Absolute Zero: Episodic Series

Sore throat and aching muscles
as we painfully walk up the green hill
as our knees bend outwards and sideways
as the flames at the peak turn into ice
a flowery land atop an iceberg
a miracle for us to fly to the stars
as the stars are ice, gas and flame
it's absolute zero, never win this game

Seeping through the dusk and dawn
the sacred horizon, tired, it yawns

I fell on my knees
on the pebbled red carpet
the next time it'll bleed
an absolute hero

Staring out the window
a land of blue and ice
a frozen lake, a bloodied hill
a polar bear, naked and dead
as the blackbirds fall like snow
and the goldfishes swim like a painting
like a tearful piece of art
conceived at absolute zero

The lovely little ants
their deaths mean nothing
for their numbers are absolute
and their strength is absolute

And everything in this world
will soon turn to frost
stay tuned for the next episode
of absolute zero.

Absolute Zero: Autumn

Walk walk walk

trees collapse into rain

fly through the stratosphere

burst through the coldest roof

mutate icicles

and lick some popsicles

with an resolute sickle

at absolute zero

We're the heroes of the ice age

sitting on a chair

sipping on coffee

as the chirps break our hearts

green and purple forests

all frozen to the leaves

and a flood of absolute zero

burned the frost

Light in dark snow

night in day's flow

graveyard of shivers

cold, oh so very cold!

frostbitten brain

and hypothermic heart

the second ice age begins

at absolute zero

Numb at the toes

and the fingers can't move

talk talk talk

until the lips fall off

as this is a walk

into a cold dark place

It was the autumn wind

at absolute zero.

Kids

The timber's limber, slimmer, swimmer
greener, we're freer, leeches of glimmer
weepers creeping behind the seekers
we kids are but the adults' peekers

Shiver, shiver, bathed in glitter
River, river, we watch you slither
Wither, wither, all are winners
No one will be fraudulent sinners

Kids these days
with our blank slates
flaunting to adults

Kids these days
with our fragmented thoughts
piecing the puzzle of adults

Kids these days
will ponder
"Aren't we all just kids these days?"