first love, a blue coyote-
- first heart, a red red moon

first day's not dawned-
love sings a song
a'top a desert dune

genesis of loneliness-
indigenous to wistfulness
- first cry of love
against the first night sky

blue coyote sings
to a red red moon.

r ~ 10/3/14

I stay up all night downing my memories
Drowning my sorrows
Keeping the demons at bay
For one more day
It can always wait until tomorrow
It can wait 'til sunrise to face my enemies

I can plug in
I can overpower the thoughts
I can defeat what drags me to the end
It helps me defend
It kills what I've caught
And its fire wipes away my sin

Temporary
Imprecise
My aim is not true
And I cannot undo
Cannot stop this device
This is all necessary

Stalling
Falling
Calling
Crying
Denying
Dying.

Dead.
­Hey

Maybe it's all in my head.

I spoke and my words along with me started to fade away
Nothing more or less than a gentle sea breeze
Never to be seen but always to be heard
We can feel each other but you'll never find me
Your heart could pretend to love me
I know you're cold
I smell nice and your skin so soft
Getting off track but that's what eternity does to you
My mind hasn't gone it's just occupied by the changes in the ocean
Of your emotion and impossible to read chicken scratch personality
I've lost it all but go with the flow so you know even though
I'm not around all the time I still feel the want to touch
Your life don't forget me I love you very much
Inhale the courage to exhale my name
and one day I might breeze passed you again

I wish I never fell for you
Hands on my chest to keep my heart from jumping out
Your name your being you're all I want to talk about
But I don't get it, you don't even flinch
Life's hard for you and harder for me since
You said my name and we shared a kiss
I am pushed aside because of someone else
My eyes stray while you have your way
All I want to do before you leave is say
I wish I never fell for you

I was dead the whole time
I watched your life and mine
Couldn't believe it, I thought I was fine
Being happy, considered a crime
"It'll be okay" I'd always chime
Thinking I'm finally in my prime
I can't believe this sour rhyme
Unripe and unpleasant green lime
Silent now my thoughts fade away, mime

I say I think because I'm losing track. People thought my last poem was part of the challenge.

Anyway here's the brief

Memory lane
Freedom
Tranquility