No need to ******
Came a willing lamb
Snap your unused lures
And paint my empty wool

Did Earth feel slighted
For Her credit due
She turns our lives so carefully
For praises sparse and few

Imagine you a bird
That dared to fly the dark
Just to see the sun
Before it's fated spark

I cried for joy
That wasn't mine
I found the tears
In love sublimed

My chest of ash
And hopeless dreams
In anger burned
In spite of meat

My flaming heart
And heated head
Defiance fed
A sparking wish

Beaten and bruised
My lovely muse

One for wonder
And one for dust
One inspires
The other tires
One is nearer
Yet less dearer
All are timeless
None to stay

Recalled a certain thrill          
At hate for a hypocrisy        
A smirk for sacrilege          

And wonder all along            
It's just the pluck of memory
A thread of this in me            

A narrow path is mine  
In rows of dolls, they string in line
No righteous face in time

Rhymes revolve when you're around
Wrapping tendrils through my brain
Running verses into ground
Renewing words that clear your rain

When snow falls
The world slows
And doesn't shun
The reminisce

Winter's sky
In green July
Quite the con-
trasting delight

Why's a spirit to be feared
But a soul once held so dear
Do they stand with empty hands
All their memories turned to sand

Is peril in nothing to lose
In abundance feel accused
Will they damage what is yours
Because what was went before

What if reminisce is to see
Watching life begin and be
But to live a little more
Hearing your laugh through a door

Suppose a blessing they will give
Hoping that this love relives
Wonder if a sweeter smile
Crosses their face on the mile

The south is fading
And grasses grey
The thistles pale
All minds they stay

Let there be noise
Explosions bled
Great cocophony
Inside my head

Drown the voice
Blissful hush!
Timorous absence
Muffled drums

For fear! It's pause...
Unpresent thoughts
They're rushing back
They crush and clot

Every body's
Brilliant
Because before
We weren't
And now
We're everything

Black sticky balm
Percussions drum
It's flaming calm

Sweet icy chips
Sharp notes *****
Metallic lit

Red velvet voice
Seductress nice
What relished vice

Scallywags, scamps and *****
Loki, Ladies and lust
Crowley, Lana and rust
Dandies, pirates and trust

Desperation bears belief
And finally
You find relief
You wish and you dream
And you spin and you weave
And finally
You only leave

I'm in the murky place
Between two warring worlds
Blind to the beauty blurred
By swirling milky words

I see your catacombs
Cemented single minds
Feel crumbling rockiness
As cracks create the ground

It started small
Like filigree

It bound the heart
A slushing sea

A pebble thrown
And contents poured

It filled again
And it was stone

I'll never wed
That common expectation never met

And mother said
If only I had chosen someone else

In secret smiled
Oh, dearie, it is never quite that dire

You see, I lied
It's you alone, the reason that I hide

Keep the devil on my shoulder
And your wisdom in my ear
Counteract the ignorance
And poisonous refrains

Bend an ear to every rebel
Every sacrilegious mirror
Tally all the benefits
Of every "betters" gain