In the woods far from all men
There was a woman that lived in peace
With her dog and daughter made three
From time to time people would come for her help
She knew much of many things
And lived a life of light love and compassion
She was a healer
But some would say witch
And a day came that a child went missing
The villagers came to her but not for help
They decided that she used black magic to lure the child away
They burned her in autumn air at end of day
Standing elevated above on the unset pyre
Looking around as fire was kindled
She felt the lick of flames
Yet only hot for a moment then cold
Her daughter looking on as she uttered her last words
"This is what you pay to love
Im to be ash in the wind
And your to live with your sins"
She went out like a flame
Like a star winking out
the world was left darker
And a small heart left cold

This
This is what you pay to love
Take it in
To watch it burn slow
Just a reminder sometimes
*It would be better to let it go

From the quite of the fading evening light
Clouds came slow to block the stars from sight
Gently came rain tapping rhythm with the wind
As thunder drops the beat the symphony begins
Water coming in to wash us clean again

Oh Zeus bring the storm
Make it rain on these *******
Make them tremble with thunderous pleasure
Lightning crash to make you gasp clutching ****** closely
Tonight bring the pain and show this earth a couple things

I wasn't always broken

In days of yore

I was bright and happy

Unfortunately that light

Made this darkness all the more

Beneath the lonely tree
In the barren field you see

Watch the summers light
As it gives over to night

There is a lonely star
That watches earth from afar

Disconnected through window pain

Inside looking out
Outside reflecting in

*See it to the end
Then start back
And begin again

You've a radiant smile
And gorgeous eyes
It appears your a sweetheart
Saying you love when I'm around
That I'm the life of the party
I'm not sure who your talking about
But if that's what you see
It seems you're flirting with me
I could be wrong
But maybe
I'll never know without action
So eyes closed I dive in

The energetic crackle
of lightning lanced down
Moments after the strike
and the streaked sky
Came the thundering rolls
Like grumbles from the grave
From at light already fled
Sleeping dreams yet to come
even if i haven't long
Ill sit and listen to the evenings orchestra

There was a rumble in the west
As the sky opened
And the rains fell
The earthy smell that rose from the soil
These are the times
When I'm glad
To be alive and free
Oh rain
Baptize me in an earthly essence  
I hope when I'm laid gently in the ground
That the smell of new rain will follow me down

I don't know where it comes from
Its not like knowing
It's more like water flowing
As my fingers break the surface
With it's depth it grasps me
Fathoms down to where few have been
Deep enough to lose myself
Deep enough to drown
As the surface breaks
The water slides from me
From my veins the blood on the page
Channeling that vast ocean that swells in us all
The very same tide we ride when we die

He wore a fickle grin
But it seemed there were worms within
Behind those tombstone teeth
He scares me
I dream of him opening that maw
Seeing other world's in the darkness of his cloak
Seeing only gleams where eyes should be
Oh this dark man
That seemed like no man at all*
Empty eyes That nightmare grin
And behind the vale the worms within

****
As far as i can see
This can mean no good

Rivers like roads,
With a sea of clouds encroaching.
Can you hear the rain?
Its coming across the plains.
*Can you hear the rain?

Detritus beside the road.
*What have we become?

Oh migraine
You are the ****** of the headache family

Leaving me trembling
Wishing only to lay in silent darkness

My brother
In limbo

20 years
Of stasis

Someday
Freedom will be

Stay well

If you strike me down i will become more powerful than you can imagine

No seriously if you would just ******* you'd save yourself a lot of trouble

Oh well i guess your goin for it well i hope you enjoy vengence from the grave

Becoming one with the force is pretty neat now i can ******* universal style

There comes a time in some lives
For great change
A true metamorphosis
And hope for tomorrow
For mornings radiant glow
Believe waking will bring joy and not sorrow

This reality
                     our existence
          Even for all the pain and anguish
                                       And all the violence and hate
                          Is still beautiful
Take time to appreciate the flaws
                       That makes the beauty all the more marvelous
Where only here for a moment
                            *So let us live before we die

Life before death
Love over hate
Kindness before rage
Peace over war
The lives we live
Are the choices we've made

I am not what i look like
I am not my tattoos
I am not my disabilities
I am not my body
I am more than what you see
I am the light that identifies with infinity
I am a splinter of the Devine as you are
And someday when this body dies
And is laid in the ground
My soul will go out to everything
So there is no need to cry
Ill be with you
Because My spirit never died

The way she flows against me
Fast and slow
To and fro
As we go
The ****** we know
The waves of ecstasy
That washes or souls

Looking to the screen
The ****** of the masses
Numbing us
Dehumanizing
Oh to live
*In the age of ice cream

My waking eyes,
turned happiness to a glass floor.
Can you see the cracks?
I can see them.

Looking up at the moon
*My god she looks lonely

This flesh is temporary
When the boy grows up
To be an old man and dies
His flesh returns to the earth
But the lights that filled his eyes
Returns to the energy

Feelings shall be heard dear
Passing from heart to head
Whispered gently between souls

Autumn's body lay cold and beautiful
It's sad she has to pass with the winter

Love knew
                           Time may
                                                   heal the void

All good things must pass
Leaving only photographs
Now I wait to pass
*So I can leave my photograph

Close your eyes
Its time to die
The little death
*We die each night

Broken years
And cold dreams
Its no wonder
This is me

Couldn't mother play a song in silence
Todays voice will echo when shes gone
As her strength is your strength
*she will wait for you in silence

I could feel the way
As you pushed away
And away away i went

Its insidious
How it creeps in
****** dreams
There Stealing your children
An entire generation
Crippled and broken

Go home
Go home they said
As if it were a punishment
*Home is where id like to be
Home is where my heart finds me

i once had a beautiful lime tree
it grew from the dirt as a little green spurt
and reached to the heavens from its place in the earth
id wind down the trail to the tree that a love
to sit in his shadow and watch as the sky turns colors above
i lean on my friend and he whispers to me
it sounds like the waves on the sea
and when night has fallen i wave to my friend and leave

Over years i wondered far from my tree
though his whispers are always with me
a leaf caught in my hair
like the thought in my mind
i haven't seen him in years

when i come apon the trail that leads from my home to my tree
the green has overgrown it and they whisper to me
i thought my friend was sleeping
but he had gone from his place in the field
what was left was a dead lime tree
One last time
i leaned against my friend and whispered to his leaves
*i have come at last to say goodbye to my lime tree

I know it's cliché  
*But **** Monday

~     Sometimes Its to much
*And i feel i may bleed to death of it

Doused
             in living fire
                                 I burnt to ash
                                                       From the ash
                                                             ­              Hope springs
                                                         ­                                        An eternal ring

Bathe in waters sweet
*To wash the pain from me

Through his smile
*I see an empty soul

It trickles by when life is slow
Yet when its fun how fast time goes

Minutes like decades
Years like seconds

In the space of a blink
Your hair will have turned to gray
And all your friends will have passed away
Left only old photos of bygone days

And in the mirror of youth
You'll hardly recognize  
The lines on your face
live today before its gone away

I used to be smart
I used to be strong
But these last few years
Have torn me apart
I lost who i am
Sometimes i think
That I've come to far
*To find my way home

I remember
Though you think id forgot

The times spent laughing
The times of childhood past
Remember the summers we swam in the pool
Pretending we where dolphins or monsters
Man we where fools
But it was ok because i was with you

We would lay our beds on the glass shop at night
And watch the stars wheel slowly through the sky
Feeling astronomical powers collide

A shot of smooth fire as it burnt through the night
Seeing the fire reflected back in both of our eyes
We would send wishes along with that light

So i remember
How could i forget
The day that you died
I lost my best friend

So I am about to be a free man again, to wander where I please.

I find the prospect nauseating.

I think that tonight is the night I will hang Howard W. Campbell, Jr., for crimes against himself.

I know that tonight is the night.

They say that a hanging man hears gorgeous music. Too bad that I, like my father, unlike my musical mother, am tone-deaf. All the same, I hope that the tune I am about to hear is not Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas.'

Goodbye, cruel world!

Auf wiedersehen?

I don't know you
And you don't know me
Yet the moment i saw you
My heart began to sing
As if i had known you
A life or two ago
Perhaps when we die
Then we both will know

I saw infinity
In a glass of water

I felt it strange
As it passed

It was a difference
Like night and day

The loss of the feeling
That i am alone

The realization
That i am Connected to all of you

That life is a dream
And death an illusion

All of this hate
And all the confusion

Are the movements of energy
Through our mortal coil

Yet without the body
There would be a unity

We would be everything
And nothing

This is why life exists
To experience ourselves subjectively

Most of us not knowing
That we are drops from the same ocean

With every kindness And crime we commit
We further our understanding

Still with life comes conflict
And another chance to change

We live our lives like falling rain
*Only to pass back to the ocean again

Time is a face that lies still on the water
Zellfain's light burst the barrier clouds
From mayas pool grew there a sapling
Zelmaya the tree of life where we began
The essence of two
coiled in blood and bone
Leaf  sap wind and stone*
The light of sun on darkened ground
In this tree a balance found
*That is why we live and die
Love and cry
Laugh and sigh
All within zelmaya's eye

~     A life without love
 *Is akin to death without rest