Malefaction
Lie awake the dark to come
Running skies across the sun
Called to sleep as life to death
Sudden still each burning breath
I am cold, peace only to bear
Devilish heart my demons dare
Chase me under to depths below
Across a divide I dare not know
Another soul forsaken
Unto this cursed place
All for granted taken
Lost in time, disgraced
Nothing more to surrender
You gave away in your fall
Tortured world that you enter
You've reached the end of it all
Grey surrounds the weary world
No winds raise these flags unfurled
No sound to feel, sightless to see
Malefaction blur forever be
In this race of Time and Trial
Fate begrudging all the while
Sends us onward, near and far
Held on hope, Man's furthest star
Another soul forsaken
Unto this cursed place
All for granted taken
Lost in time and grace
Nothing more to surrender
You gave away in your fall
Tortured world that you enter
You've reached the end of it all
Jan 21, 2016
Jan 21, 2016 at 7:55 AM UTC
Soft pillow.
Warm blanket.
Midnight whisper.
Dreaming sound.
Pushed-back world, mind free.
Heaven welcomes you with a smile.
Jan 19, 2016
Jan 19, 2016 at 8:25 PM UTC
Kneel to the Wheel
Running away since
The day I was born
Rose up like a spark plug
My anger is my thorn
Never know until you go
How life will divide you
Kneel off onto the wheel
Of Nature as she drives you
Blood across these eyes
Burning out the highway
Endless as my thoughts I've been
Driving 12 straight days
Where does it take me?
Where does it break me?
Love crucify or save me?
Where does it take me
Oh kneel now
Kneel to the wheel
Came across a broken home
Since the day I was born
Wanted to be someone
No one since the day I was born
No, no one since I was born
Where does it take me?
Where does it break me?
Love crucify or save me?
Where does it take me
Oh kneel now
Kneel to the wheel
Running he chases me
In A look disgraces me
Empty bottles save me?
Smashed the car into a tree
And followed him to be free
In a voice I know it's he
His words they wet my sleeves
Again, again
Above put my faith in
In a moment he is gone
Lost in faithless everyone
And I kneel to the wheel
And stumble home again.
Jan 15, 2016
Jan 15, 2016 at 10:39 AM UTC
Hinged
It's a feeling of bulkiness
Gathering up the strength
But also the coordination
In front of the mirror
A certain Goliath effort for
Planning, detailing, getting affairs
In order, all in orderless care
Carbon planes rattle the
Hotel air conditioners on the 2nd
Floor below the outside balcony
Smoky white dancing lines trace
And replace a clear day view
Like so long ago when all the world
Was just a moment, just a day,
Just a boy and his thoughts
I made all the right calls to
Make sure it all goes smoothly
The plan in place and ready set
I slip off the Adidas shoelaces
And place them to the right hand
Side of the bed with the night stand with the magazine the hotel
Put out,
The Kardashians' latest baby story
About giving birth in designer high heels
The eyes all white and faded in
Too much light
The cord in place, I move the
Desk chair closer to the center of
The room, the wheels squeaking
Like the raising and lowering of the crab traps from the shore house, Long Beach days shine on
Forever ago
My feet wobble as I climb onto
The chair, that few-second elevated vertigo
Feeling obscured further as I slip
Off my glasses one last time,
Blind and blurred to all the world I cannot see
Tears heap to vapor and disperse with a weary glaze down
My cheeks as
Life seeps away into mortal corners, boiling goosebumps on my arms
Drowning nevermore,
I feel the thresh of the cord
As this world turns to the next
And a soul quietly exhales
Jan 15, 2016
Jan 15, 2016 at 8:34 AM UTC
Cardinal Chains
Fallen beneath the cross
Shed this crown of thorns
Stumbling through the madness
Blacker than Adam's scorn
Fires on the earth
Echo savior bells
Hoping to the sky
A dream in which to dwell
Souls cry in the chaos
Judgment drawing near
No solace no escape
No hiding deepest fears
We scream across the River
Floating lifeless on a prayer
Sunken dream of salvation
Bathe the burning sins we bear
So it's fate, without free will
The choices already made
Gamble on your good deeds
Your cards already played
Cardinal chains upon me
Punished as all the ******
Suffering life unto death
Followed footsteps of the lamb
Jan 15, 2016
Jan 15, 2016 at 8:18 AM UTC
Roses red
Flowers fade
Words you said
Promises made
All these lines
Not a thing to you
Violet times
Never seen so blue.
Jan 15, 2016
Jan 15, 2016 at 7:56 AM UTC
Life is full of
Life,
Rich sun glowing within
Universal lungs
Breathing, eternity
Into my mind like this ripe air
Cold, pure, growing
Warmth of my being
Mysteries of the flesh
Always,
All ways complete
Jan 15, 2016
Jan 15, 2016 at 7:24 AM UTC
The Open Shore
You are the open shore
Of my heart
Everyday I walk you,
Barefeet stride the pulsating sand
Golden, I warm in your brilliance
Overhead, your illumination
looking down on me
Gentle winds on my smile
My Eyes See You across the waves
Rising, falling, changing,
Bluewhite depths a devotion
Sweeping away all the times I worry
How deep sometimes I wish
To melt into moments like these
Clarity, sparkling rarity
There is no beginning, no end
To our love
Only and always this moment,
Ours,
The years, the lives we will
Tide and recede together
Jan 15, 2016
Jan 15, 2016 at 7:24 AM UTC
Leap of Faith
The world looks so wonderful out there, to me
Callow, feeling naked
****** skin ready for the challenge
Of trembling feet towards the edge
Fear bubbles the thick air
Sharp and honest as a Mother's Love
The view beyond is so far,
So closely I examine what I don't know
Only to nerve and wonder
The edge awaiting like hungry eyes,
The Moment so clear you can see through it all
What brought me here?
How deeply will I fall?
In all, I jump.
Dive the dividing doubt.
Leap of faith.
"I do."
Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 2:49 PM UTC
Bus Station
In the rainy white morning of
Sobered frustration
I placed my heart in the hands
Of an ex
Saying "I Love You" to
Hear No-Reply too
Deeper and clearer becomes
All the stress
As a walk becomes farther
The past beckons closer
To rinse and repeat
Ghosts of yesterday
Each step forward
Opens memories toward
The light long longed for
In so many ways
No direction I wander
So selfish I wonder
How real was the magic
Or all just for show?
The moments, the rarity
So closely to clarity
Feel you're in love but you
Never know
As the bus station sighs
Silence in their eyes
The truth drives away in all its
Shifting gears
After all said and done
When you loved someone
Be present, be now
Untrapped in the years
Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 2:47 PM UTC