Dark iris
veins tainted
and seaside dreams
guide me into
your nights

When my veil
is thin, and the truth
is floating in the
elusive wind

I follow the noise
and seek the storm
for my youth evades me
with each passing sigh

Dark iris
and burning pupils of desire,
I follow you to the unknown
place of worship

I pray to the dark moon
in awe of the sight
and dream of him
in black and white

Like the embers
of a million forrest
fires, I
am dying
slowly and rising higher
while the phoenix
takes my palm
and leads me into
the abyss

Like the embers, I ignite
with solemn mysticism
which guides me higher

With tainted blood,
and the running water
from an overflowing
flood
With a ***** flower
which refuses to bud,
I rise again

I love all the places
forgotten, where
the crevices reveal
an ancient truth in
between
the cob webbed lined
artifacts of time past
and time present
melting together
as one

I love all the places
forgotten
where the souls
haunt the dimly
lit hallways of the
dive bar with vermillion
booths, and sacred
gold mirrors on Sunset
and vine

I love all the people
forgotten whom
held a dream
& lost it in
the evading daydream
with stories to tell
of time past
and time present
merging as one

I love all the places
and people forgotten
for so am I
from time to time

Blessed and cursed
all at once
for invocations
of the broken
rosary bloom
in my minds
eye

There lies heaven
right beneath
the seaside abyss
I won't reach it
unless I dive in deep

Blessed
and cursed
intertwined

Requiem
choir of voices
echo into the endless nights
on a lonely road void of light

Sing to me an unknown
verse to an unknown choir
and ring to the heavens
truth of our mad existence

Life is ephemeral
The ghost flowers
know this as
their only truth

Moonflower blooms
amidst the midnight sky,
as do I

We rise high & take on
a new form, drinking up
the liquid
  egyptian blue
skies

The cosmos injected
into my restless veins
the void is vast
the past is dark

Moonflower, blooms
amidst the midnight gloom
as do I

Egyptian blue
gold in the veins
revelations hidden
beneath the
tree trunk of
eternal truth

When light pours
through the ravaged
wound, it heals
all it's beauty
and essence
in divine timing

Time is an illusion
as it binds
the soul
to the earthly
plane

let's transcend

You're scared of
the dark, afraid
to dive deep

For in the depths,
you face your truth

So you stay in the light,
and you chose to stay blind
yet what you escape
you'll always
eventually find

Hands painted
crimson red,
eyes painted seaside
blue like the faded
sky of midnight

he destructs me
with each lingering
look and I explode
into a million
pieces by the hands
of fate and karma

We've died together
a million times, so what's
another night?

Morning sun rises
to reveal an ancient
truth and I dream
of a wise snake
showing me the path

We've died together
a million times,
so what's another night?

stars dizzy my
melting mind as
the ground fails
to tether me
to the earth

Half in the earth
half in the ethers
never quite
here nor there
nor anywhere

Dizzied eyes
turbulent waves
My heart is harbored
by the seaside

I long to escape
into a world of my own
where we can be alone
together

The road ahead
calls my name
theres a divided
line between my heart
and my head
between the past
and the present

I cross the threshold

Ghost flowers
Ephemeral existence
we fade into
the rise
of a
sun painted
red

Hands woven
by fate
the seeker
Rides off into the
night
dusk slithers
in through the
rear view mirror

Past moments
Dried up in the
Desert heat
The time is
Never, the time
Is now

Spring sprung
alas
as we danced
nomadically
around the
revolving sun

The dreamer
lives an eternal
existence,
the ghost flowers
bloom amongst
the dire
long, night
painted noir

My withering lover,
our paradise seems
so distant with each
passing day.

Your paradise
shines dark blue
and entangles you
in the trappings
of your mind

My paradise shines
bright blue
and shines through
the stars in the sky
to reach the divine

Oh withering love,
our paradise
looks so different
with each passing day.

Birds of Paradise
Prey on me
I’ll follow you to the land above
Or the land below
Whichever direction
The tainted wind shall blow
My weary heart
compassless
& nowhere bound
My wandering toes
Won’t touch the ground

Birds of paradise,
prey on me
Take me far
to the land of the
free

I walked through
the evading rings of fire
with bones of steel
and eyes of tire
for it was nothing
new

There is a storm
before the calm
a dark night of
the soul before
the rebirth.

There is destruction
before growth
and a hatred
before eternal love
can blossom fully
amongst the withered
roses of pains past,
scorned by
the sharpest of thorns.

There is a new dawn
on the horizon,
can't you feel it?

My dreams
my nightmares
collide as one,
awakening me
amidst these dark times

The open, vast road
to freedom calls to me
as the raven rises
once more, singing his
bleak tunes

Escaping into the
delusions, dizzied by
the unknown
When the time
comes, I'll be ready
to answer the call

disillusioned & dizzied
by the reckless, endless nights
forlorn & seeking
a place to call home

The streets are void
of light
the highways
never end

wandering in dark, looming alleys
to escape this ephemeral existence
wander through the forrest
of my mind, the pine trees
sharp &  the past weighs heavy
on my back like stones

rock n roll blares
flowing in the veins
I long to feel your blues
on a dreary sunday noon
I pray to the moon
in awe of her sight
and dream of you
in black & white

ever blooming
ever evolving
the sun is forevermore
the rain sparse
when heaven rains
down upon us
we shed our skin
like egyptian snakes
slithering in
the garden of evil
ever blooming

shape shifting
in the midst
of the crowded streets
I feel the energy around
I drink it up
like cherry lemonade
it's all within me
without me
above me
below me

The wicked youth spin
Tales only seen by eyes
Uncouth
They light the cigarette
In the wind of a gas station daydream
Reckless as the night is long
The days are short and sweet
Vapid beings in a realm of
Lust, eyes wild behind the
Sun kissed hair piled high
The wicked youth
Come out at night
Hide in the day

a castle made of
dry wind

a castle rests above the
azure seaside

opal beauty reflects upon the
sacred hours

where clocks tick eerily
slow

in a blank canvas
we draw one another into existence
with watercolor

The madness
keeps me sane,

the high waters
on a starry night voyage
into the depths of a void
lights my flame

The void can only be filled
for so long, until it expands

I invoke the sun
and the trees
and the whispering wind
in the midnight breeze
to heal and harbor
my fellow man
with light and ease

There's a red thread
woven between us,
tethering us
to one another

The voice of high
heavens ring
in an unfamiliar
ear, telling me
to stay right here.

In this transient life,
all there is
is right now
in another life,
we may get it right
until then,
we lay here our bodies
strewn upon the ethers

demons lie ravaged
by the light
the scorn of night

Holy place of worship,
in lost paradise
I recite
an unknown verse
to an unknown choir
I've heard it once in a distant
dream
there's a lost highway I ride
all night

Lost in the eyes
which tread upon the heavy
gates of heavens

If I keep my gaze
level to the earth
and this plane,
I may never
reach what they call
nirvana

I'm lost in the eyes which
tread upon the heavy gates
of heaven

Tethered to his mad laughter
as it rings into the night

The shore comes crashing
upon the waves of my mind
when I sit still for long
enough, I can reach
the divine

Silence
silence
meditation

The wind in my sails
raise high, and set me
free into the night
the lonely captain
bids me goodbye,
and allows me steer
with all my might
the azure crystal water
treads upon my
glistenin eyes
for I see the horizon
and the mountains behind
already trekked, the storm
is clear

the wind , the sea
the midnight breeze
gets me down on my
******, bruises knees
for I say a prayer
into the abyss-
and wish, and wish
for the past to
set free
as I ride high,
I ride high
oh yes, I ride high
i kiss the moon, kiss the stars
and I bid my past goodbye

free as the night
the long, black highway
haunts me into the day
forget who you've been
become who you are
as the wind cries, and howls
for us to take the day
and forget the night

freight train
runnin' away
from me
once more

your love runs me
blue, and leads me thru
the unknown doors

keep the hallway
lights on, and sing
me a song