I bet she's sitting down somewhere...eating.
Same as me!

He pondered

Paused

Then continued to...

Then stopped suddenly

He picked up the empty tray in front of him where his burrito just was and hurled it as hard as he could against the wall across from him

He watched it explode into small pieces
In slow motion

His lips began to tremble
he glanced over across the street

A young couple
Holding hands
Smiling

Her eyes keep me awake at night
They pierce through my foul moods

and in them
galaxies begin and end

I am helpless and
at their mercy

They linger in me

Jetting out
The pores on his skin

RELEASE

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH......................................

That's better.....

Yea....much better

An
oasis

of a lover
is truly
my hearts desperate
beckoning

it uselessly grasps
and reaches out

to the emptiness

in high hopes that
one day very soon

his hand will find another

and together they'll
float endlessly though

the
horizons of tomorrow

Today might be the day...

The Owl listens closely
while that distinct howl
echoes through valleys that have no name
Nameless....
Same as the rest of mankind
"deny them love" posted on billboards
screamed out so that the whole galaxy can hear

All the while, he sits and he smiles

The Owl watches....patiently...

To live in this world
is to struggle

Against....
-the elements
-yourself, mainly your mind
-circumstances beyond your control
-old age
-enemies of all shapes and forms
-disease

we
will be
claimed by one or all
of the above

no one is exempt

so enjoy what time you have

see these struggles as an initiation

see you on the battlefield

The defendants' plea is obvious, your honor...

Guilty

I admit it...he said in a serious tone

I...I...
I've forgotten what it is like
to feel a woman's caress across my cheek

I can't recall how it feels to awaken
and have her right next to me

His eyes clench up and start to surrender
tears as he continues

Her sullen figure

Motionless majesty

Mountains, plains and terrains as far as the eyes can see
Did I explore enough?
When it was mine to explore...

Did I?

He looks up

Is there something I could've done differently?

Every *** has its lid
Or at least that's what I've heard
like every car has it's driver
and every tree has it's bird

Oh how I've waited for mine
How I've pondered and schemed
While heart muscle beckons
and my patience grows lean

every year I get older
every year I grow sad
that my lid is still missing
or possibly dead

All my dreams are but windows
to things that aren't real
and yet I can't help but wonder
why I feel how I feel

Every *** has its lid
Like a drunk needs his ***
I hope it's tonight
when my lid finally comes

I often wonder

If I'm being punished

For crimes from past lifetimes

This journey is long, lonely, and painful

It's really not fun

So many slithering sunrises
came and went

A countless number of curses
Emerged from my tongue

and now?

on this day....

the sun glistens brighters than ever....

Ol sitting bull came to me in a dream
He came dressed in white and eyes filled with steam
He gave me five A's to be a better man
Here they are, one through five, write them down if you can...

1. ALWAYS keep both eyes wide open; never ignore what you see
2. ALWAYS keep both ears wide open; never ignore what you hear
3. ALWAYS make sure
4. ALWAYS do what you feel is most important
5. ALWAYS do what you said you were going to do, when you said you were *going to do it, the way you said you were going to do it

I am alone with my thoughts

they slither around me.....hissing and shooting me
menacing looks

my future gets darker by the minute

all I want Is what everyone else has in excess

love, companionship,  affection....a reason to continue fighting

The solitude will consume me
**** me out

my reward.....
death

what did the universe expect
after years of neglect?

You are your own worst enemy

It is through

inner strength

that this changes

The sound of the traffic at that hour was completely deafening

She tried to pick herself up
but couldn't

After a few minutes she finally managed to lift herself up
Bruised and bleeding, she limped over to the curb nearby

"Fractured arm, for sure" she thought as she looked around for her phone

She'd been using it only moments before the accident
She spotted it in the middle of the intersection

Crushed into oblivion
  
The car that hit her was long gone
She was lucky to be alive...

Always...
ALWAYS...
Keep both ears wide open...
*And never ignore what you hear...

Absent albert once so glad
Absent albert now so sad
Absent albert sits now silent, silent,  silent

Stares, he does...
At the empty space
He once shared
With the one who now walks amongst the clouds

His chair, his hat, his corncob pipe
Now sit collecting dust
He stares blankly

Sighing not crying
Being strong
As his beloved would have wanted

Let me tell you something about this world

This world will eat you up and **** you out, if you let it
And make no mistake, it will try

It will do its damnedest
No one gets a free pass
No one

This world is a cruel and harsh place
I state this simply because...
It’s all I've known for longer than I care to remember
I've lived it

This world will test you, in every possible way
It will twist, it will bend, it will extinguish you, if you let it
Don't let the tone of what I'm saying fool you
Do not misunderstand my words

This world will do anything and everything to you, and that is a fact

The real question is, what are you going to do?
I remember when children used to tease me
at school, I'd run home and tell my mother
She'd say, ”it’s not what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”

It all comes down to a choice; really
Your choice

For despite what this world may do you,
you have in your possession one of the most powerful
tools on this or any other world

The power of choice

The power to choose your destiny, right here, right now

What will you choose?

To take or to give?
To be understood or to understand?
To resent or to forgive?
To live with fear or to live with love?
Because let me tell you something about this world,
on this world, the choice belongs to you

Tonight

only tonight will I not live In fear

I will dust myself off
and march onward

as is the gods themselves walked right beside me

you may call me bold

im just on a mission

He lay in a pool of blood...

More and more people started to crowd around him...

He looked left
Then up

A single tear emerged
Then rolled down his cheek

Not enough time

He mumbled through his teeth as
he groaned from the pain

More light...

More light...

Then he stopped moving completely

His eyes remained fixated in something he had in his hand
as he lay lifeless on the floor

So sullen
Sick and starved to take flight
He leaped off the tallest building he could find

As he leaped
He wore wry smile....
And not much of anything else...
..........
PLOP!

Bigger than a mountain
this magic runs though me
It swallows and collides
it makes my fears run and hide

No, no

there it begins anew
I'm off to satisfy it
I hope this hunger I never lose

Under a trance
He begins to shimmy

He leaves no move unmade
No bead of sweat would he ever trade

For this
His bliss

His lifeblood

His purpose

God help who doesn't feel it

"Pesky Humans..."
She thought to herself

After a few minutes of wondering what to do
she leaned over and asked mars

He wasn't very helpful

She cried out to her neighbor Venus,

but she was much too far to be able to hear her

So she just sighed
took a deep breath
shrugged her shoulders
and kept on smiling and being beautiful

Let me sleep for a plethora of ages
if only you would be mine

Let me wander the deserts forsaken by the lack of your figure divine

Let me be buried beneath all the hills with their cavernous caves and high peaks

I pray you, fair goddess, come take my hand
So that both you and I can be complete

Our sweet brother owl sits up on his tree
occasionally he lets out a sharp melody
All the notes, he lets out
are sturdy and stout
and quite loud, if you really ask me

I must've been dreaming
I saw everyone getting along,
all people
of all colors
They refered to each as
"brother" and "sister"
I asked about war & world hunger
They had no idea what those words even meant
They lived in giant tree houses
Most had very little possessions

Their wealth was their health
I must've been dreaming

I really wish i could be dreaming now

I believe therefore I become

Believe then act accordingly

Level with me

Is my heart too scarred to love again

Have my eyes been too blackened by hurt
to see clearly again

Am I

beyond hope?

It feels like it

"Absurd...this life makes no sense"

He sipped his cafe latte as he continued thinking

"I wish I could make sense of all this..."
"How I wish this all made sense..."

Suddenly he looked up and there she was....

They locked eyes...

Then she was gone...

*Again...

Brief brief!
The clock is a thief
it takes and it takes
all your days, minutes, weeks!

Last I remember
I was still just a boy
playing on swings
and screaming for joy

Now work and bill paying
fills my day, noon & night
grey hairs and back aches
fill my mind up with fright

So....

PLEASE

don't be wasteful
heed this message, dear friends
enjoy life to the fullest
from beginning to end

Brief brief!
The clock is a thief
so don't live with regrets
....
let them go...
...
See?
...
Relief ;-)

They never spoke

Both usually arrived at the coffee shop around the same time

Those hours right before the sun arose to share its brilliance with the world

For weeks they would always be the only two people in there that early

One brisk morning the old man glanced over his steaming cup
and spoke to the young man

He looked him dead in his eyes...

Always...
ALWAYS...
keep both eyes wide open
And never ignore what you see

The very next day the old man never arrived

He never saw him again...

Grit
Grime
One hell of a time

It's short, our stay
Our numbered days

They flutter...
And suddenly....

Wrinkles!?

Then....****....time to go

So...

Be free, for goodness sakes...
Be you....

It's all that matters....

He couldn't read or write

but he was sharp
like a tack

This was quite common in his village

the lack of schools
the lack of running water

the absence of basic necessities here was appalling

one night he thought he heard something moving
over by the door where the shoes and sandals were kept

in the morning, he went over to area where he heard
the sound the night before

he scanned around for a few minutes
until he saw it

a black mamba coiled up
sleeping inside one of
his little sisters shoes

Always...
ALWAYS...
*Always make sure...

Sit still

Listen

Carefully

to that voice that speaks

without words

Something quite magical is about to occur
I don't know many details,
but I'll tell you what I heard

Big mama is revolting!
She's had it up to here!
She's tired of humans and
their acting out of fear

Our end will be quick
So swift it will be
Will all humans gone
She'll fill up with glee

The tidal waves are coming...
I've been told to report
Accept your fate, fellow humans
Either you will or you won't

There's a tree by the edge of a cliff
Where ol Donald sits and wonders what if
should he jump to his death
he's got nothing left
but to hope that his end come quite swift

****

I forgot

What
I was
Going
To write