Innocence
Is arrogance
In worlds and cities
Of decadence
One thing
Rules above us all
The power can make even the noble fall
But what would you do
With all the power
And all the money in the world
The truth is merely
Corruption unfurled
Can you hear that chime
Steeped in rhythm
And in rhyme
I Cry as I find
A true assumption
We are all trapped
In a dimension
Of absolute corruption

Ever since the day I met you
I felt that I had always known you
And knew that I would do
Anything to have you
In my life
As time goes by
I realize
My life would be empty without you
You smile
For a while
And my heart leaps from my chest
We're not a love like the rest
All peons and serfs
Without a single shred of worth
Compared to your vibrance
You had me in a trance
I can hardly wait for that dance
that symbolizes
and energizes
A love flowing through my lingual art
On this our wedding day
A day of hearts
I vow to love you
Forever
I vow to hold you
Forever
I vow to hurt you
never
I vow my life to you
Forever
And i hope we will always remember
This heartfelt endeavor
Forever and ever
Until time takes its toll
Where i hope we may take a stroll
In a vast beautiful green park
And remember our wedding day
On a day of hearts

Mistrust
Misleading you
To meander through hate
Our fate
Is sealed
As glass slams against my flesh
I stand strong against the threat
Insanity grips her soul
Sarah, I do not love you anymore
You've lost your beauty
Lost your purity
Lost your touch
Your not worth as much
I've left you
Because you left me
Beaten and battered
How do you feel now
That our love is shattered

Morning ice
Upon my soul
You've returned
But you're so cold
My world is spinning
Insides decayed
Rotten to my core
I reach for your hand
But it's not there anymore
Will we ever be the same?
Inside my mind
I hear the raven whisper
Nevermore

Hopeless
Fearless
Useless
And restless
My life is drift wood
Floating silently
Down the river of life
My sliver of strife
Seems silver on sight
Many say I am demented
The right ones see
They see the core of me
I remain tormented
And then I disappear
Instantly
Nothing more than a memory

Where can start
With an Apollo heart
Where can I run
When chased by the moon and sun
An infinite race
With an Adonis face
A quick pace
In the presence of grace
Like Zeus I am powerful
Like Hades so sorrowful
With the temper of Aries
And as quick a wit as Hermes
I have an appetite so ravenous
Like kronos
And just as Dionysus
My parties are rapturous
So I find it difficult
Despite my piety
I believe I've failed
In finding one single
Equivalent diety

Red hair so fiery
Pale freckled skin so fresh and fierce
Thoughts so wiry
With honey brown eyes that pierce
My very being
I love what I'm seeing
When I look at her
My words find me again
No longer deterred
But still insane
Fame and fortune
No so important
A melodic tune
Aurally imported
This beauty, you know who you are
A vibrant shining sentiment
Put simply, a new star

I am a man
Full of misery
And doubt
So shout
If you feel my pain
Let it rain
And stay
For just a little while
Divide
Your vice
As I run outside
I realize
I am alive
And no one can stop me
Or drop me
The world is a blank canvas
As the colors take on my shape
I take a stand
As an ominous man

Dearest Darkness
Dearest Darkness
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
The world is in disarray
The nearest and farthest
Can you help me?
I will fight
Repair it anyway?
And no one cares
The world is living
The world is dead
But only slightly
Can we help ourselves?
Can we stop it?
Can you speak to me?
On what must happen

A fire of pride
A swarm of prejudice
Inside I hide
In dark malevolence
A light captured
A bone fractured
Fondness becomes love
Love becomes passion
Passion rises above
As hatred enters the fashion
Arrogance rises up inside
Makes it hard to oblige
The wishes of those around me
Pride turns to arrogance
Prejudice becomes hate
Arrogance and hatred are all I see

Religion
Is an ascension
to a higher being
seeing
the things
which bring forth an obsession
for information
lustful ways
give way
to what they say
will ruin the day
and then there's one thing
that rings
a truth
ricocheting from wall to wall
killing all
we fall to our knees and beg
but our prayers they fall upon deaf ears
no matter the years thrown into it
nothing to ease the tension
until we reach our ascension

She has fair skin
And crystal blue eyes
I can only love her within
I must let my passion hide
Unsure of whats ahead
Will I be a hero
Or will I be dead
Am I trapped at zero
Am I weighted down like lead
I look at her in a smokey haze
As I see her avoid my intense gaze
Will she know
Does she know
Can she know
What I wish I could show
Will she be
Can she be
The only one I see
I would say her name
But then this poem wouldn't be the same
And I would be playing a losing game
She is someone not to be tamed
She has to power to unlock my fame
She's the one in my aim
But I cant tell her
I cant see her
I cant be with her
A love, yes a love, that seems to fit like a glove
My heart beats
My mind thinks
I'll be nothing more than a silent love

Inside the pain erupts

A pain so bad it cuts

Into my skin

Down within

My soul

Turns cold

With every breath

Of air tainted with death

Heart break comes at a bad time

As insanity knocks at the doors of my mind

At best...
Im a stranger
Im a danger
to everyone around

At best...
I'm nothing
I'm no one
I blend in with the crowd

At best...
I speak to you
I inspire you
Can you hear the sound

Of hooves on the ground
Of horses back's bound
Of screaming in homes
As a vagrant roams
To find his next meal
Imagine how he feels

Hungry
Loneley
Lost

Invisible
Ignorable
Aside he is tossed

At the end of my life
I'll have won no real fights
I'll have given up my rights
And I'll turn off my lights
to die like the rest
Because thats who i am...at best

You're leaving
On a trip of majesty and wonder
Your reading
A poem by your lover
Parts of it make you cry
Others scare you to death
There are parts where you ask Why?
There are parts where you hold your breath
Through all of this it makes you smile
The fact that you'll see me in a while
Like you've never left at all
You know I'll always know where you are
In short au revoir, mon etoile
Goodbye my star

A cold winter draws near
Darkness lives here
As snow whirls around
There comes a booming sound
War approaches
Like lightning, so quick
An enemy encroaches
A land, prosperous and thick
Archers and swordsman
Join the fray
A cavalry of horsemen
Clashes here this day
Death is a venerable vintage
A wine of blood and gore
A variable incentive
For the hoards to go to war

Blood is flowing from my veins
Settling in darkness
At the bottom of this glass
I hold this chalice to your face
And shudder as you drink deep
This drink
A drink of death
A small taste of hell
And well
The goblet is my power
My very own holy grail
Because
Death is a venerable vintage
A spirit of blood
A wine of gore
A variable incentive
As the hoards begin their war
Another song
That sounds the same
But some how different
And not in vain

Words
Are the things I write
Combined with an image
It becomes poetry
Can't you see
It's not the words
It's not the rhythm
It's not the rhyme
It's the time
The feeling
Revealing
All you've written
In my opinion
As merely words on a page
Though I'm not a poetic sage
I am a poet filled with rage
Not a fighter for the armies of the world
A soldier
In this war of words

There's a rumbling
In my mumbling
Stumbling
Into nothing
And something
Comes true
Whether a dream
Or a wish
It's up to you
So what to do
Be the tool
Or act the fool
Pull up a stool
And drink
And think
But mostly sink
Into everything
You thought my words were gone
I was only resting
And wrestling
My mind
Simply trying to find
Balance

A sharp pain

In vain

Stuck in my life

Inside my back is this knife

Brought by my friends

Who fell from loyalty

To win their own royalty

Jealousy

Hypocrisy

Denial

And betrayal

Or is it...

No color
No feeling
No honor
In stealing
Another
It pulls at our limbs
Strikes rock against flint
to make a fire
of desire
to Drag us in
No color
No feeling
None other
Trapped and peeling
No skies
As we die
We fall victim
To an attack
Trapped in a system
Painted black

Virulent virtue
Variably veering
Away
A coldness so dire
My own frozen fire
Desire
Is abstract
Attack
The ones who yearn for life
We are guardians
We are the bricks
Your blood is the mortar
A red wall made slick
By your gruesome torture
The future
Is oblique
I seek
An answer
For the weak

She chewed me up
And spit me out
She ****** me in
Now I want to shout
As my fury rises
The pain hypnotizes
Totally mesmerizes
And now I cry
For love once gained
But is now lost
I feel that I've been tossed
Aside
I cant hide
From this tangle of lies
She claims to love another
Yet she meets me under covers
And now she left me in the dirt
Lonely and hurt
And now I'm sure
In every bone
And every joint
I'm all alone
Soaring past my boiling point

Boredom comes
And boredom goes
Boredom shrinks
And boredom grows
None of you can see
What boredom knows
Can you make it through
What boredom sows

My heart is a mirror
Shattered like glass
I look into my past
and feel the pain
of my life and times
Lost all in one day
Those voices are stirring
My veins are all burning
My muse is gone
My fuse lit
I sing this song
And here i sit
Wondering what if i could change my actions
To cure this fatal attraction
To freeze the motion of this reaction
Decisions
Death
Illusions
No breath
Confusion
Ahead
My vision
Of my corpse lifeless and dead
My heart is a mirror
In which i see my true self
A loneley pathetic man
Who stands alone and grand
Where ocean meets sand
I stare into the glass
Trying to forget my past
Yet i find myself back where i started
Inside this shattered mirror
Of the broken hearted

The mother of my child
Is the most beautiful person I've ever laid eyes on
I may not deserve her
But I do have her
Through all the bad I've done
I still feel as if I've won
Some cosmic contest
Of collaborative conquest
But i digress
Should you find
A love like mine
That freezes time
For you
Don't dilly
Or dally
I'm being silly
Life in this valley
Seems livable
When I look at her face
Listen to her voice
Everything is choice
I know it's sappy
And you probably cant stand this
But I just have to say
I love you Candice

Life has a funny way
Of driving us almost insane
And pulling back
Just in time
For you to feel ashamed
Sometimes it throws a curve
Causing a momentary swerve
To avoid what we deserve
I watch these people
Trapped
Lost
Clinging to a dream
They know in their hearts
Is gone with the wind
While
All the while
Theres been something good
Waiting in the wings

The world has a funny way
Of making us waste
Away
Never siezing that day
Lie in wait
Just to alleviate
Pain

Because we're all a little broken
A little out spoken
But broken all the same
But.....

I dont want to wait anymore
**** it
This opportunity is knocking
And I'm opening that door
I feel these changes coming
This adventure I adore
And did I mention?
I have a question

Am I also
What you've been looking for?

Merrily
And warily
The girl does spin around
Jubilantly
Exuberantly
The girl does hum a sound
A face
Of grace
And slightly comical
Her hair be blonde
Her eyes be blue
With a tiny pointed nose
Freckles dance upon her face
Like music from another place
Where she's from no one knows
From a world
Of little black lines
The girl does find
Another life