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Hurricane
Deep in my heart a sadness spins,
And like everything else, it wants to live.
So it grows, turns, blows, and then
Smashes through the shore of my skin.
Out it comes with an angry roar,
Sadness becomes a wrathful lord.
Blood is black, heart is cold,
Biting words come crashing forth.
Why does sadness ever begin?
I only know when it ends
With desolation all around,
Anger unsafe, mind unsound
Alone
Why would I want to be
With someone who abandoned me?
I'd rather be alone than with someone
Who wouldn't stay through sickness,
Just in health, so
Now that I will make it through
Why would I want to be with you?
If you abandoned my soul
I'd rather be alone.
You did, didn't you
Hopeless Design
To give up hope but not in despair
Is when the eye sees clearly defined
The picture of what is most real.
Where expectations, judgments and dogmatic lies
Cloud less the vision, and
Is not wisdom's sight the line of least resistance?
Hope springs from the spirit to be alive
Through optimism, instinct, religion and drive, but
At what cost? When truth is sacrificed
Hope is lost in a lie
Truly Always
You lived without knowing a love secure,
Would love be here tomorrow?
Would it occur?
How heavily my heart weighs
Like dying black flowers
Knowing you knew never
The meaning of always
Always will your heart be renewed
When you say the words,
Come to me truly.
And always will my heart bouquet
Blossom securely
Knowing you learned forever
The meaning of always
Breathe Easy
Why did everything abandon me?
I feel myself slow sinking
With no friends left, no life vest,
No hope in my chest
To lift me, go with me
And help me breathe easy
Come sweet spirit, come through to me
If ever I need to feel the peace.
Rest me, bless me,
Kiss and caress me,
Lift me, go with me
And help me breathe easy
What a friend we have deep inside!
The eternal spring fountain,
The spark divine that is us
And is somehow with us
At the same time,
Oh! what a friend we have deep inside
Butterfly Blues
Butterflies can be caught, but
Do you really want to catch one?
You wish them sought, but
Is beauty in a collection?
Wings free thought, but
What an abomination!
Is it not unnatural to capture freedom?
Cell Of Myself
How to solve the problem of existence?
I am just a cell of myself
Conflicted with conflicts,
Barred by guilt and fear.
I feel like a murderer of me.
To build a home instead of a cell,
A carpenter will do well.
That is who to seek
Come With Beauty
If we come with beauty
And add to what there is to give,
Though we know not its name
As the form is still hidden,
A shape is born fashioned in goodness.
For we come with beauty
And each gives a gift to give,
Small and simply precious, synchronized
Yet wild and impassioned
Desire Reason
I try to deny my deep desire
But she slaps me back
Not to deny her,
The sting on my cheek
Heated with her fire
Commands me completely.
So I try to forget my reasoned mind
But the desire reached
Never satisfies,
Her sting on my cheek fades away
Till reason comes back
To rule the day
Dungeon
Across the threshold of a heavy oak door
Your eyes adjust to the darkness,
But even quicker wind whispers
As the door slams locked behind you,
Then to the horror of your soul you see
Human bones chained against the wall,
One hand holds a bound leather book
While the other points directly at you,
Taking the book from its bony grip
You spy your name as author scrawled,
And although your eyes pain from dimness
Every word you read imprisoned
Eclipsed
How completely estranged and unwanted I wane
Further into a lonesome moon melted away
As earthbound blues drown my face
Under darkened hues of eclipsed space
That fade behind an isolated sun.
Should I curse the earth for whom I reflected
Sunrays luminescent? No,
Sun not me is what she needs, and
Tomorrow she must have him
Einstein's Comedy Act
The humorous anecdote of relativity begins
Twice upon a time two men were looking
At the same clock ticking when
Tick...Boo! Tock...Hiss!
The joke bombs
Empty Ashes
When we left we had to leave
The emptiness of nothing
With a wish to be alive
That grew into a seed of light,
This such seed so large it grew
To fill the void with a bloom
Rising up monumental
And spread for love so immoral,
Till arms and legs we once enjoyed
Come crashing back into the void
Then oh! the joy, oh! the sadness
When we empty into ashes
Ever So Gladly
Why look for something when it only finds you?
It doesn't like to be seen by eyes piercing,
Nor does it like to be heard by ears straining,
And it certainly dislikes a frantic mind searching.
One just relaxes to be in its company, and
It shall find you ever so gladly,
Ever so gladly
Accept This Rule
There is always an exception to the rule
Except this rule
Which is the exception to the rule
Eyes Of Flame
How my eyes in pain sparkled,
What had I grown to be?
And how I gazed into the fire
Oh! so anxiously
The fire was my heart.
Lost became my sight unseen
Blinded by this sun
When your love bandaged my eyes
Burned from staring so long
Into the fire of my heart.
And though the fire still remains
My eyes can sparkle without flames,
Yes! my eyes can now sparkle
Without burning flames
Fantasy Of Color
Light strikes her like a prism of ice
Scattering a fantasy of color,
Till this rainbow like a melting halo
Slowly drips down her smooth shoulders,
The warmed ice recedes with an intrigue
As if her clothes were being stripped,
Oh! to be the solar source, the force that melts
Her frozen winter ice away,
To penetrate her soul till water flows
And her naked moans glow fire
Just Open
Like the Garden of Eden
Where wisdom once was eaten
Through the open mouths of Eve and Adam
Our wisdom opens, too.
Through legs unfolded,
Pass hearts in blossom,
To minds receptive.
This wisdom opens our eyes, but
Unlike the Garden of Eden
You show me your nakedness unashamed
As I exclaim why we are here.
To sanctify such glory,
Rise to heights heroically,
To pass through our bodies wholly
Till death collapses down.
Then through remnants of our vision
Minds uplift on wings of wisdom
To an existence not here,
Not there, not anywhere,
Just open
Kept And Saved
A magnet hanging by a string
To pull up loose change and things
Lost in places fingers can't reach
Like the ring you saved
Or the stranger I was
Hidden away,
Then kept and saved,
What others can't see
Or don't bother to reach deep
For that which seems unsure
And valued obscure
Like the stranger I was
Hidden away,
Then kept and saved,
Though foolish of me to laugh
The last time I
Eyed your keepsakes set aside
Unrealizing why you keep
When that stranger was me
Hidden away,
Then kept and saved
My Apollo
Life is lived sound asleep
As I would rather sleep away,
Oh! my sleepy soul awake
Come enjoy the glorious day,
Don't I want to see the sun
Rising high radiantly?
Don't I want to see what comes?
Would I rather be asleep?
Then sleep my sleepy soul asleep
Sleep away the sunny day,
But when I wake from dreams tonight
My Apollo is gone
Nothing Wrong With That
Oh! Angels
There is something here to help
If you beseech such loving care.
Do you have a wish sincere?
And is that wish just as just?
Then ask the angels with all your soul
May my wish come to pass,
And the angels will design it to unfold
Older
How much older one grows
To see things differently than before,
Though change comes on like a slow day
It suddenly is here,
But not from any success in life
Won like a dollar earned,
Wisdom comes with failure
And slowly is it learned
One By One
Lines of waves crash one by one
Into shore until they're gone
Washed up from the far out deep
Below a sky of purple-pink,
So the sun layer by layer
Sets in sinking waves of color
Darker by the quarter-hour
Above a sea of ocean water
Poison and Pain
The consequences of our fights are
Severe. Depression and fear,
As you become the source of my
Dependency. Highly very likely,
What is the cure?
Poison. Needled into my skin,
Your face is a painful symbol
Tattooed. The shape of my sin,
And all that's left to do is forgive
You. Poison and pain
Probably Don't
Damned if you do,
Dumb if you don't.
How this dilemma
Gets to your goat.
Should you follow the impulse
Or deny desire?
Either way to go
Adds fuel to the fire.
Damned if you do because
Conscience gets torched.
Dumb if you don't because
Life is too short.
Best thing to do?
Probably don't
Rain Upon A Flower
Bring forth the form of a flower
From folds of flesh, your blossom
With dews of impassioned water
Wrought from the well of birth
May my mouth quench the earth
Like heavenly rain upon a flower
That rises then as ghostly vapor
Till water gives birth to water
Senseless Thought
To agree with senselessness is to affirm
Truth of what must be,
A senseless world defined by the senses
Luxuriously lavished extreme,
Where slight perception like a stream
Floods pools of enchanted mind.
Such sensation wrought by the muses
Touch, taste, sight, scent and sound,
Invoke dreams like stars yield constellations
When imagination with reason lines.
How, then, we affirm when
Design is religiously taught, but
To agree with the nonsensical
Is the meaning of senseless thought
Sentenced
God abandoned heaven
To be like you and me,
God went back shrouded
Holes in hands and feat.
It was me who swung the hammer
With a force incredibly,
It was me who paid him back
For creating iniquity.
Did God not know in the garden
I would eat forbiddenly?
God knew what I would do
And to death he sentenced me
Sirenia
She charms my sail with her song
Like some southern wind warm and strong
That stretches cloth taut and long
Billowing out what she has wrought
A spray of sea so salty sweet
She sounds to take a taste of me,
Her song commands what in me glistens
To come my love, come and listen
Lines of force submerge me down
To depths so deep, will I drown?
But oh! she tastes in my mouth
Salty sweet and oh! so south
Social Organization
Capitalism is a skyscraper
Risen to the almighty dollar
Like some holy monolith
Higher than the steeple
That will one day cower
As did the steeple
To a tower risen higher
Hoodwinking the people
Spirit Sail
Sacred spirit is the wind,
Do you tell wind where to go?
No, your spirit sails
Where wind blows.
One secret sets your mind
Like a sail is ready when
The spirit ascends,
And your mind sail captures the wind.
A ready mind is open,
So close your eyes and feel wind rise.
You're set to sail
Anywhere the spirit guides
Steed To Your Love
May I be a steed to your love?
My back is forged strong for such purpose
With a smooth, hard, masculine surface
And long angled limbs ready to spring
To the tempered command of a goddess.
Your fire rein holds the ring
Stretched taut over captive inches
As I anxiously wait to be ridden
In the manner you please,
May I be a steed to your love?
Stone Alter
The blackened bruise slowly fades
From the heavy weighted chain
That smacked my back as I walked away.
Little did I know
How hard you could throw
Angered, impassioned, and in love.
What was my response?
All that I could offer,
Sacrifice upon your stone alter.
Where murdered by my own hand lay
The man who could turn
And walk away
Summer Evening Festival
As sun sets deep in turquoise and amber
The day surrenders but we do not sleep,
We gather together in summer splendor
To dance and sing.
We are not alone unlike the dreary winter
When short days and heated homes
Trapped our bones inside a cell,
But not now.
Summer's glow upon unveiled skin
Brings us together as we fall in love
At the summer evening festival
Sun And Moon
To shine like the sun
But oh! how the eyes pain
When gazed upon.
Who befriends the sun?
Only one
For she loves how his light
Makes her shine tonight,
And oh! how the eyes are eased
When she so lovely is seen
Supply And Demand
Let me find the rarest model
Starve her skinny as an arrow
Dress her in some fine apparel
Then advertise her lovely photo
Till her look is quite demanded
By the fools who spend abandoned
Trying to buy the scarcity
Of a look they can't achieve
The Abyss
We follow madmen into the abyss
Rather than blindly without a vision
For whom to better lead that distant journey?
For whom to better lead our destiny?
The abyss is madness to the sane, but
The abyss to madmen is bliss.
An abyss,
Madness,
Madmen,
Bliss
This Difference
I see you walking some street all the time
Though quickly realized it's not you I see,
Just some woman who seems a resemblance.
Perhaps her coat invokes your remembrance
Or her hair is cut the same. Either way, it's never you
For you left long ago never to return.
This difference, then, consoles my release,
You never mistake me with such ease
Thomas
How can I possibly doubt
When I see with my own eyes
And hear with my own ears,
Perhaps it's fear?
Yes, fear. I'm always afraid
For if doubt is taken away
I am too when you
Press my fingers to the wound
Three Score Years And Ten
Summer lasted far too long,
I prayed a prayer to bring the fall
Till crickets sang out an autumn song
And peace came to us all.
The trees, leaves, a western wind,
Winter in the distance.
Death for us all
Winter never seemed to end,
For three score years and ten
I prayed a prayer that spring might send
A warming to the heartland.
For trees, leaves, an eastern wind,
Thunder in the distance.
Life for us all
Bigotry
Who cares if we come from monkeys?
Monkeys are my best friends.
They fuck, fight, laugh all night
And shit out their rear ends
Just like you and me
Unfathomably Deep
Take the smallest thing in hand
Then slowly start to descend,
When your sights grow very small
You'll see the thing goes on and on
Are we not as lost inside
Depths that grow incredibly high?
Existence is unfathomably deep
And infinite is its every piece
Wand Of Words
With a captivating caress upon my ear
So like piano notes through and through
My soul is thrilled when I hear you, so
Sing those notes so sticky sweet
As I await what music brings
When wand of words is magically waved
And I'm taken away,
Take me away
Weary But Contrite
Green descended in the form of spring
Covering the naked brown woods
Overnight in the color of life
Lavender then descended
In the form of a blossomed flower patch
Growing under parted leaves bathed in light
Till I descended in the form of a repentant
Kneeling down in green and lavender
Weary but contrite
When You Pulled My Hair
Silence descended from your outreached hand
When thoughts were twisted to a sudden halt
By subtle fingers touching my hair.
More powerful than anything to be said
How still my mind stood while I sat quietly,
But with a twist as unexpected
You grasped my hair, pulled, and silenced the silence.
It was my heart that could be heard
Responding with a burst
Winter Rose
Winter rose froze below
Animated trees swaying,
Winter rose now I know
Truth of love staying,
Winter rose even though
Crystal sparkles glow snowing,
Winter rose never goes
Away from me staying
Worn Out
Someone once told me the same,
"I'm worn out", because
With her I didn't change.
Like you she begged me to be
Different, to unburden myself, but
I couldn't. Strangely with you
I did, and yet I still hear
The same old tired expression,
"I'm worn out", but
With you I changed.
What, then, is different?
Yes
How we desire to say Yes, but
Entangled in the slow nature of time
We otherwise learn to say No,
I may not dream.
For such folly here is pain, and as for hope?
Desolation till I learn negation,
And when spirit negates what awaits?
Absolutely nothing.
We want to affirm, and last night you did
When your lips whispered over the word,
Yes, and my ear understood
Angels Of Light
And the Serpent hungrily said:
The apple is knowledge,
Eat it and know thyself.
Be separate from the whole,
Be counted beyond the one.
"Eat the apple and come forth into being"
And the empty One said:
If you eat the apple, one becomes two
And you shall be cast out of my garden
Into the duality of existence.
You shall know thyself because
You shall know pleasure from pain,
Birth from death, good from evil.
"Eat the apple and know thy mortality"
And the Angels naturally said:
We wish to be alive though this will separate,
Make us timed and counted,
Give joy and sadness.
Grant the rebellion like a fist gripped tight,
Open and outpour the angels of light
Expanding into emptiness
186,000 miles per second
Till all those years later
The earth we discover.
"We wish to be alive!"