What does God need?
Surely I’m thankful for all I have
Perhaps God needs our obedience
A 10th of all our cash
But what would God
do with all of that?

Does he own our minds and souls
The worldly knowledge that we hold
Does he want his blue skies back
Another big bang it all turns black

God what could you possibly want
A leap of faith into your swamp
Of
People suffering
Battles Cries
Searching for truth in piles of lies
Trust in the invisible
Trust in man
Numbered with the grains of sand
But here I stand
Alone in my folly
Wondering why
What’s up with this God guy?

I sought to find
The root of all these impairments
Causing the misfiring of our souls
Not a single time or faze "but"
A place where nobody knows

And there hidden beneath the nothing
I could only take a guess
Perhaps we're simply spores
On a piece of moldy bread...

I get it
I'm broken inside
Most of me would like to die...
She keeps reminding me
I can't do anything right
The pills I take
Impair my sight
24-7 she lets me know
I'm but a burden
That needs to go!

I turned to face her, her eyes ruled my guts
I tried to embrace her, self-mutilated in her cuts
I wiped the wicked from her gloom
There pink elephants consumed her room
I pretended not to notice her self-destructive maze
So many precious moment I was locked away

I'm here if you need someone to bleed upon
That's all I really have to offer since I've been gone
Gone like your trust in love, gone like your heart
Gone like your need for a father but where would I start....

When I was but a foolish young lad
I trapped my demons down below
Creating spells of compromise
I let my holy spirits flow
I'm not here to free your mind
Of guide you through your maze
The only truth I have to share
Is I have simply lost my way
.........................


Just because we change our ways
doesn't mean the darkness fades.

And when the sun
finally shined
All the creatures
Were doing fine
The dark had retreated
With moon on display
There, on the horizon
A brilliant maze
Of mirrors and colors
Reflections of life
There I left behind
The blindness of strife
There the thankfulness
Planted a seed
To be alive
I am
Happy indeed!

Did you hear?
Everything is going to be fine!
It has come to light
apparently
everybody and everything
is just divine ..

Seriously poet’s
this is what we’ve been waiting for!
an end to suffering
the end of all wars!

You can unlock that door
tHEY mean you no harm
change your beliefs
through up your arms!

There’s no need to stay
in an uneasy way
evolve consciously
and enjoy the day!!

Shush.. quiet down!
Do you poets ever go to sleep?
I believe It's all been said
And done before
Still you had to write your piece
But you are correct
Most of us forget
If I miss a single word
I'm eaten by regret
So here in my world
It's dark outside
One last post
And I'll say goodnight
Goodnight!

I realize this may sound
Well. Somewhat unnatural

Can you at least
Allow me to watch you
Watching

How soon love
Gets forgotten
Okay
Then Shall I bid you
Good night my love
!

(A letter from prison)

Like a ghost ever haunting
My presence remains
In those boxes
In your basement
Is my domain
I was once there with you
As the photos do disclose
But now I’m just a shadow
Left from years ago

I have simply been forgotten
And my ghost is no big deal
Packed away so neatly
In a box marked "Goodwill”

In the nighttime I’m a dream
The one you used to have
In the morning I’m still missing
But you’re no longer sad
To your friends I’m that secret
When the conversation’s deep
But lately I’m a whisper
That rarely makes a peep

I waited for your visit
But you never showed at all
I must have sent a dozen letters
And made a dozen calls
But I've simply been forgotten
And my ghost is no big deal
Packed away so neatly
In those boxes marked “Goodwill”

If I only had the words
That flowed like all the best
I’d tie you in a knot
of my grandiloquence!

And what about the lairs
Who whisper in our ears
Shadows in the corridors
Envy in their stare's
Evil eyes awatching
Wishing wicked things
I can feel them
Crawling across
The dirt of all our
Graves




An exercise in creativity....

You can twist
My heartstrings
In a somersault display
Spiral through my being
Fill me with your rays

You can flood my soul
Hold me in your beam
I am but a shooting star
In your gravity
.....

White and woolly
Cotton clouds
Fluently floating by
I take my time
I take a ****
Smoke rings
In the pines

In laughter free
Among the trees
Where echos begin to rhyme
Come and play
Long in the day
The Oak is in his's prime
.........

If memories become flesh
In the form of grey matter
Then perhaps good lovin'
Can make our brains fatter..

May the dark days of the soul
Swiftly come and go
And the fall out
Of your pain descend
And the rough edges
Be hidden well
As you hold the memories
Of your personal hell
Within

Why admit your deepest sin
Your personal Judas kiss
Why expose your secret soul
Those cuts upon your wrist

Memories we gather
Turn to ink upon the page
Perhaps for the eccentric
It's a means of escape

Regurgitated
By our unconscious
Dissected
By our intellect
Haunting us
In our dreams
Blessed are those
Who no longer
Wake up in scream

I am here to let you know
You are not alone
Fear not the mark
Those stains on our soul
Write them down
Then perhaps
We can start
To be whole
...

If you fell into depression
Would I leave you there to die?
In a world where no one's listening
When you're praying to the sky
On behalf of my belonging
To this silly human race
I'd like to get to know you
Yet I've set a slower pace

When your eyes become so distant
That they blend in with the rest
Losing focus on the subject
Life becomes a ******* mess
When the light of day is dying
It grows near a time to sleep
The grim'll be waiting
'Cause it's His job
   To reap...

In the twinkling of on eye
Time passes us by
In a fleeting moment
Dead skin turns to dust
Still I feel I must
Insist on going slow
Letting each moment linger
With plenty of room to grow

In each of us
A rite of passage
A special trip
Through
Our own hell's
From beginning unending
We search for soul
In the physical realm
Of human cells

The greatest reward
Is to always be growing
In your love
And in your soul
And even greater
The love we're showing
While we're gracefully
Growing old
...

In suffocation
I gasp for light
I've been far too long
In the dead of night
All that I've longed for
Choked from my sight

Shadows  dance
Shallow breath
Alone I fear
The dreaded death

Who knows not
This stormy
Insecure
Gut knot

We lie
To the devils
To our lovers
To ourselves
Knowing not
What the gut knot
   Is even about...



...

I wish I had a time machine
There are so many places I’d rather be
Instead I’m stuck right here in now
With this guitar upon my knee
I play all day and dream all night
What sweet rhythms do I hear
I cast these spells of love gone bad
While I'm crying in my beer
And if I weren’t on this spiral
headed for an early grave
I’d find myself another excuse
To waste my life this way...

Haiku’s are boring
I don’t like reading haiku’s
Haiku’s really ****!
..........................
This is a haiku
The cow jumped over the moon
Was it good for you?
............................
Nature is beauty
Passionate aesthetic dreams
Haiku’s still **** though!
..........................

If within the
Parts of a whole
Each whole part
Owned it's own part
Of the one and only "soul"
Would not separation
Then be our goal?
Until we come together
  We shall never truly know...

It was
In the deepest depths
Of fiery hell
That I met
My Sweetest Jezebel

It may seem lost
To common reason
But you see demons
Where indeed in season

Can you imagine
How I came to grips
With a chick with horns
Wearing a **** red slip

And those eyes
That glowed green
Demon goddess
Dark shadow Queen

   No reason
To be concern
Into the depths
She did return
   As for me...
I lived and learnt
I'm no longer
   Getting burnt...

And there I was hanging
Eternity beneath my feet
One handed white knuckle
One tight grip on reality

And so I wonder where
My strength comes from
And who will catch me
When I lose my grip

I never knew I could fly.

I wake early every day
in anticipation of the rising sun

For me, unlike most my peer's
my life at sixty
has just begun

My body feels so good
so strong, so right!
I've taken up mindfulness
I've let go of strife

I don’t have a lover
My money is really tight
My truck needs new tires
My neighbor's
for some strange reason
want to pick a fight
But...
all of that
is but mere shadows
beneath this
Poet's light!

It’s
hard to see through fog
so why are you wearing
that cloudy frown
Being
alone has little to do
with the reason you feel down
Only
you can make you free
from the slave your willing to be
You
ya you writing your heart felt pain
happiness is not synonymous
to some relationship game
Learn
to be alone
until then don’t knock it
put your needs
in a secure pocket
Love
yourself
above anyone else!

Where shall I take you
So we can be alone
I know you love the ocean
You know I love to roam
Somewhere, days unending
Somewhere far from home
I will take you on a journey
We’ll find your happy bone
......

Exercise
or slowly die!
Lose your breath
learn to fly!
Body brain
feel the pain
stop whimpering
let’s go!
don’t leave me
  here alone…

Times can get hard
For the easy
Surely the fat
Can't always be greasy

All fall in a moment
To pieces
And get caught
In the cupboards
And creases

So whenever
The good life squeezes
Clear your mind
Before it ceases

Find your path
Back to the feast
Leave the hard times
  For the beast...

To imagine the imagination
Is to be drawn into the fire
For those
Creative experience’s
Are hard wired

Enchanted escalade
Up the mountain of archetypes
There your gift of expression widens
In a poetic array of wonder
Together WE
Rain down on the weary world
And a spark of light so blindingly bright
Brings sight to the busy ants

The hole dug today
Was just for tonight
Dear rabbits it’s time to dig another one!

In sanctuary of mindfulness
Breath becomes aware
Behind the eyes of watching
God is present here!

Information highways within
Minute quantum blackholes
Our connection to divinity
Through pours in our soul's

It here I would hope you visit
And eventually come to live
In the sanitary of the caretakers
In eternal mindful bliss!

It's nothing that frightens me
This absence of youth
No longer can superstition
Impair my truth
Retired are my judgments
And the hypocrite relapse
No longer do I pretend to be
Chosen for such task

Yet the recommendation
Of discipline
Can hardly take hold
Without a heart of vanity
  And a bullet proof soul
And the willingness to admit
   What can't possibly be known...

We can never have world peace
as long as people are at war with their self.

I see you clearly
Behind that screen
Down deep inside
You're quite like me
A craving so strong
You spend hours
Writing songs
Yet that's not all
  That we seek...
So hear my words
I think you're superb
Always on point
And unique
And please like
Who you may
Or start your own thing
At the end of the day
I hope you curl up
With someone sweet
You won't get no hate
   Out of me...

I just wanted to say
I admire how you have
it all figured out 🤔
You recognise the person in the mirror
I still have my doubts.
And..
I get that although
I know more than you 🧳
you know much more
then I ever could!
Impeccable in the way you should
May love feel our comments
In the force of good!!

To think about it
I have seen the whole thing
Hell, I've seen it come
Into this world
And I seen it leave
I seen the passion
That every breath breaths
In the face of cold reality

And here in the middle
I've been beneath
I held on to heart ache
Been kicked in the teeth
But tomorrow is here
At the end of the road
Now, I'll do some living
With this heart of gold
...

How dare they should determine what come next?
Chaos agreed upon then pardoned when there nothing left.
Daily I retreat to my wisdom’s core, calmly deep in nature I can breathe once more.
In this matrix I feel less than complete, everyone I know seems fast asleep.
With eyes wide open I can hear our heart beat, I push forward in the beauty of finally flying free!

Sometimes I neglect
To confess
But please know
I love you
With every last breath!
............

I’m sorry to see
you’re falling apart
It could be different you know
We could strive to make things better
  Reimagine our roles…
These dreams manifest themselves
in clusters of agreements
Sort them out and sigh…
Accept the moment
and in the light you’ll receive it
Catch ahold and fly!

What if life had no mystery
wouldn’t
we  just be doing time?

What if life had no end
wouldn’t
meaning be hard to fine?

Let’s see
no mystery and no end
right back to Hell again!

The Moon and her stars
The Sun and his rays
In lover's pursuit
For all of their days
A Star is born
In eternal light
Flickering dreams
Strive to take flight

In proximity of
The Giver of Life
She spins in dark skies
The goddess of night
In the absence of
Her lover's smile
The howls of doom
Greet the wild

The promise of heaven
Was not his to give
Two hearts lost forever
And so shall we live...

Serene this cage of mine
I get trapped in my own mind
Shall I dare come up
For air
Oh how these ties bind
Less a foxhole prayer
Answered by the wind
In the distance of dreams
I lost far to much love
To be redeemed
In soul reflections
I've closed my heart
Indulging in pleasures
Aesthetic ******
In inter human
Alone I stand
And now I beg thee please
Come back my love
Come back!!

Of course I can carry my own weight
And evidently the weight
Of others wonderful
Sedentary minded people...
...friends and relatives

But despite all the
"Passion"
I can muster up..

I cannot carry
The weight of the world!

Although
There's so much to love
In the aesthetics of existence
There's no stopping the heart
From being resistant

We all have a soul
So easy to squeeze
Carry it upon your shoulder
Wear it upon your sleeve
But here is
A simple little clue
The weight of the world
Is not just for you
....

HP September 11, 2015

In hearts greater than ours
Fables of love and fear are sown

Slain in the spirit
Such a burden of proof
Neurotransmitters
Inexperienced youth

Conclusions are formed  
As the intellect yawns
Yet to free your mind
You got to move on...

It was 14
Degrees below
Today
In Hell Michigan
I'm talking hell
Literally froze!

Surviving in a prison cell
I learn to stand behind myself
Witnessing this hell I dream

We sleep in comfort
As we slumber away our existence
Being a true master takes persistence
Hell I can fall back to sleep in an instant

Aesthetic displays
I get lost in the days
This dream is but a life
The con from beyond
Keeps me going strong
No matter wrong or right
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