Arcane Poetry A Journey Into Madness And Beyond S. Alim Reza © 2021, Unica Communications All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For p e r m i s s i o n r e q u e s t s , c o n t a c t [email protected]. Unica Communications C/O Joven Tel, Inc. 236 Pritchard Rd. Hamilton, ON L8W 3P7 Canada unicacommunications.com Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-7776377-5-0 First Printing December 2021 Cover Design: Stanislav Agafonov @luv_draft Preface 11 Dichotomy 14 Profane 15 A Bard 15 Portfolio 16 A World of Secrets 16 In The Darkness 17 We Walk A Fine Line 18 Inside Out 18 F- Spiral 19 A Balance of Balances 20 Our house is crumbling around us 21 Visionary 22 Ever Stop…And Think? 23 People 24 Fear 25 Living in a world 26 On the Verge of Change 27 Paranoid Fork in the Road 28 Foundation for the Wall around My Heart 29 I like Fluoride 30 I don't want a wife and kids 31 7 am 32 Economic Warfare 33 Art is Born 34 Alley Cats 35 Hipsters 36 Hedonist Sloth 37 Ragamuffin 37 Blank 38 I Care 39 Our meeting was hardly a coincidence 40 Love and Masturbation 41 The Girl Who Ate Ants 42 Turning My Gaze 43 A Common Thread 44 A Soliloquy 45 Departing Introduction 46 Coma 47 Samhain Summer 47 The Darkness Within 48 Time 50 Blood Rose 51 Forgotten Son 52 The World Is a leftover Collection of peoples 54 Convergence Chamber 54 Dog Chasing Tail 55 I want to pass out 56 Mantra 57 UNLEASH 58 Dynamic Static 58 Purgatory 60 Artistic License 62 Shadows: Illuminate the Darkness 63 A Suicide Note – 64 1000 Ways to Break a Bottle 65 High On Death 66 Metametaphor 67 Macabre Fandango 68 Follow the white cat 69 Hedonist Sloth, part 2 70 Dreams of Darkness 71 Perception’s Plane 72 Evolved Despair 74 Soundless Vibration 75 Frigid 76 Headache 77 Fleeting 78 Bug 79 Equally Disoriented 80 Coming Apart at the Seams 81 Petty Is The Love 82 My parents are dead. 83 A padded life 84 ~~ 85 Scenes of T- City 86 Dark Prince 88 Horns and Pitchfork 89 The Sword 89 Beautiful Battlefield 89 Self Loathing 90 I am a total fraud 90 Origami Heart 91 I hate this place. 92 I am a slouch, lazy person 93 Almost a Thief 93 The Depressed Women 94 Death 95 Love and Gambling 96 Oblivion 97 Kink 97 Amidst Approaching Evil 98 Soul Vampire 99 Visions of the Past 101 Why do we fear the dark? 102 Drowning Pool 103 Lucky Bamboo 103 A Life Meant to be Lived 104 Ascent of Dissent 105 All That Is 106 Cockroach King 107 Wits End 108 Lines of Code 109 A Monster 110 If I am damned 110 Home 111 20 112 An Inner Debate of Destiny 114 I am a poet 115 Content Being Miserable 116 Blue Gray 117 A Thousand Lifetimes 118 Renaissance 119 The earth sucks me into her womb 119 The First to Awaken 120 Nine Lives 121 Every Moment Lived 121 Adulthood: Day One 122 Quit 122 Self Education 123 Sunshine through the Rain 124 Hu 125 My Om 127 Grand Scheme 128 Living Anthropometry 129 Mind Palace 129 Love 130 Love (#2) 132 Truth 134 Tongue Tied 135 I am a man 135 Transcendent Life Preserver 136 Mind Bender 137 Placebo 138 Yang 138 What if the heaven you dream of 139 Disconnect 139 Ego is the entire problem with humanity 140 Peacock Mirror 140 Third eye 140 I hold up my thought 141 I am the target of your hatred for yourself 142 How do we go on? 143 I feel like I’m just a mirror for others’ emotions 143 Grit & Sanctity 144 A List 144 The Sunshine 145 4:20 146 The not-so obvious frustrating rift between thinking and feeling 147 She’s my anti- 147 This Love I Feel 148 Desire 149 An interruption in my life 150 Near Misses 150 Hunger 152 How Long Can We Hunt? 153 Prophetic Inebriate 153 Side Rant 154 Coalescence 155 I believe in reincarnation. 156 Primordial Religion 157 Shaman 157 Music is a Colourful Voice 158 Why now? 159 Mutable Air 160 I don't consider it as I've lost close friends. 160 Rose 161 Beaten Down 162 Who Am I? 163 Disturbing the Peace 164 Humanity 165 Anus 166 Seeing you today 167 The Sombre Silence of Suburbia 168 Natural High 168 Personal Best 169 I hold up my staff, supporting my lantern 170 Motivating The Universe 171 My ego died 173 Don’t run 173 Microcosmic Convalescence 174 Our relationship with time has changed 175 I Am The Light 176 Bake a Fish 177 Belief 177 You don’t need me to tell you about God 178 It’s ALL Imaginary 179 Don’t be greedy in Healing 180 The Universe is Balanced 180 I pray for justice for all who are oppressed 181 The Inheritance 182 Missing Travel 183 Electricity in the Air 184 If I were to die today 184 Every day I grow 185 My mother’s bastards 186 I am a mean bastard 186 Sometimes 187 Letting Loose 187 I Despise All The Lies 188 Piss On The Ashes 189 Song of Life 190 The "point" of life 190 What I’m here to do 191 I write because I feel alone 191 Writing is like giving life 192 1 Secret of Kether 193 Depression From Missing Pieces 194 Evolutionary Creationist 195 Face changing in the mirror 196 Feelings of Inadequacy 197 I think loose paper and pen are best 198 Ideas are like air 199 Lest We Forget 199 Seeker's School of Mystery 200 Fibonacci Curve 201 F-Curve Scale 202 Self care is the antithesis of self doubt 203 Tear Down The Edifice 204 The Flood Vision 205 (I Am) 206