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Dalton Bauder Apr 2019
Maybe I should have picked up my phone
And just called
Instead of thinking about you
from time to time,
As if you were not already
Listening,
Waiting to answer.

Sometimes sh*t don’t make any sense,
It’s all about the way it comes across
Or maybe the way that it doesn’t
even leave my head
half the time.

How should I put it,
perhaps,
other heads don’t always
work like mine does.
4/25/19
Dalton Bauder Nov 2013
your flavor is acidic,
sharp & sweet like lemonade,
& we play a symphony
with violin-hearts,
resonate.

you are the moment of rest
between every breath;
you’re there when you’re not,
I’m lost
when you leave.

where dreams and life collide;
leave your weary bones behind
time has it’s own heartbeat;
every gear will turn, in time
i don’t believe in miracles,
but i believe in you.
Dalton Bauder Oct 2013
do you have your wits about you
when you climb into your bed?
do you pray for better days
as you try to clear your head?

we are all the same someway,
i assure you.
though we try to find a way
to ignore the truth.

as the huddled masses gather
and try to find their grace,
they tell of one to saves us,
to take us from this place;
but somehow still the tears, they fall
and they gather by the graves
of the ones that never made it,
introduced to unexpected fate

where have we gone?
where are going?
you can’t it take it from us
please, don’t take it from us.

not this.
Dalton Bauder Sep 2013
by the gleam of idols,
governed,
minds’ defied;
no sanctuary
untouched
by their guise

disguising love as god;
a masquerading truth,
entailed with
the cycle
of the moon.

around and around
the shepherds lead
lost souls,
hung on hooks
by fishers of men
Dalton Bauder Sep 2013
cerebral collation,
the flesh of gods;
in amiable display
of communion.

communion of worlds.

raptured in a savor
of unity; unbounded
within our ceremony.
to unearth
the creed
of man
and beast.
collation |kəˈlāSHən, kō-, kä-|
noun
a light, informal meal.
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) a light meal allowed during a fast.
Dalton Bauder Sep 2013
a gathering;
parietal.
upon the hill.

where truth beguiled,
and brightened by
the suns of gods;
crucified...

somehow
outshone by
the light of our skin.

where
the dagger rests,
now sleeping
in the flesh;
the blood of martyrs
was not enough
for the black sky
over Golgotha.

oh father,
forgive us
for we know not what
we do.
"parietal" pəˈrīətəl/ -  is a reference to the bones that create the side and roof of the skull (not fully developed at birth in the human body); Skull being a secondary reference to Golgotha, the location of the crucifixion Jesus Christ.

this poem is a heavily allegorical.
Dalton Bauder Sep 2013
there is no silence within you;
and still, no place to resonate.
amidst a flash of deja vu,
how could you form
your own escape?

chastised tongues
are bathed in blood;
salt the wounds now,
as she weeps.
the truth rebuked
in sacrifice;
what does it mean
to truly sleep?

the vivid recount,
you’ve been here before
familiar sounds,
foreign allure.
do halted hearts
liberate souls?
is your last breath
even your own?

dreams
dreams of black and gold
remnants of arson;
smoldered coals.
dreams
dreams of severed souls
lavish closets;
empty homes
a poem for the light-hearted.
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