Burns on my fingers
You’ll never see
Griping and moaning
I complain to no one
With a pull that strong
You’re bound to slow time
You’ve bound me my dime
I can’t be untied
Submission
I’ll sit here and die
Listen to me
To the words I tell you
Not what I say
The WORDS I tell you
Assume
You’re right
A nightmare or a dream
You tell me?

Silently they crept
From hallway up stairs
While silently I slept
In complete unawares
Nightmares did ravish
While discussions of madness
Flowed between lover and friend
Their plans executed
Our love now diluted
I lay in the darkness alone
Granting forgiveness
She screamed out “What is this?”
“We must follow our paths on our own”
I do not know the ending
Though doom seems impeding
I still dream every night every hour
Dreams of reunion
Not suffering intrusion
Oh what a beautiful world

I’m sorry but your card’s been denied
Insufficient funds she informed
She told me my account’s been closed
I will not wander aimlessly as a poor man
I will open a new account
I will not hoard my treasure to myself out of fear
I will invest in something else
But always she will have a a part of my treasure
And I a part of hers
I’ve invested in her
Regardless of my share of profit
It was a good investment
I have no doubt she will prosper

Beat me up I said
Break me down
Build me up I said
Burn me down
Smells like fire I said
Too late now
Clear the house I said
We run now
You run left she said
I’ll run right
There’s nothing left she said
Doesn’t feel right
Don’t hold on she said
Or you’ll drown
I let go she said
I won’t drown
Say Goodbye we said
This time’s gone
Yes, farewell we said
We were gone
Lessons learned we said
Not time lost
Keep your path we said
Don’t get lost

With a crutch tucked in the pit of my heart
So began my longest days
Limping from a shattered past
His eyes did meet my gaze
To this day I cannot tell you
What notion crossed my mind
When I greeted the devil
Took his hand
And claimed his heart as mine
He led me to salvation
In the bottom of a broken can
My piercing cries his lullabies
My body his demand
Til I escaped to a far off place
Where the rocks ran through my veins
Eyes full of jade I cried my way
Back to this unholy land
But now I stand before you
With a knife lay in my hand
On it’s blade reads “love”
And it’s strong enough
To cut down that bastard man
I’ll cut down that bastard man

No One, No one, it’s no one, I’m no one
Send me his troubles
Swimming in covers
In dreams tucked away
Fantasies against heavy eyelids
I said tomorrow but tomorrow is fading
Wine glasses still hanging
Shirt on the floor
I came and I went
Rush out the door
Home Home Home
To Sleep

Docility Doses
Wrapped in white
Merry Loneliness
Itchy Itchy Itchy
Glaaaaazed
Arranged to pray
Orange tower church
Led by Pastor Cotton
“Only one more set”
Said God to the supervisor
But one night emptied the church
The Doses slipped into the Void
Down they Went
Down they Went
Put him to rest
Til God said
“We can help him no more”

Let her in?
You’re crazy!
Banter banter
Said the pen
Just to burn
Said the page
Smoky words
Dusty Diaries
Time is endless
All pages are empty
In the end
All letters are gone
In the beginning
All notes are nothing
Time is all
And I am nowhere

Usefully: Obscurity
Words are all
Imagination
Waves are all
Inspiration
Pulling, Spitting, Thrashing
Violent Rewards
Penny for your pain
Sanity for your soul

The fear did it
The wine did it
No it didn’t
I did it
Face turned towards the smog
Eyes filled with fog
Red lines
Cracked
Salt stained cheeks
I did it
I did it

Slept with content
Stable content but a little bent
Sent word to the leader that I needer
Feeder me see if she pleases
Or just teases
No dice
Back to the silk cave
Swim in silk waves with hands black
Fight scream clutch plead
And now we wait for the scythe

I should be writing
But instead I'm writing
And it falls at your feet
Laced questions
Felt more like late night suggestions
On how not to sleep
And that's where you left me
Without resolution
Only anxiety.

Once there were days
Where my soul could bleed
Pouring out of my skull
Through your fingers
Dancing in my hair
I'm lost I tell you
With no one to answer
My pleas for direction
I'm misdirected
Don't you get it
Fucked up
My head split
Open
Groping for a notion
Notice this ocean
Empty and broken
Known as indulgence
I don't exist
Any more
Resurrect me
I address you
Personally
As the levy begins to give
Bring me insanity
Anything
To feel again
To feel
Loved

One island
Fifty men
Hundreds of crimes
Night and day
Knives to necks
Start fights
Shipwrecks
Plundered Pillaged
Burned our village
Breeding Men
Without Souls
Holes for Hearts
Hands bring
Death blows
Death tolls
Rising
Solutions
Unknown

Transportation
Alleviation
Break my patience
Satiate them
Given the chance
She screams
Left foot right foot
Her foot my foot
Lines in sand kicked with fury
Like lines down my back
Still searing her passion
Skin beneath cuticles
She calls it a trophy

Commandeering
The engineer brings
Ratchets wrenches
Not to patch up fences
Hence this
Urgency
To be
Near but fleeting
See
He’s got agendas

Gimmie gimmie
Red velvet shred case
Bubble wrap finger tips
Pop pop skin rips

Oh look it rhymes
Sorry I can’t appease
Haughty snatch from my hand
And a pretentious once over
No comments no feedback
Gimmie gimmie gimmie
Roped off for her father
Cliché but why bother
Her friends turn backs
No longer confidant
Now only daughter

Talk to me
You're beginning to fade
I still wake up to your eyes
So you must be out there
Pillaging my fantasies
Fleeing so quickly
With dawn at your back
You're a rampant warrior
Directionless, I find you stumbling
But always prepared for battle
Show yourself
I'm losing grip
You've lost it

A rebel without a cause?
Fuck that
I’m just a man with many flaws
One more shot to the jaw
I blink
Heart sinks
Applause
Come to
Stripped of everything but my ego
But we know
There’s not much there for me to use
So
Crawl away
Find the skins
Pick the sticks
Release
Day to day
Get my ends
Get my hits
Complete