I have felt the pain
the beauty skin deep vain
that attracts moth to flame

It loves to come back round
returning to it's start
The home from which it came
kind of at the heart

You're likely to gain more
Then you could ever hope to spend
A game without a score
But a tie is a worthwhile end

For any good relationship
Is base on a give and take accord
So don't shoot from the hip
Nor get more then you deserve

time loses meaning
even stops when our eyes meet
love without ending

everything new changed
leaving many to whisper
the coming fall feasts

sliding in silver
mercurial lunar tides
rise and fall as one

bloated lake waters
collected glacier runoff
turning milky blue

He bangs his head again
And again, no thought to think
I’d rather make a horse drink

ripples disappear
as if we never bathed here
our dirt left as proof

Still looking for perfect
Can’t find joy, no one worthy
That trail you walk, alone

It's symbiotic
I hate it when you **** me off
and I get to blow off, steaming
I love it when you get me off
gives the other, all new meaning

horned figures dancing
pentagrams, flashing one eye
the kids bop along

Giant palms billowing up
swooning away my earthly fears
Life is not all pain

old mossy oak way
faithful refuge, tinned roof taps
herons on the stalk

In a forest, in a clearing
A deep dark forest, light safe clearing
My hammock is in the trees
Safe from the cold open sky
And the ever prowling eyes

I said " dad, I don't wanna die"
He laughed
pulled on his menthol kool
exhaled
gulped a sip of a PBR
laughed some more
took a deep breath and said
" Son, your sixteen year old punk, still wet behind the ears but since you asked I'm gonna tell you. Your already dead, thus is a dream, so dream big, and when you die your finally gonna wake up! Now, cut the grass"
Been pretty straight ever since. Ornery ******* was right all along.

Here she comes again
out of the rain, shining in
and there goes my pain

i was taken so
happily lost in their green
wonder in your eyes

what's too long to wait
I'll stand here forever, need be
to feel it once more