I Am Alone

There is one truth that persists
as time ticks and
rain slicks and
the mind clicks
As people around me feel sound
as safe as long as hopes abound
I sit in anguish angry still
as quiet eyes challenge the chill
and silence takes in all its fill
As I live on and as I exist
as always ever I am this
I AM the cold that haunts the air
I AM the emptiness of a stare
I AM the dream without a prayer
Yes, the one truth is this
while I am here, no one will care
when I look for it, there’s no one there

Falling Love

Is this like the pain that
Falls
Like dew drops on an empty plain
And bathes each blade
With
Damper still disdain?
I would wither in plain
Sight
If I could but have the courage
But I only have
Each
Petal that falls from You.

Darling Please

Darling please

when you take away all the eye sees

leaving only that which haunts my dreams

of stormy seas

that stir the breeze

which might have passed with greater ease

to me it seems

it’s only

‘Please babys’

to say you would only make believes

and leave me hanging with maybes

or a light tease

and ‘Wish it could bes’

oh please

believe me this isn’t easy

to stay here with my heart queasy

you freeze me

I seize

I cease to be

so please oh please

stay with me

or leave me my weak knees

let me be free

if you can’t be these

loving qualities

can you be

oh tell me

Darling please

Coloring

Color me purple
and black and bruised,
but please I beg you
spare my pride!
But color if you must
if coloring does,
to give warmth and control
to this life.
Color me crazy
with every possible hue,
if it suits you to
color me in.
And paint a better picture
than the one in my head,
yes please color instead
from within.

Soul Script

Little dots on the page
make plays at stage
and with time will age
less of grace.
The little lines they leave
will then want and weave
about endlessly
lost in space.
But with luck and time
some may intertwine
and build line by line
to replace.
That should time review
and see it built anew
there’d be left words too true
to erase.

rut

I’m in my head

and it swims

against the currant

against the wind

I can’t get in

to see the reality of anything

there’s a sting that fouls my mood

a sharp reproach not cold but crude

bewildered I blank

shake the core of calamity

and swindle the cool breeze

that I wish I could ride

and be free

Slowly Disappearing

I can see now that I’ve been slowly
disappearing
from the face of
my face
this world
is forcing me to face
the reality now hits
it’s almost as if
it’s been happening without my knowing
blinded by the will to keep going
I see now
I cannot just keep on if I don’t know where to go
I cannot sort the tiresome if I don’t learn to say no
I cannot hike this landslide if my footsteps never slow
the wall will hit
and rinse, and repeat,
if I don’t first learn to let go
if I don’t take the time to fix what’s wrong
wipe the slate clean
before the slate wipes me gone
and I’ll be disappeared
lost to myself
lost in my own skin
I see now that I am slowly disappearing
and I need to
seek peace from within
and seek love from you
I know now it will take both of the two
to slowly somehow
draw myself back in

Winter

Fallen leaves
Face time further refined
They show on each line
What mimics on mine
We’ve weathered
Through well worse behind
Yet more on the horizon
Has yet to bear mind
To fair such weather
Is to tempt tempests blind
So prepare yourself darling
For who knows what you’ll find

The First Beat

Today’s Beat… the very first here… let the madness begin!

Take a moment today to embrace someone you love. And I mean really embrace them, hold on, squeeze tight. Tell them you love them. Trust me, it will make all the bad emptiness go away… if even for a second, it’s worth it!