For I've laid myself beneath this torrid sky
In search of dreams wondering why
Dreams of days on days like nights
In ever delirium, the mind it fights

Distance gathers my soul
Burns my skin a gaping hole
Oozing like spiders scouting down the throat
Lost at sea a lonely boat

Earth I leave behind in vain
Running from this gripping pain
The tether I've severed still reeling me back
Back on track
This track of doom
From a dried up mouth runs a deafening gloom
Like a river with no current
Stangant.

Sometimes it's hard
A life like shard
Cuts me open, rips my core
It seeps in like rancid gore

And sometimes I need to be alone
In darkness
Love my only weakness
Attachment to detachment
****** fingers tracing over thirsty parchment
And then the papers that hold the truth
Bear dead fruit

Because sometimes I need to hide away from my demons
As they laugh deliriously, hauling, screeching
Hysteria! Deep deep down
And when I breathe I explode into smithereens of confusions
Trapped inside eternal delusions

A thought encompassed
by vast seasons of a deeper longing
found only in the dreams of your heart
when it's beating solfeggios of clouded mysteries
under a sky of vivid hues like morning dew
iced on your window onto which caution is breathed
each day anew in its wake

A feeling expressed only cripples tongues
when a kiss never to be shared amongst one
travels the distance of the oceans bound to drown
with beauty in its pursuit
and a fire is born deep within the kaleidoscope
of courage
and your eyes become the pinnacle of a truth
beyond that which the soul could ever be confined to

An opposing side joined into one
for a moment of silence
where it is the paragon of life with meaning
meaning with passion
passion with wonder
wonder with grace
grace with faith
faith with hope
hope with fate
and fate with destiny


Perhaps it has taken a piece of me
to build a pyre
and held me with the pinions of a broken desire