We failed to see the sunrise
We were blinded by the night
The beasts watched in splendor
But we cast our backs to the light
We watched as she descended
The day turned into dusk
We did not miss her mighty glow
We did not miss her touch
We longed for dawn but found only night
We wished to see but were failed by sight
We sought the day but avoided the light
We craved her glow but hid in the dark
Until one day we stopped our cries
and looked around to see
Free from all her penetrating eyes
Free from all her needs
Her light had failed to see us
and neither ourselves could we see
We fear to see the sunrise
Illumined by by her sight
In the dark we love to hide our deeds
We have learned to love our plight
Her radiant eyes will shine again
But we fear her gentle kiss
Dawn will bring about the light
And we are the darkness
Mar 21, 2023
Mar 21, 2023 at 3:22 AM UTC
I have told many a passerby
I have shouted it from the rooftop
I swore to myself today would be the day
That I act a man
Only to have my voice become weak
My mouth become dumb
Unable to speak
Mesmerized by your sight.
Terrifed by your sight.
Love is not a feeling.
But a drug.
With each thought pulling me deeper and deeper
into this addiction.
Until my mind is consumed by you.
Flooded with ecstasy
Yet lost from the thought of not having you
I say I will tell you
What lies in my heart.
But I know the truth is that tonight
Like all the nights before
Will be spent in solitude
Alone with you in my mind
With only myself to blame.
And
The only ones who will hear of my love
Once again
Are strangers in the night.
Jun 10, 2017
Jun 10, 2017 at 7:13 PM UTC
She is the gentle breeze on a summer day
She is the warmth of a fire on a winter night
She is a light in this darkness
She is an oasis in this desert.
She is the fire that now burns in my chest.
She is the air I breathe
She is beauty.
She is love.
She is life.
Winter has broken.
I feel the warmth of spring.
I watch as the world turns to green
Filling again with life.
Waiting for Her to return.
May 25, 2017
May 25, 2017 at 1:52 PM UTC
Destroy my ignorance
Annihilate my arrogance
Scream my sins on the mountain top
So the world might know of the evil I have done.
So the dead might speak one last whisper
Cleansing me of my debt to them.
In the presence of something so pure
I feel as if my soul lies in the depths of depravity
My heart has become a stone
stained black by the actions of a lost soul.
Send my message to the dead
So they might forgive my transgression
In this life or the next
Be my savior
Open my eyes to the wrong I have done
And although you look like me
Your heart is as white as the mountain top.
Save me from what I have become
Save me from what I have done
Speak to me through the darkness of the night.
I do not deserve your gentle kindness
But allow me to save you
When you have used your own heart
To wipe mine clean.
May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017 at 12:57 AM UTC
Take my hand
Feel the warmth flow through you
As my life fades away
Keeping you warm
Through the silent winter
There are no words
There is no sound
Only the whisper of my heart
Growing quiet
Growing cold
As the beating of your heart sounds like a trumpet
Glowing as bright as the moon
Although each day it grows more dim
My sun lights your way
Through the dark winter
Sit with me
Absorb this pleasant silence
Feel the vibrance of my love
Filling your empty soul
Leaving a shell in my heart
So that you may love again
And find another who will guide you
Through the lonely winter
Look into my eyes
They have become heavy
Grey from the cold
As yours shine with vibrance
Your night sky fills with light
As my stars fall to the Earth.
Although we are consumed by silence
Our souls speak
In words only we can understand
Although I grow weak
Take my soul
So that it may keep you company
Through the silent winter of our hearts.
May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017 at 12:38 AM UTC
Wake from your dream.
Depart that eternal isolation and open your eyes.
The world waits for you as you repeat your cycle .
"Come with me"
"I have much to show you"
He says as he shackles your feet to the ground
Trapped, you can only stare as the world turns to grey.
Mindless souls pass by as you cry out for help.
For they cannot hear you, consumed by their own cycle.
Indifferent to your lost soul.
She enters your sight in the distance.
An angel in this desolate place.
The world comes to life again.
As colors fill the evening sky
You beg him to unlock the shackles.
But just as quickly as she appears
she fades into the horizon.
Taking all the vibrancy of the world with her.
As this wasteland fades to darkness.
You grow weak.
Your eyes shut.
Pull her closer.
Embrace her in your arms.
Indulge in this love.
This blissful illusion.
Wishing it could last forever.
Watch as your shackles are removed
For this dream is better than the world.
This cruel world.
This indifferent world.
May 20, 2017
May 20, 2017 at 2:16 AM UTC
Walk with me through this barren desert.
As we search for the life that was once here.
The forest that filled this land vanished
As nature left in search of better ground
Only to consume itself
Leaving behind this barren wasteland.
Although we traverse together, our hearts and minds are miles apart.
Consumed by our own thoughts
Our own pain.
It is all that can fill the emptiness of this land
We drink but thirst.
We eat but hunger.
Our agony is as filling as the void of this desert.
Mindless we walk as lost souls fill this world
Traveling with no destination
Walking this same path every day.
Our lives are consumed by this desert.
It is all we see.
It is all we know.
May 20, 2017
May 20, 2017 at 1:45 AM UTC
You are not afraid of the darkness
But what hides within.
You are not afraid to move on
But to accept the reality of loss.
You are not afraid of heights
But falling from them.
You are not afraid to talk to her
But of her believing you are a fool.
You are not afraid to love
But to not be loved in return.
You are not afraid to speak
But mockery of what might be spoken.
You are not afraid to die
But of ignorance of where the journey ends.
Fear devours rational minds.
Preying on the unknown
Making our imaginations run rampant.
Take heart. Courage dwells within you.
For it takes but thirty seconds to open wide the door to a life of bliss.
Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 at 12:56 PM UTC
The flames light up the winter sky
shining as bright as the day the world died.
Memories of you add fuel to the fire
The flames only grow higher and higher.
The inferno cannot be quenched
The flames I have tried to drench
To no avail; soon it will consume my soul
Surround me completely and swallow me whole
One of these days, the inevitable will come
And take me back to the place I am from.
Tell the world my last goodbye
Echoed from my heart the day your love died.
I'll tell all of you from that place above
That all I've ever learned from love
Is douse the blaze before it spreads
Or the life you love, you will love to dread.
Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 at 12:19 PM UTC
Smoke hides a ghost in the empty chair
Of what was, what is, and what will be
No man can tell what lies behind
And to my senses I have become blind.
Singe the flesh of my lips with your flame
My troubled minds contain all your pain
Hidden in the tabernacle of the unholy
My everything, my all.
My one and only.
Love, hate, pity and joy
Gods that create and gods that destroy
Insensitive and cold they send their wrath down
"Hurrah! Hurrah!", They say as we drown.
But Dead and broken souls immune to emotions
Only Scoff with apathy at the horrible notions.
All great nations eventually fall
Why not the great nation of your soul?
Crumbling before corruption and greed
Insensitive to all human need.
For the best of mankind have the furthest drop.
And there is nothing you can do for the process to stop.
Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 at 12:14 PM UTC