Zachary Devitt

Zachary Devitt Aug 2010

Not a soul
as the snow flies
through the headlights
houses
become neon blurs
each one
allowing me to peer
into what was once
dark
the road tries to
surprise
me, it works
sometimes

Zachary Devitt Aug 2010

When God Plays Piano

Memory just like an old wine

Little notes from the past

A song that slips in and out of key

Or letters to an old friend who can never write back

A fingertip on the surface of a lake

Causes ripples that have potential to

Yet never quite making it to the other side

To the past I say as I lift my glass high

And drink the memories

A toast to you my long gone friend

While I play a song that slips in and out of key

Zachary Devitt Aug 2010

Want

spinning twirling
fire dancing
laughing singing
gallavanting
brothers sisters
goblet drummers
hipsters trippers
moonlight shimmers

welcome one and all
i assume since your here
you've started to fall
see your vision is clear
your having a ball
join us up here
take up the call

the government is wrong
it tears itself apart
they won't last too long
they are people without heart
they'll never here our song

so **** em
we left em
forget em

we are together watching from a distance laughing and playing and enjoying what is around us without having all of the rules that we as a species have imposed upon ourselves through years of mental debauchery constantly trying to get ahead of the guy next to us constantly consuming simply for the sake of consuming we dont need but the plague of man kind can be reduced to one little word "want"

....

spinning twirling
fire dancing
laughing singing
gallavanting
brothers sisters
goblet drummers
hipsters trippers
moonlight shimmers

Zachary Devitt Aug 2010

Mother

Forget time little men
just mother
wrapped in my womb
you hurt your mother
you stab and hack
burn
you are all my children
all a product of my creativity
why why my tiny friends
do you hate me
do you hate eachother more
why do you hurt your poor mother
you worry me sick
but it hurts me more to see you go
i will be here long after you have all gone

Zachary Devitt Aug 2010

Meditate

sitting singing
songs of solitude
swallows swoop slowly by
staring at my soft serenity
so i stand
start to run
swinging my arms
held aloft by good will
higher than the
Heavens

Letting my body melt as i climb closer to the sun
it is just me
set amongst the stars
time
eviscerated
not a soul, just a star, shining bright

Zachary Devitt Jul 2010

A Word of Advice For My Generation

It is time for a cleansing
washaway this job
this car, wife and children
forsake these friend

forget the monotony of money
forget the constraints of time
forget forget forget
and baptise yourself in the "sins" of the counterculture

Zachary Devitt Jul 2010

TO THE END

The captain stood solemnly
recieving what he saw
with stark indifference

the dark clouds towered above his tiny ship

he drank deep in the danger
taking a lungful of air
he finally let himself see his crew

they were frightened

this invigorated him
but he did not want it to
he had always taken pleasure
in being "The Captain"

hoping when hope was lost to other men
lesser men

but he knew deep down
there was nothing lesser about
these particular men
he also knew they would all die
presently

he parted his lips to begin his final oration

c. 2010