You come to me with a smile
A Trojan horse
You don't want to hurt me
But you know you will

And as much as my city walls
Are impenetrable
I let you in
And that was my biggest mistake

Heavy as a thousand tons
Weighing down my worrid mind
Minutes meaning less and less
Degenerating bones and flesh
And all I'm left with
Is a feeling of dread
And a voice inside my head saying

Trouble

Heavy as a thousand stones
Being thrown its all my worried mind
This little rose I try to hold
These thorns and then I let it go
And all that I have left
Is healing hands and helping words
And a voice inside my head saying

Trouble

Heavy as the world I love
Spinning around inside my head

No wing is not broken
For the bird who most needs to fly

It was
Never
About filling empty spaces
It was
Only
About finding places to belong

Let the dark day come
When he finds his wings
Can't deliver him

No river meets the ocean
For the big fish in the little pond

It was
Never
About leaving the comfort of home
It was
Only
About finding a place he could belong

Let the dark day come
When he finds the current
Can't deliver him

No poet is not troubled
No poet is not troubled
Let the dark day come
When he finds that art
Can't deliver him

And I really wanted
That together
We would grow old
But instead
Seperation
Helps me to know

True love
Is that of one
Who keeps loving
After he's been hurt

And we could have grown old
And died together
But I never would have known

How much I really love you

My inner monster says destroy
My inner god says light that is brighter
Shines brighter
My nihistic side says none of that matters
But the whole point being

Who would anyone read Romeo and Juliet
If instead of taking their lives
Because of love
They lived together happily ever after?

True love
Is the ability to sacrifice
For someone else
It is never happily ever after

I know its hard to trust
Not after all anyone goes through
After all everyone goes through
After all its only love
Its only pain
Its only life

I know it's hard to trust
And after all that I've been through
I never should again
But I know I will
I have a want
Becoming need

And I don't want to be hurt again
But nothing hurts more
Than feeling that my pain
Defines me
I don't want to be hurt again
But I know its worth the risk

I always believed
Not in Bigfoot
Not fuzzy footage that's revealed as fake
Not traipsing footprints in the hillside
I always believed
Not in megalodon
As though I could believe in all sincerity
A forty foot shark roams the ocean unnoticed
I always believed
Not in ancient aliens
Living under oceans since the beginning
Atlantis sinks and the Bermuda triangles curse
I always believed
In you
God how I hope
What I believe is truth

Nobody wants to hear truth
Truth hurts
But I'm addicted to pain

I always believed
Not in god
But in whatever it is
God does

Maybe giving us reason
Or giving us meaning
That whatever pain we feel
Is all a part of a plan

I always believed
Because the truth is
I can't live my life
Without believing in something

Deeply embedded in the mire of thought
In the war prisons of the enemies
In the night that separates and unites
Our disparate cities
I hold you inwardly
Everything I ever do
Is shrouded in a black and white painting
A still shot of what we thought we would be
And is the color I see
The color of my fingertips
Touching the clouds
And other things I can't hold onto to
We plant a seed together
But without water it never grows

What do we have?

One thing I've learned
Its never what you expect
So stop expecting
And enjoy instead
Whatever it is
Whatever it turns out to be

Winter turns into spring
The world is always turning
Night turns into day
Just find someone who's turning

And you will come around

All the soil has been turned over because we are waiting on a harvest of potatoes and corn, and even the clouds in the sky become ominous signs promising warnings of rain

All the soil had been turned over by our backbreaking soul shattering work because we know without our effort we will surely starve and be empty souls

All the soil has been turned over because we know that spring is coming soon and the new seeds that we plant will surely become our sustenance

All the soil has been turned over in hopes of the future

Still I can't forget the past when the harvest moon brought a promise of enough food to last me the rest of my life when I could dine forever on dishes that never get old

As I walk
A twig would trip me up
I'll never get where I'm going
With even molehills as mountains
And it rips me up
It tears away at me
Like my insides still are bleeding
From a trauma
My mind forgot

As I sail
This twisted ocean
My transistor radio
Sends me signals from sirens
Until I have to find an island
That once I reach
I'll never return
I want to hear that song
And I'll die happy

And as I fall
I only hope I'm lucky enough
To miss the ground
And start to fly

Just love
Long eyes like good heart
Know life
Make time tell
Fingers want soul
Soft body

Dust comes
Sun weight lady burning
Care wings
Twisted limbs poetry
Hard legs and fragile arms
Flesh dreams

******
Burning towns to ashes
Machine guns
Even if they miss they still hit
Atomic bombs
If you dont die from the blast
             You die from radiation

Bazookas
Cannons
Rapiers
Chemical war fare

Bullets **** your body

Love is the ultimate weapon**

It can **** your soul

******
Machine gun
Atomic bomb

Love is the ultimate weapon

Seven billion people
And fewer poets
If you ask me why
My reply

Poetry makes a man think
And we simply can't have that

Come on along, or go alone

I've heard them say
A penny for your thoughts
Well if I had a nickel
I'd head for beggars tomb

I'd call a tune
And listen to uncle Johns band

Come on along, or go alone

A leader of the counter culture
I build underground cities
With foundations of hidden gems
And solid gold

My songs you won't hear on the radio

A leader of the unappreciated
I'm told all the things I know
Are things that cannot matter
That don't make money

But that can change the way the people see the world

A leader of the different
The ones that really don't care
About being a puzzle piece that fits
Into existence

The different way is the right way

I am a leader
Of a group of gangly thieves
Stealing from the rich
To give to the poor

And dying for the chance to change the world

And we built cities underground
Where our music
And our words
And our views
Can be understood

And she told me
"You see
That's your problem
Your always trying to understand,"
So I replied
"Right now
I'm only trying to understand
Why even if I can't understand
I'll still want to be there for you."
And I think from the look in her eyes
The silence of her reply
She was trying to understand
Why I love her so much

I told her
"I'm a bad boy,
With a good heart,"
She told me
"Isn't that
A contradiction?"

Maybe she's starting to understand
Something I don't understand myself

I will drop
D
   R
      O
         P
Drop
Each ounce of energy

Its not silly blood upon a page
It is soul
Life force
Every star I am born from

Transmogrified into words

Still

I will
Bleed
Lose my teeth
From biting too hard
I'll suffer the scars

I know
And it hurts me
I know
When you look up in the night

You don't see stars

Let the words
Be said
Unheard

Now its valentines day
About a month ago I wouldn't have cared
But things change
And I suppose I do love her
So now I have to spend money I don't have
On a pointless hallmark holiday

I guess I'm just unlucky

I say the most meaningful things
And know the meaning when it goes unnoticed

Art cannot exist
Within such selfishness
Beauty dies alone
Unnoticed

The best example of unconditional love
Is loving someone
Who doesn't love you

And even the stones
That create a walkway to the garden
The stepping stones
Are left unturned
And even the strings
On my favourite guitar
The one I always play
Are left untuned
And even the words
I knew that I should say
The one's I needed when my feelings stood in the way
Are left unsaid

Still

This was simple
This a straight blade
This my falling
Edges burn
No more reason
Never was one
Just was trying
Only something

And I can't hold on
Through the night
How can I?

And for me
The pain hurts more
The bonds
Are stronger
The love is deeper
And the need for revenge....

Is the one thing I need to let go of

Look, please understand
I know I'm not the graestest
But I take one step at a time
With a goal in my sight

And when circumstances
Become a burden
A pain I can't handle
I stop and evaluate myself

Why is it this way?
Is there anything I can do?
Anything I can say?
What should I be?

Well, I'm not perfect
But I love you
And I know if I'm going to show you
I have to accept my pain

And during the lows
I remember the highs
And know that in the darkness
There still is light

My campaign
I am smart enough
To recognize
When a rose is not a rose
A rose is not a rose

I often dream
Even when my mind is waking
I often dream
That you are Aphrodite

And in my dreams
The ancients craft their stories
About the ultimate beauty
And its a tribute made for you

And it is true
That Helen caused a war
I often dream
That you would be my peace

It's love
Its not rocket science
But it might as well be

You can overcome
The way it hits you
You can wear the world
And make it fit you

Short poems
Are the very successful on this site
Because?

People don't want to commit to thought

This is
A chronic complaint of mine
And still

I may be sick, I live on without dying

Can I do anything I put my mind to?
I sure as **** hope I can

Isn't life that way
Crowded city streets
Breathing stop lights
Singing automobiles
Quiet in the country
White picket fences
And tire swings
The sky full of stars

There are dinosaurs in the grocery store
And new born babes leading companies
And psychopaths becoming millionaires
And then theres you, and then there's me

Because life is that way
Movies in the theaters
Actors sway to the sound of a muse
Under staunch direction
But we're on a stage
Its not all pretend
We eat our food
And our medicine

Still dinosaurs roam the earth
And children play on slides
And crazy fools play emperors
And I can see, and you can see

Hello poetry confirmed my belief
In cynacism
If a poet can't live for others
Death is better

I want
Well I don't want anything
I only bought the car
So I could get away
Work the job
Bills I have to pay
Have the girl
Because she wants me
Took the drug
To understand why

I want
To be a shaman
A medicine man
A wise old man
With nothing in my hands

In a world flux with desires
I want peace

Lonely raging storm
Born inside war
Eating suns
The poets cry
Meaningless
The crow dies

The greatest men will become trees
With roots eternal
Heaven provide shelter for me
The silver smiling woman

Sad knows soon
High skies breathe
Endless flame
This crooked origami
Shorelines perfection
This red flower

The greatest men not comfort stained
Of pure intention
Lead my noble crusade
With your beautiful silence

Energy goes up and down
And I
Wouldn't have it any other way

I thought that I was happy
I end up feeling used
And you do too
I guess love is either won
Or lost
Or it never was at all

Peace on earth
Once the bombs fall
We can't be wrong
You could never be wrong
And as the world draws to close
On its last spin
The bombs are smiling
Knowing we can't be right
Carry in your arms
Such preconcieved notions
As the money of nations
Becomes the dust
Once the bombs fall
Peace on earth

We always wanted a utopia

God being dead
And a ninety-nine cent hamburger
We only want our wisdom in chicken
Nuggets of truth
What we value is on a menu
We never stop
We drive thru
The burger king
The dairy queen
The price we pay
God being dead
From a heart attack
Caused by high cholesterol

Even through his blue
He painted starry night
His favorite chair
His favorite pipe
And a sealed up bag containing
Hashish
He could not smoke the pain away

A missing ear becomes a symbol
Only the madness of knowing
Ear lobe
His love
The way no one else does
*****
No numb could take the pain away

Van Gogh
Died poor
And alone
In a field that was
His last expression
He died by his own hand
It wasn't even raining

It should have been

She confuses honey
And poison
No wonder she will die
With sweetness on her lips

Well I chose wine
Over water
So instead of being healthy
I am drunk

And I can't be strong enough
To save a soul

Or two

I woke up to hammers playing songs in my brain about the sky
My fingers ****** from holding you in my dreams
Waves of light crashed into the rocky shoreline of my eyes
And my stare bore a hole through the paper I was holding
With no intentions of reading even the headlines

The only story that I know
I remembered the body of a woman
The dimpled smile too simple but complicated
The beautiful dimples on her lower back
It was on earth where I held venus

I woke up the same way as before
But somehow everything was strange
I was exhausted from the way you loved me in my dreams
And the way I'll never see you again
I woke up
And I was too tired to drink my coffee

Video games made me crazy
Or did I play video games
The way a mad man would

It was strange imagination that led you to me
Too many miles and even more borders
I didn't dream
But I believe
My fingers only reaching through such space
My violent star in the night
Fiery, burning with passions
I couldn't see
What I felt
My love
This combustion
Internal
This raging source of light
Shine over me
My violent star in the night
I'm only skin to feel your heat