As another sunset befalls the world

all is silently asleep

The trees cast off their summer skin and fall into their dreams

as does all life on earth

When she lays us down and numbs our minds

with her vast white blanket on our world

The moon and her phases of life after life reins this barren world

For she has been cast out into the shadow to rule a lifeless world

Then the sun rises and a new world awakens

never learning

just reliving.

Smoke dances from my lips
Out here were there is no laws, no rules
As I sit on the rough concrete steps with the moths and the ash
as my solemn companions
The street lights stare as the heat settles close,
sweat rolling heavily off my brow
The embers speak of the god I no longer care for
in pure words so ancient only the old oaks know them
Devils wretch themselves from the smoke and dance around me
Satan himself sits beside me, kissing my lips, sweet like sin
He sits silently with me
Golden eyes like slits
I bring the **** of my cigarette to my sullen lips
and take a sugar coated drag
My lungs brimming with peace
God turns his thorny head
With a wave of his pure almighty hand
A wicked grin spreads out on the fluid curve of
my lips
I am condemned

Like a shawl slipped from my shoulders
Whistling in the wind
Around my head and through my fingers
Slick like oil and pure like snow
I reached for it and it was there no more
Nothing to hide behind
A child no more
Gone from my eyes in a blink
A soft good bye
With nary a word nor sign that it had gone
And once it had, there was no getting it back

The sea
The wave
The surf
Kissing eyelashes and brushing against the skin
As the tide washes in
The only thing that matters is the temptation
How it calls to you
The seduction of it
As it taunts you with sin soaked lips
Lust brushes against you
The tantalizing touch is all but too much to bare
Pulling you under the churning waves
The dark whispers soft things in your ear
As the vastness takes you under
It creeps in your lungs and steals your breath away
Your breath is gone
Your lungs are fill with salty temptation like a mistress
All you have to do is close your eyes
And be swallowed

You smoothed the scars on my mangled skin
And brushed your finger tips to mine
You painted some sort of light in these dim eyes
And loved me when I couldn't
You sat me up straight and wiped the dread away
Now, when I close my eyes
I dream of you tomorrow

I am shallow like a kitty pool
And sad
With a youthful recklessness that makes me blind
And stupid
How moronic I've been
To think
That I deserve
Be hold the creation of decay