My body is a burnt-out
bottle rocket
caught in the lawnmower
the Tuesday after the fourth of July...

...this body,
just temporary.
It doesn't hold me back
from where I'm meant to be.

Where gravity ends
the loosening begins
my spine is bowing
with the entangling wind
dipping my toes into
the endless stream
lapping at my calves
washing all the dirt
and all the skin
a mindless dream
turning on its axis
for all eternity
the ticking of the clock
has no rule here
unraveling soul
like a pulled thread
where did the voices go?
I ask inside my head
I followed the ceaseless music
to your widening door
the darkness invites me in
with a feral grin
and a hailing hand
and no light
no light
can follow
that hasn't been here before

splintered remains

Calamity
and the course of this
distant journey
from afar
you have shattered all
that remains of
my broken heart
I refuse to take the dive
tonight
rip me apart and
start anew
take your time
this time
and give me
light to break
the shadows where
the light simply refuses
ever to go
All that I have left
to me now
are the splintered remains
that scattered on the floor
tell me it was worth it
please tell me it was
all you ever wanted and more

A thousand nights

Give me justice
give me letters
from the grave
wipe your broken tears
on the deadman's sleeve and say
that all this time was worth it
all the effort that I gave
I only couldn't help it
if it was just my way
when you awoke this morning
Did you feel the light
a thousand piercing moments
Just what gave you the right
this unasuming morning
where we both meet the day
and you can't
even
go
your own way

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We are creatures with autobiographical
souls
we yearn to share our story
as we go
Yet none of us own a heart
that is unassuming
and there we wait to be
transformed
in the courtyard of our days
we wait in vain
where we devour our time
and drown our sense in nothing
that which we can see
or smell or taste or hear
there inside the recess of
my mind
a voice that whispers deliberately
draws me out
and I wish to know the places
that are new to my sight
and with every new place
I visit
something inside hails excitedly
I have been here
I have been here before

Heart Enlighten Me

The childlike heart I own
never lets me see further than this room
but I am inexorably drawn
to the crack of light
peaking beneath the door
it has me anticipating
what the day beyond
will have in store
When all the forces be
will set me free
Momentarily I am blinded
by all I see

The Devil's Dance

You always carried
on your shoulder
the weight of the storm
as it got colder
and the icy chill
that sent me reeling
bored you still
as if you had no feeling

and I see you now
walk in the room
the little cherubs
like ironic doom
follow at your heels
strum their lyres
those pretty things
with their own desires

Oh, how the violins
they whine and sing
to herald your
coming in
and set the tone
that I've never known
but held on to just the same

And had you any
understanding
you'd recognize
my wingless landing

so permanently
I'll be here still
but I'm indefinitely
at your will
and disposal