The trip back home gets longer every year
And the decades don’t know
How much time you spend, Here
Like a book or a novel, a weary man’s wish
The dreams that we shared
Have long been, relinquished
Or relented or returned
Or accepted as burned
When everything said
Is bathed in sadness
The world seems lost, and I swear
This is madness

I’ve traveled further in a night
Than most have a right
Beholden to a darker shade of green
Dare you bask, In a midnight stream
Or expose what these lies have dreamed
Deep in mind, dilapidation or rhyme
In the recesses and dark confines
Splintered fractures and shadows in-kind
Or in tow, or in line
Or exploding in time
I can’t seem to wake up, though I know that I've tried

I hate myself for all the years I’ve wasted
Toxic clouds of regret for all the fears I’ve tasted
Symbols and lines that lash, vines or rhymes
So many indecipherable tries and lies
Or visions of my own demise
A recluse in my own mind, alive
So much time I’ve spent counting the hours that I’m breathing
Barely able to surmise, an inaudible sunrise
Or the cries of surprise, when I smell the truth
Of all these highs, as I rise
A glimpse, of another sleepless night
A hypnotic glimmer or an optical shimmer
A moment of peace, as I slip
Into that right, state of emptiness

To be crushed by the weight of a sunset
Astounded by the beauty of a single snowflake
Intoxicated by the aroma of a rainy day
Entranced by the sound of the merciless wind
Engulfed by the flame of a naked touch
To love, with reckless abandon

If Romeo had lived
And Juliet wasn’t cold
And the pages we turned
Weren’t the memories we sold
If the fire was lit
And the flames never died
And the channels we changed
Didn’t flicker with lies
...

I cast my mind upon the wind
With the intention of soaring
But I awaken to find myself, instead
Gazing at a river of loss
Dreaming of being swept away
Misplaced abandon
Completely at her mercy
I am Conquered, yet free
A tumultuous fury
A memory
Are we

Buried in the sand
On the beach where I stand
My dreams like sea turtles
Have long since swam, away
Who will meet my needs
A Million miles though it hardly seems
Like a worthy investment
Just a time-worn dream