Frustration mounts,
And with it comes
An unholy fury
To struggle
In everything you do,
That is hardship
To want something more
Is impossible
Is dreaming
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 10:56 PM UTC
Walking down the beach,
And looking at the waves,
They roll in and out,
In and
Out
Like the ebb and flow of time
They flow,
A great cycle,
Everpresent,
We flow-
And wax-
And wane
People live
They contribute
Find a meaning
Then go on
Like the ocean meaning changes
Ebbs and flows
In and
Out
I must find my meaning
Among these flowing tides,
And when my tide goes,
I too must
Sail on.
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 10:56 PM UTC
Along a softly babbling stream
Moss covered trunks silently lean
Sunlight pours from on high down
Flies now idly ply around
A fisherman -me- on the bank sits
Floater bobbing, teasing fish
Sparrows idly flit softly by
While above the clouds now softly fly
The bugs, they flit from here to there,
While plants their flowers slowly bare,
Mosquitoes sound their droning whine
While stream trout nibble at baited line
Dappled bark and shaded stream
Memory hazy like a dream
I wish to travel back, back there
That timeless place, the Snake River
And this my idle classroom dream,
My heaven, fishing by a stream
Spins round and round my head at night
I'll go and grab my pole-first light
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 10:56 PM UTC
Pictures of war all around me I see
Pick up a gun and fight to be free
I see a soldier face down on the ground
Red White and Blue sparkles flash all around
Movies of killing, men dying all round
Snappy recruiters with pamphlets abound
Somewhere away, a carbomb explodes
While at home on TV: "Lets lock and Load!"
Freedom fighters and invaders
Infidels and patriots
Fighting round and round
Shootng at each other
Till they all fall down
Down
Down
.
.
.
.
Dead.
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 10:56 PM UTC
In dark of night
A moment bright
Upon our couch
In the twilight
And in this place
I see your face
A stolen kiss
Our little bliss
Ill hold your hand
And you'll squeeze mine
Ill trace your brow
You'll line my chin
Our moment will end
There shall be more
Your heart I'll mend
You're my amor
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 10:55 PM UTC
Watch how we dance and sway
Look at us dance today
Smiles on our faces-
We dance without care,
Knowing we must beware
Look at the people watching
They don't know who we are
No-one is laughing and
No-one is smiling
Watching us dance and sway
Watch how we dance and sway
No-one will look our way
They find us repulsive
They want us to leave
Never to sigh and breathe
Never to dance again
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 10:51 PM UTC
I do not have
A happy family...
There have been nights
Where I go to bed
With my ears still ringing--
--A lot of shouting, yelling, and screaming
It happens for to many reasons,
Which is why it never ends
But sometimes in a rare, rare dream,
Its singing I hear instead
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 10:50 PM UTC
I told a friend the truth today,
I'd lied to him for years,
I approached with trepidation-
Quite full of my own fears.
But my friend, he said he didn't care,
And things have gone on as before,
And never once in all time hence,
Could I have asked for one thing more.
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 10:49 PM UTC
It strikes me as I watch tv,
The callousness of culture:
We laugh or cry as the whim takes us,
But never really care,
We culturally don't dare.
But is it 'cause we're sheltered?
Or merely 'cause we're bored?
We watch our TV passively,
massive drivel shoveled freely,
It turns our minds to rubble.
But is it any better
To believe something so completely
That a slightly different opinion
Is neatly pushed aside...
Discounted as lies...
Or messily dies?
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 10:49 PM UTC
Farewell, dear friend,
The ember of your love demands too much,
For your momentary pleasure I am forced to pay in blood,
For the privilege of people I will never meet again.
Farewell, dear friend,
For I have sacrificed too much for you,
On the coldest of nights I have sheltered you,
And I have given you all I have, even as you poisoned me.
Farewell, dear friend,
For you have estranged me from others who love me more,
Amd I know even from within your chemical embrace,
That your knives are busily whirling in my chest.
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 10:47 PM UTC