Her crown reigns short
But stands out from among the trees
Her bark is soft
She is unmatched in beauty
When I drew near
Her flowers were clear
No shade of color worthy

Yes, my lady
That shadow is gone
The slipping silhouette
Real light shines through
Radiating the truth
I **** my head away
My eyes shrink
And belly aches
I held it in
Released it yesterday
Time not defined
For it is nothing
Yes, I do
You aren’t worth my tears
My biggest fears
You cover your self in ***** truth
Deception
Contraception
I speak your language well

The Sampaguita Bloom

That soft aroma

It encased me for days

Kept locked in your aura

The flickering candle

Kindling in your eye

The pink curve

That beauty, called your smile

It lingers here

A memory forever

The future now

Who knows what will whether?

You fabricate
Your paper mache heart
With the hollow voices
Of the men you love
You subjugate
Loves binding strings
Making something meaningless

You wander
Wonder about what’s beyond
Gather
The looks and stares from everyone

They can’t see
Inside, what is happening
Black blood
Coursing to an empty shell
What once was is gone away

You aim for everest
With only the skill to cross a hill
You wait for gold
When silver is handed to you
You **** your head, bewildered
Offended I'd reach out to you
A corpse sitting quietly
Ready to decay
Delay, postpone salutations
Till a ring would have no place to hang
Keep waiting on prince charming
No one wants the farmer
Every peasant girl is a princess
And every man is a pauper

Passion is a well well fracked
Keep pumping
But the earth is dry
There's not enough for tears
Not enough for life
The clay is baked
The shape is set
Your attempts form cracks
But the expression remains
Look into my eyes
Pottery glazed
Underneath I pray for rain

Your ghost haunts me daily
It looms over my head
Fills me to my feet
Overburdening and overflowing
Melancholic love
Consuming
A smile would give life to an apparition
A moment in your eyes
One moment before the rest
A touch can soothe the burns
A moment lost in caress
One moment before the rest
The spirit fades into memory
And you in its place
I lay down my arms
I prostrate at your feet
My fears laid open before you
One moment before the rest

Trance
Enchantress
Take a chance tonight

Grasses bend and wave
Smoke plays with the moon
That light coming through
From where its arms can’t reach
Gray and blue

God has lit a trillion candles
Flames flicker off the mantle
The scent of wood perfumes
While its warmth consumes

Under cover
Where skin slides so smooth
Whispering words
I can’t quite make from you
Something says you’re sorry
Others say I love you too

Are we dreaming?
What’s happening in this quiet room?
Laying in dark
My eyes closed
And it feels like I’m not alone

My eyes won’t open
My body can’t let it go
Just one more moment
To lay here with you
I can feel the hair
Brush across my face
I know my lips are dry
But why is it you I taste?

I'm not a word smith
I don't strike iron
But irony strikes me
Pretty peculiar
The lines I give birth to
Full of wisdom
Yet I don't heed
I craft my rhymes with a whittling knife
Form a pencil, stab myself in the heart, then write
I bleed on to this canvas
With each beat squirting splatter
You could finger paint a red Picasso
But face it, your frame can't hold this much gray matter

I'm on the borderline
Of inspiration and suicide
Can I change my life?
Or leave an ugly corpse

Hello
Did you have a moment to read?
For what are words if not heard?
And what are lines if not seen?

I just wanted to share my disappointment
It's been haunting all my dreams
But this is real now
And reality feels bleak

I'm just a coward
Who can't find the words to speak
So I hide behind my pretty lines
Using metaphors and similes

To euphemize this euthanasia
The euphoric must be beat
Throw away those hopes of mine
And all the memories

Time to say goodbye
I'd learned to fly
But you,
You clipped my wings

I'm an alien
I don't speak
I'm an alien
Communication weak
I'm an alien
Distant beside you
Misunderstood and invisible
Not hostile
Somewhat gullible
Abduction is seductive
Or a huge turn off
Known only to few
From a world of one
I'm just an explorer
Touring you

Blanket statements keep you warm
Silent and peaceful beneath
Safe from harm
There you dream
Black and white
Chromatic reason
You're a just adjudicator
The world full of sinners
Deliver your sentence
Without repentance
Burn the heretics at the stake
After all
Consider what's at stake
Justice for just us
Just as they deserve

When you found me
At my weakest
My front, at its strongest
Palisades erected
And your questions deflected
Yet now I long to be one with your form
Your words rained down
Golden arrows of sun
They bit and pierced
The layers off the wall
Your smile exposed me
And now I long to be one with your form
I don't think you're a mind ****
But you penetrated my brain
My thoughts now consumed by you
My words can do little to explain
But I long to be one with your form
Wrapped tightly around one another
With my lips for comfort
Embracing the night
Rowing in unison
Squeeze me with your limbs
I'll go much deeper
When your pulse quickens
And the milk thickens
We'll give birth to nirvana
And be consumed with each other

She, with her plastic intention
Sweet smell, and rancid thought
Ran her finger from her lip
Her ******* tangle
Legs spaced at the knee
And her Her hair in a dangle
Penetrating eyes, that overcome my doubt
Perfect curves, image of fruit
Juicy and ripe, and ready to burst
Though sweet, it is sour
Though disturbing, so tempting
On hands and knees she crawls to me
Eyes never move
Heart cannot beat
Still locked, her hand now on me
I fall to the ground
And fall twenty feet
Her blanket around my brush
My hand in her touch
The red pair comes closer
They slip onto my face
I fall once more, into outer space
A wild vine grows rapidly around us
In the silence we scream
In our breath we roar
In my mind I forget
I release my reason
She is real
If not for another time
Just to exist right now
Stripped of my mind
Stripped to my body
Entangled in her roots, to rest the night
And to fuse, lose my sight
Make a river run down us
And never turn up soil
Get buried under it
And stay
In me, away
Her intention
Such devious intentions
Will I forget
Or fall down again

I know you're out there
You visit in sleep like a tooth fairy
You stalk chimneys, a saint in the night
You live somewhere between fairy rings and neverland
You work somewhere between daydreams and reality
I know you're real
You must be
My belief gives you life
I light your eyes
I imagine your smile
I live somewhere between your skin and heart
I work somewhere you can never be
I know you are more than a daydream
But why are you just a fantasy?

Blue cascades
In the long
Long and weary days
The night is mine
The day is lost
The moon my friend
And the sun is gone

It burns slow
With each drag
My fuel is dwindling
Dreaming of sweet kindling
You hold in your hands
Physical perfection
Visions of a face
Lost in direction

No words leave my mind
Of love or lust
I’m not that blind
People burn
People Feed
People are all
Everything that becomes me

Solitude is multitude
Seclusion an illusion
You are here
But never there
I am where
My words are fair
A poison most annoying

Time is our ally
And also our enemy
Your heart and hormones
Destroy all your dignity
In a mass confusion
Head trauma
You see what you want

The future holds for you
A clue so bold
It’s a wonder you don’t see it now
Cradling your heart
Is me
With hands wide open
And my mind in synch
I am the all-forgiving deity
The step that lifts
When you cannot reach
I see the child within you
And the adult that’s bursting out
I see everything you do
Love a word, this could be
Maybe love this is, maybe

Truth and loyalty
Placed before
It yours
Take all that I give
Friend or lover
It matter neither
To all of you
I love

My addiction
So sadistic
Hands and feet
Face and legs
Quench it
And For this I fall
Rapidly plummeting
Trace discrepancy
Codependency
You are my drug
My everything

I'm a high rope walker
But I'm not an entertainer
I balance through day
And never dream at night
It's always one inch
To plummet
To fall inwards
Scuttling past the demons
The faces of those who inflict me
Their apparitions shake the line
And they grin as I slip
The rope has no end
And neither in front or behind
Can I see where it began
It seems freedom is clear
To let go and fall inwards
Into my darkness
Into sweet sleep
Perhaps I will live on as something more
Or just an occasional passing memory

You may not understand my words

But you can read my eyes

What is lost in translation

Can always be seen in my smile

Your hand in mine

My heart rises high

And it's a simple thing to say

What other words could phrase

That I'm lost

I'm falling in love

And no language can separate

The corpses feed
The walking dead
They swallow preservation
That keeps the mold from the bread
Overworked organs overfill with poison
The heart pumps formaldehyde
Through pressured pipes
The extra pounds squeeze
The dead to the earth
But they keep walking
And talking
And working
Till they can no more
They call it life
But they never live

I keep my words whispered
Though I'm screaming inside
These feelings are punishment
To keep my heart in line

Embracing you is masochism
Writhing and feeling alive
Encased by you
The body's natural high

Legs lock
Mouths dance
Hands pull
Eyes glance

You reside inside
That girl laying next to me
I'll be gone
And you'll never hear my whispers
I took them with me
Though I left something behind
I'll swallow words
Till I can say them to another

The watering hole is where the species congregate. It is where fertile flowers pollinate the air with pheromones. It is where I feel most removed from society. I can never compete with the verulante baboons pounding their chest and flashing their *****. I can never measure up to the towering beasts who sip the water here. These doe would never share a drop with me.

If you don't exist
Then neither should I
I'll enter Tartarus alone
And never see another night

Because the sun has no radiance
Without you, the atomic spark
Just a hollow disk in the sky
Giving life to the world
And warmth to all, but I

If you don't exist
All I breathe is monoxide
The atrophy burns my limbs
Till I lay down to die
If I turn to dirt now
Perhaps you'd exist in another life

If our souls return to stars
You could find me close to Mars
Waiting for my binary love
But If you don't exist
Then neither should I
And I will burn out
A shooting star in the sky

You put a stopper in my heart
The love flows over
Nowhere for it to go
Leaks out when I'm sober

Milk my mind for creative juices
Take a sip and be inebriated
Stumble and walk
Stutter and talk
Be transported
Your mind in another world
While your body falls short

You poke the ashes hoping for some heat
Your eyes fixate on the gray
But there is no red
Consuming cold
These coals have long been dead

There's nothing here but the corpse of a fire
But I'll smile for you
If that will keep you warm

It's a familiar burn

Callused skin is numb

I keep touching it

expecting a different outcome

And is it me or them?

Who to blame

I can only give what I concieve

This thing they call love

I know no other

Beneath the bruises and scars

My fingertips still reach out to touch

What I give, I give fully

And perhaps that is my folly

I'll sever the skin left bare to feel

No exposure, no more

I'm incredible
Inedible
Unless you're a cannibal
Definitely bedible
To make some love
Stroke some rough
Give tough love
So bend over
Go forward
Close your eyes
And feign sober
Enjoy this moment
As I give you bliss

The gusts were blowing
Our faces turned ice
Your hand was frozen
But so warm to touch
The leather burned cold
Though we were left buzzing
We were high, floating
From the heat just inside
Such a wonderful night
The strokes on canvass
Contrasted the world outside
But inside here, a little cabin
Your smile was fire
And your lips were flames
But I'd burn my mouth and blister
For another taste
Because next to you
I felt no cold
We make heat
You are bold
And as the gusts blow
Next to you is like paradise
Somewhere far
Somewhere warm

A man covered
Shadows for sheets
And little rays that pierce the protection
Pillows of hope
They reek of flowers, feminine
Stiff with the mortis
All seems to be alive
Yet there are no beats
His skin is warm
His face is wet
All outside is booming and thumping
The incandescent lights shine
Door creaks closed quietly
No one comes to him here
Not one bothers to break this illusion
As a picture reel runs over memories
The Flowers permeate
Inducers of emotions
That glow violently in his mind
This room, his room
A mecca for all that’s gone
All the relics lay scattered around
Visual stimulation
Stubs and papers, Poems and pictures
Remind him
Music plays softly
He can hear it in the background
The songs of his faith
He is in love
He knows this now
She is nothing
But he is always there to jump
He is always there to run
Manipulate everything
To make the world hers
And now this is only place she lives
In comfort alone, under cover
With pain to release her
And water to ease her
Fermented drinks to cease her
Like the one I sip now
To write horribly
With this tainted mind
I shut the door and press play
Its time to remember
Its time to pray

There's a fire that dances
Whimsical and true
Encased in flesh
Quite beautiful

The flames burst from brown
Wide open in white
Everything she touches
Burst forth with life

Tempered by heart
Twice as warm as the flames
But raging with vitality
That nothing can tame

I gazed into this fire
Amazed with wonder
I danced to her tune
I felt the hunger

Laid open and bare
The fires consume
But I'd turn to ash with her
And smile in the plumes

Let me register
Mechanical or electronic
Make motions
Or Fire synapses
Cause I'm about to cash out.

Libate, gyrate with me
Simple motions
Complex moans
Lubricate my soul

The Stains are memories
The frame has marks
The springs buckle
The wood no longer whole

Blurs in the night lite
Four arms
Four legs
Spread cotton and lace

****** to my pain
Your touch is numb
It calms my mind
The rush of empty bliss

The leaves frost over
The rabid cold bites skin
It's mid August
But the sun has no power here
Gray and blue haunt us
Frozen slabs of granite
Each breathe perilous
The earth gives way to darkness
Hibernation
In winter never ending
The ice ceases beating
The plants dry and wither
Sooner or later
All succumbs to winter

Your skin is silk
No matter how rough
I love the way you stare
The way you move
When we ****
Your hips have mind
Your legs have life
In this moment I know love
In this moment I'm alive
Passion is a drug
And only you can get me high

I'm a drug dealer
You can find me on the street
At the corner
Did you break something carelessly?
Come get your fix
I've got something for you
It's the latest obsession
To millions of kids
Just keep your head down
Don't take your eyes off this
This will help you stay social
Even if you're feeling depressed
It's immersive
A unique quick fix
It'll get your fingers shaking
Phantom tingles in your leg
Dopamine from a screen
It's the new iPhone X

I'm an Android
But not as smart
My brain is void
Here's a gift
Please love me
I don't know how to feel
But I know I love you
The circuits fire
Metal skin perspires
Rusty muscles give life
To vestigial programs
Boot my heart
My CPU flutters
I'm just a metal man
A tin can that shakes hands
I smile, while processing your desires
I wish had the light
That spark of life
The comprehension of human dimension
But my domain remains plastic
Metal and silicone
But I'll overload my circuits
It's worth it
Just to feel you

What's the cost?
A compaynionship
I bet it's too much

Old man Jack slowly sips his life away
The same old worn out bar top
Swallows his lager with hate
The cracked protruding pavement
Walking home, dim lights guiding the way
To an empty apartment
A studio in disarray

Blame the ex wife
Blame the immgrants
But Jack will never change
Alcohol can make you tough
It's the American way

Living in dystopia
Living the American dream
Reality can be sobering
Loneliness is king

While the cities flood
The homeless drown
Technically distracted
People move on
Species die
But my iPhone recharges
Quiet ignorance
Evolutionary *******

The bones rot out from our faces
While we Socially isolate
Surface level understanding
Swallowed by earthquakes
The billion dollar stare
The American way

Living is dystopia
Living the American dream
Digitally dehumanized
Loneliness is king

Ignore the other
Reject your mother
Poison your brother
Together we suffer
Fat, sick and dying
Cull the black sheep
Genius is weak
It's the American way

Living in hell
Living in the modern world
Wealthy, mentally castrated, and high
Popping pills to stay alive
America on life support
While the whole world dies

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A shadow that speaks
A shadow that reeks.
Keep your head down, darling
You're better a memory

You and me
We could be poetry
But you and I
Are living lies
But the world is wrong
And you've accepted it's answer
Release your love and come much closer

Look over me
You can't see my genius towering
My mind leaving stacks
You can't comprehend
They'd leave you drowning
Mouth open in awe
You'd gasp for air
As I pound it deeper
Past your throat
Mind *******
All you see is me
Little portagee
But my words will change the earth

They call it chasing the dragon
Those addicted to drugs
But what do you call it
When you're addicted to love?
Those tingling sensations
Butterflies and temptations
Because baby you
You get me so high
The way I feel
Like its the first time

And there were two
One to give in
And one to refuse
But it’s not me
I swear it’s not me
That’s talking to you
Something is changing
Splitting deep inside
I am trapped behind
The person I hide
Smoke rises slowly
To ceiling where I reside
And the fuel burns
As it goes down
Where memories die
I’m thinking in a new way
A new way, not the good kind
And my world is ending
But my body will survive
In this twisted form I give
The twisted words I say
I tell them all to you
Inching hearts closer
Bodies sicken
My skin is getting closer
Closer to friction
Come, please come soon
The soul needs release
Passion to make me a fool

Darkness feels
From ear to ear
Cold and warm
Soft and numb
Flying freely into space
What have I become?

Stars pass through my eyes
And light exits through my brain
Time stands still in my ear
Tasting all the drops of rain
The world is upon me once again

And what are hearts?
Not meant to break
And what is love?
Not meant to take
Will someone please, walk me down this way?

The never-ending corridor
White walls
With infinite doors
No ceiling
And no floors

Walk with me, hand in mine
And show me where I can find time
My hand on the ****
Turn it for me and open wide
With your lonely key
You’ve kept inside

What a world behind this door
Hell or paradise
I’m not sure
Depression in expressive waves
Dimly lit and Fading away
Invoking all emotion
The motions law that you made
Gravity is something gray
My heart slows to a shallow beat
I pull the ground from my feet
And I find that no one is here but me

Love is a world far away
Passion exists only today
Chemical seduction
My body’s abduction
A natural imbalanced high
Give me my drug
And **** the pain
Straight from to vein
And to the brain
Addiction bleeds from the heart
Spilling out across the sea
The door opens from behind
And once again, I know me

Darkness feels warm and home
Alone in space again I go
Microcosm in my mind
The heart dies with the fading stars
The mind goes with each passing day
Alone to float across
An empty shell that once
One day maybe something more
Till you come out
And push me through the door

I love the way you envelope me
Like a blanket on a cool night
You protect me from a cold breeze
Because you comfort me
No liquid fire
No fiery herbs
Just the warm embrace of nothing
Calcium infused collagen
Guide me into sleep
Awake is a nightmare
Relax me
Slow to breathe
What is left is insignificant
What is forward doesn't matter
Legacies are earned
Not worth a stain to be remembered
Understanding would flatter
Am I mad?
I look forward to the answer

The eyes pass
Flicker
Don't stare into the sun
I'll burn a hole straight through
Your aversion
*******
I might as well be a ghost