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198 · Mar 2020
Ragnarok.
Derrick Mar 2020
Woden comes, lighting through clouds, won’t be long now.

Time to pay your sums, ragnarok has begun.

I seen it in the night through fates eye, steel on bone

Valkyries on shadow wind, mounts a blaze light the sky

Deadly sharp, war-painted and marked

Shields and ravens, hammers and horror

Raising prayers on the winds of dust and bone.

Come to carry you home, not before this battle is done.

Fetid axe with poison deep, here to steal souls not while they Sleep.

ready to reap what we have sown on this field of blood and bone
If you read my writing and notice I go from dark to light its because I do not want to be trapped in any one emotion. Yesterday's wars are today's words.
152 · Apr 2020
Puzzle of me
Derrick Apr 2020
Fell to pieces today.

As I picked them up and put them back

I realized they werent exact

Some were me some were you.

Rough edges and corners broken

A mimic of me with little holes, every piece a token

Secrets unspoken, sacred truths and the path I've chosen.

You told me holes are where the light shines through

Colors that paint us are there for all if you let the light shine to see.

Nothing is quite as beautiful as you painted in me
133 · Mar 2020
Lets runaway
Derrick Mar 2020
Let the music play and steal my soul away

Let's have one more day, with the snow and rain

No place to go every reason to stay.

Steal away with me, let's play and laugh

At a world gone mad.
128 · Mar 2020
Come on people
Derrick Mar 2020
Ring around the town pocket full of hand wash

No tp to be found. People are fuckng clowns.

Funny memes and daydreams the only thing found.

Let's fall down and forget this virus town.
115 · Mar 2020
Battle hymns
Derrick Mar 2020
Dear father I'm here existing in the space you've made for me please turn my enemies from site.
Please hold the darkness, please free my soul from the terror. Make my spear hand strong and my heart stronger. My feet sure in their foundation. My mind focused upon the goal decided long before my time and all times to come. So I can stand true in the hurricane that walks among us. The wind tears my soul the rain blinds my eyes. As the the light dies yours is the only light that shines. Pulling always pulling me home. Battle after battle you've seen me through, walking through fire. Be it war, my soul or hearts desire. The deep calls my name like a lover to long without embrace. So please lift me high on wings made of wind and love and not let this darkness win.
115 · Mar 2020
Breach
Derrick Mar 2020
My mind so clouded

Words broken and missing.

Time ticking and clicking

Lost at sea, no breeze lifting my sail

Found my sun is on the other side of hell

Breach my soul on the rocks of her siren song.

Filling my heart to stop the beating

My words are missing

Not expressing how i feel.
112 · Sep 2020
Crack in the door
Derrick Sep 2020
What does it mean to see a door if i don't wake can i crack it more to peek bright light within. Step through and see trees so tall and waters clear. Each little pool an ocean. rivers bubbling down over rocks in little whirls. Roots so deep they are in another world.  Soft sand between my toes and mystery ahead. I shouldn't speak of what I see for its for the dead.
106 · Mar 2020
The howler
Derrick Mar 2020
Wearaly walking through my mind full of dread. I feel the monster stalking. Always howling and never talking. Eyes glowing mouth full of teeth eerily red. From wence it came the earth is red and fire hot from souls fed. Through darkness and smoke I can feel.my heart choke and chains in my head. Share a tear a smile and hope from above and know what is is what was. When In Woods deep full of fear and weak your mind may not speak for fear of what it may hear. Tricked by a monster you yourself fostered. The other half of my twin raised from within. Given flight in the night to stalk and howl again.
100 · Mar 2020
Eyes of the night
Derrick Mar 2020
Anger, frustration the taste of violence

Scratches blood bone and silence

Hell's eyes burning bright

Damage done bought and payed tonight.

Feels good feels bad I'm alive.

Tip your cup up let's have a fight.
97 · Mar 2020
Untitled
Derrick Mar 2020
Poetry is chaos of thought

Distilled into fine liquor

Or cheap wine.

Drink both

Feel fine
97 · Mar 2020
Heart of the forest
Derrick Mar 2020
Two trees with no leaves sitting on a hill facing the breeze. The harder it blows the closer they go. Deep good earth between their toes no place to go this is home. Met as little acorns some say, washed down the same river now they are together forever. Just two trees standing on the same heart
95 · Mar 2020
For my brother
Derrick Mar 2020
Black soul, if I left would you miss me as I go.

Would you turn bright to light my way home

Cast my shadow away in the night.

Off to see my brother, though he wont know me

has no eyes to see, long gone from the light.

In a coffin out of sight, deep below where we all go.

If a wish could bring you home it would of been done long ago.

I'll walk this road with or without a light to get back out.

It wasnt love that let you down nor will it now.
Just miss my brother today.
95 · Mar 2020
Music and memories
Derrick Mar 2020
I count the days by the music that plays.

Song by song I watch as they walk on

memories and all they have to say.

Each heart beat to the rythym of the snare

Each day I'll watch pass away

Just let the music play.
95 · Mar 2020
Secrets deep
Derrick Mar 2020
I took a long walk in the woods today to ask the birds if spring is on it's way. I hopped and I skipped and I walked along day dreaming of big clouds and little fawns. My heart took flight out of site it went over the hill and down the *****. Away it ran needing nothing from this man. Through rocky crags with secrets deep I found my heart still asleep from our journey that took no feet.
As I touched to wake that which was in my breast I feared to think of what could be said. Why would I wake such a heart with secrets asleep. In my ear a whisper spoke of the things that I hold and Squirrel away. Need me not this day my friend for spring is here and we can both start again.
92 · Mar 2020
Two boatmen.
Derrick Mar 2020
Fate has a hand In who we are and choices push us from the shore. on boats of dreams or rafts of weeds. Life gives each soul what it needs. Be it a problem to solve or wings to dream.
90 · Mar 2020
Under moonlight
Derrick Mar 2020
Life is short
Lovin is long
Meet me in the tall grass
Let's play until dawn.
Making the moon blush.
While our hearts rush.
Me, you and fireflies
Lighting the night alive.
89 · Mar 2020
I wonder. New song
Derrick Mar 2020
I wonder wonder if I’ll ever hear her voice again, or has it played to it’s end.

On my mind all the time, please someone break these chains that bind.
I see her in the clouds with the rainbows and tomorrows,
she makes orchids blush and my heart rush with the sound.

With the sound, with the sound

This fire in my heart turned to ember and then to ash.
With a whisper on the wind this blaze would start again.
Burnin down all I’ve found since then.
But my friend She didn’t stay and now the ash has blown away

So This crown of sorrow, I will wear for what might have been.

The sun asked me where have you been. Dancing with the moon one more time my friend.
Moon beams and vivid dreams carried on the winter wind.

This crown I wear till then.

Until the sunshine turns to rain and I know she feels the same.
Winter has no love for the man who’s lost his friend.
Here I go again. Like the stars she doesn’t seem very far but out of reach.... it’s a sin.
87 · Mar 2020
Whiskey and women
Derrick Mar 2020
I met her in the air

And we seemed to shine

All the expectation all the smile and hope

Left me hollow and hurtin slow.

Whiskey and women have more in common than they know

Both fire to flame and smooth to slow

One will burn you and the other will steal your soul.

Tired of the pain left in my heart each time they go.

And they go they always go I may never know .. why
86 · Mar 2020
Meaning
Derrick Mar 2020
What means something. Well let's talk about it. Little talks and long walks, maybe.
Love from so deep in I cant tell where I begin, maybe
Pouring energy into a universe that created me, maybe
Friends, maybe
That time we cried together when the night was long and full of hopelessness, maybe.
the morning sun, love of a puppy so pure. The laugh of a child that has no past. It's that moment when you look into yourself and see what means something is up to me.
84 · Mar 2020
Exist
Derrick Mar 2020
No wise words today, no painted brush for canvas created.

No lost love or passions strong.

Just a wink and a smile

Now please move along.
84 · Mar 2020
Shaded heart
Derrick Mar 2020
Secrets of the heart are always shaded.
When light has faded and heavens doors are locked and gated. Lonely souls crying truths out loud for what they found. What do you know for True. Because I left mine behind with you. It's easy to judge a man by what he said. But could you love a man instead? It's raining tears and all my fears. My shelter was always you.
82 · Mar 2020
Twilight
Derrick Mar 2020
Mist born wings through forests old. a light ahead like stories told turn hearts ablaze when memories fold. all that’s lost is not yet gone for the light you seek dwells at dawn. Come what may the forests song shall paint old hearts anew with flowers and honey dew. Stay not long In your honeyed state for there is life to live and things to taste. Bitter be they may, the choice is yours to go or stay. Wings of mist and birds of prey are not the only dangers in this place. So know the brook that bubbles down through cavernous mountains with rocky crowns. Fills your destiny on winds of fate. With roots so strong they are iron bound caress the rocks and all they found. Let not your troubled mind worry, for life is short and we are in a hurry to meet the roots in our graves so merry. carried across the river stix by the boatman and his boat of twix. Listen now, when you seek that golden shore. all that is lost is not yet gone, the light you seek dwells at dawn.
82 · Mar 2020
A man forsaken
Derrick Mar 2020
Time isnt something to be taken for granted it runs round and round the clock like a man forsaken.
Nor should it be taken but given or granted.

Like love it's the only thing a man truly owns and does not own at the same time. It can only be felt not seen or heard or touched. In the long run that doesnt matter much.

From birth to bones the lonely road we walk we walk alone. Only slightly sharing moments in eternity. Rain drops, only drops in an ocean in the sky with no shore. Drink deeply there will be no more. Those in the desert thirst for it as the young pour it into any ******* bin close at hand. Watch ever watching the clock as it strikes the first second of forever and tomorrow.
81 · Mar 2020
Green folk
Derrick Mar 2020
I'm high
So is this mountain

-Marijuana
79 · Mar 2020
A mans heart changes.
Derrick Mar 2020
Sipping my coffee today I seen a humming bird out my window pane. It buzzed, zipped and zoomed. on the hunt for its pleasure and all the little treasure each flower has in bloom. It's easy to forget what makes us tic until the flowers show their hearts with nectar wetted wic.
A thought occurred right then and there, how a man's heart isnt fair. Quickly loving then not caring. With my lessons learned and heart renewed. I believe I'll seek my little pleasures and treasures in you.

— The End —