Beside You

Insufficient memories

Call your god or goddess

I could be your other in othering

Eyes roll back the nascent storm

If I could cure you, I won't care you

If I could care you, why should I care

Counting days with sleeping pills

Getting drowsy of you

The dry humoured you, the dewy you

Every version of you

Selfish for others

There is a bug behind the painting

Picture of you to fulfil all your wishes

In pursuit of plaisir

Your plaster and your plastic cast

Only to be recast

Only to be reframed

Within your comfortable habitat

In your comfortable garden

No light, not dark

Suddenly you are all of you and none of you

Within you and beside you at the same time

By Aran Meredith

October 2025

Sandstorm

The storm was near

The skyline bleeding

The boundaries began to break

I'm in the throe, of me

Somewhere betwixt and between

Acts of commemoration

Acts of electrification

You could just forgive forgiveness

You had to fight it, so you let go

Of the river lane

You hold on to these

Don't leave away

The dusk is not so far away

The past is not so far away

Besides the world

Outside the window

Your architectures

Your eyes are still bleeding

Soon it will be okay