Furrow

In the shadowed halls of my heart

search and find, one light stays on,

take a moment, no need for fright

In the lonely room that is not dark

the light awaiting is a new dawn,

run for it with all your might

On the wooden desk I left a mark

words instead, the light is gone,

furrowed deep our last goodnight.  

Knock Me Off

Oh! Will you look at me

One day I was sleeping

Next day I’m here

Brought in kicking and screaming

Now I’m a buffoon

Like all of you

This is simply absurd

Behind the curtain there is lore

So without further ado

Welcome to the show!

It’s all glitz and glam

One enormous glow

Don’t worry about the explosions

Nor disturb yourself with the gore

It’s all in good fun

It’s the Earth expo!

Tent is up, lights are on

Welcome all to the pantheon

The big spectacle, full of twinkling dreams

Glowing mirrors, new and pristine

All is well under the pavilion

Pleasantry follows, just obey the rules

Do not be fools

Rebels here tend to fall off their stools

Exhibits are up

Everything perfect, shiny and new

No flaws

It’s just our world

Made of sparkling dust

Oh! Look at that glossy one!

All pretty and pristine

Not one spot

Not one scratch

Perfection to the dot!

Keep on looking

Desire rampant with lust

Oh! What a surprise

Nothing is what it seems

It’s really just rotten to the core

So why do we want more

Everywhere you look

Skittering animals all about

‘Round around they go

This is the big circus

Under an enormous canvas we are

Galavanting under a watchful eye

Up above like a light

The eternal sun

Up in the sky

Who will one day burn us all

Leaving nothing behind

But not to worry

Just go from exhibit to exhibit

Pick and choose

Walk on over and mooch over there

Meander next to that heir

Relax my friends

There is no care

Just keep on galavanting

Until you hit that snare

It’s insanity this dance

A macabre maneuver

Perfect for another shot

Perfect for another round

In this gimmick we are stuck

Wiggle and shake

It does not matter

Unravel those bones until they break

Next day you’ll wake up

Stuck again in this big mistake

So I think I’ll just rebel

Go ahead

Knock me around

Slap me insane

Leave me with nothing but drool

My head left spinning

Many a thing I have been considered

None of them a fool

So go ahead

Just knock me off my stool.

No Lament

Putting it all into this intent 

Smoky mist

In it I see my dissent

Only happens in my dreams

Where specters go

Where all things revolve 

Round and round they go

On giant motion

One enormous blur 

In that incantation

I splurge 

Swim around

Paddle onward

Don’t blame me 

I love to indulge 


At times it feels I’m drowning

Gasping for air 

Deeper I’m diving

For in those depths 

Is something I don’t get 

It is truly a mess

Everything is so unkempt 

Yet into the profound I go

Surely I’ll get lost 

Please don’t hold any resent 

In my absence it seems all is down

Just wait a bit 

There will be nothing to lament

To bring you out into this reality

It will be worth the maddening descent. 

Haze

It’s all just hazy 

Another sleepless night

Rambling by dark corridors

Can’t even feel fright

This sensation at best is shaky 

So here we go again

This is just a simple prose

No spices or herbs 

The lights are out 

Don’t expect brilliance 

Don’t expect the end of doubt

One dose of spiked tea

Revelations still won’t come

In darkness looking 

Find myself ignoring the answers

Drowning in the existence sea

All the questions coming at once

Listen, dear

My only conclusion 

Something surprisingly peaceful 

Chaotically aligned 

Yet simple and clear 

I’ve managed to sand down what’s grainy

Realization smacking me blind

Life is nothing but a trunk full of crazy.  

Perplexed

Oh these things I’ve said

Things I’ve done

Chasing something down 

Step by step 

Slow as a leech 

Barely out of touch

I don’t know what

Maybe something I will never reach

Jumping over wrecks 

My mind can’t keep up 

I still feel so perplexed 

Words seemingly escape 

Trying to find a way to say this

It’s just a jumbled mess

I think I’ve been hexed 

Rummaging through the brain

I find a reason 

Because I know something is hidden

Behind all that suspense. 

Shallow

Those shallow waters

Comfortable and warm

Beckon always to stay

Linger and eventually falter

Under false illusion make you broader

Under false security make you hunger

Believe it or not

Drowning in these waters

Will be hell to endure

Face down, holding your nose

Eyes shut

I’m sure you’ll feel the burn

What’s the point

Of falsely becoming stronger

Those shallow waters decay

They don’t last much longer

They simply evaporate

Drying out in the sun

Everything turning to gore

Your body will not resist

Your skin burnt to charcoal

Out there in the deep waters

Wonder is always much farther

Guaranteed to be much more

Wisdom hidden

The sweetest of all the forbidden

Your legs kicking, getting better

Muscles growing stronger

Your mind comes along

As a whole you fill with honor

Scary at first

Full of intrigue and mystery

Sometimes those profound, dark waters

Are closer than you believe

No such thing as monsters

Those shallow liquids

Drowning in these waters

Will be hell to endure

Face down, holding your nose

Eyes shut

I’m sure you’ll feel the burn

So just lift your damn head,

Stop the eternal churn.

Lessons

Learning lessons the hard way

Running headlong into a brick wall

Always trying to prove a point

Now I’m just trying not to disappoint

Blood running down my face

A reminder of the pain coming from within

My soul going down a slow drain

Where most agony ends up,

Stuck like a clogged vein

Coating everything in tar

Black and hard

Poisoning like acid rain.

Stare

Nothing comes out 

Staring at this blank screen 

Stopping me in my tracks from doubt

Feelings urging to pour out

Like a crack in a dam

Turbulence ready to pounce 

Strike down the cement in my judging contemplations 

Flood the rivers

Overflow the banks

Let it explode outward like a nebula at its end

Flush out the poison stuck inside,

It feels like hot tar on a summers’ night

To drown the mundane 

Bury it deep in a spectacular wave 


Nothing escapes 

All locked up tight like the vacuum of space

Dammit, it’s all just a drag 

Losing my silly mind 

Longing to spit it all out 

I can’t agree with myself 

So I knock the brain around

Going on without any bounds 

Handcuffs placed on every murmuration,

It’s hard to escape from those gentle palpitations

If only one chance, to lose the hinges

Soften the blows 

Scream into the air 

And just let it all go 


Nothing at all 

A dark empty screen

Staring back at me 

If I could, with a gasp I’d be good 

Haunting perceptions 

All coming back out of the blue 

I hear them calling 

Spooky memories 

Flooding all back 

Like a thousand raging tsunamis

Soon the dam might burst open

A majestic explosion 

Flying concrete and debris

Knocking it all down like a tower of ice in the middle of hell

I agree, its all self destruction 

The urge to burn it all down  

Start anew, 

Rebel in the dystopian 

And speak it all out, 

No more going around


Nothing has ended 

Staring at a full screen

Something happened when the stars aligned 

One day it takes for life to change 

The ultimate force of nature 

Driving me forward with spectacular agitation

What is it they say? Objects in motion tend to stay in motion

So push me forward until I tilt over 

These words insisting to come out

A lifetime of things left on the back burner

So different choices made 

Soaking in a sweet rain

And even with so much

I try and I try, 

And Nothing comes out. 

Dream

Feelings lost in real time

Nothing heard in the space around

A dream is reality without the grime

I’ll trade it all pound for pound

Come on over, help me make this rhyme

Wait a minute and I’ll shift your ground

You know it can be sublime

My intention is not to let you down

I know we can break this paradigm

A peace that is beyond profound

In life you need that tickle in your spine

So join me hand in hand all the way down

Feelings found in real time

Your heart I hear in the space around

Reality is a dream, so lets stop this pantomime.

Expectations

Dreaming up a perfect little world, 

a perfect romance, 

a perfect partner, 

a perfect meal, 

Perfection that’s perfect. 

In all these godforsaken expectations we lose the meaning of it all. 

The outlook is never as bleak as we believe, never as beautiful as we yearn. 

Damn it all to hell,

Embody the ultimate form of protest in this cynical world we inhabit, 

The form of the hopeless romantic. 

Chase what you dream of, even if it never becomes reality, for it is better to epitomize your ideals and battle for them, than to meander aimlessly through the void. 

We are traveling through space on a giant rock, how much more fantastical can all this be? 

How many signs do you need to see? 

How many sleepless nights do you need to realize this can all end tomorrow, washed away by the mighty sea? 

The bohemian heart speaks to all of us, we all hold that spark in our eyes, and endless wonder in our soul that could grow like the majestic oak tree. 

If we can’t hold on to that simple fact, we will continue living a robotic life, dragged away by circumstances and momentum. 

This is the sword I will die on, this is the truth my heart speaks of. 

I hope one day you can find yours. 

Make that choice, or the choice will be made for you. 

Bad Company

I think I’ve given up

Normalcy just doesn’t appeal 

All the lunacy has knocked me to my knees

Hitting the road

Looking for bad company 


I’m pushing it all aside 

I’ve decided its ride or die 

There is no time 

That is what’s precious 

So don’t give me all those lies 


I’m done feeding these things in my head 

Make up your mind and lets go

I’m telling you, you won’t make me bow

There is more to life than making bread 

I guarantee you’ll want more 


I’ll drown in that lake of fire 

It’s where guaranteed I stay warm

Oh, that poison is killing me 

But there you are, sticking the knife even further 

So don’t mix this up any longer 


Because I know

Baby, deep down I know 

That love is in escrow 

And I, forever in debt to her 


Going out in a hail of fury 

Grasp it all with my bare soul

You have no idea what I’ll bury 

So take that shot, finish off the pot

I need to know if you can make the part


Because out on the road

At least I know 

I’ll have bad company

Spells of Nothing

Getting lost in words. 

I’ll continue and succumb to another world

Where it’s wrapped up perfectly for enchantment. 

Where answers are found, 

Questions are bound. 

Because try as I must, 

I do not understand this world, or it’s people, or even myself

My mind feeling constantly whirred. 

I do not understand this reality with all it’s strife. 

All the things we say, and don’t mean

The things we do, and never conclude. 

We seek love, and don’t accept it

We seek wisdom, and wallow in darkness

A perfect little world we imagine 

A perfect little world we never go for. 


So I escape. 

To a journey where existence is less painful

Where randomness is not tenfold. 

Because we know,

We know. 

We know it can all be gone in an instant

Yet still we cheat, hurt, run away, and fight all the way until we are distant

Giving pain plenty of insistence

We push further as if we were inmortal

The gentlest of a breeze will pop the bubble in which we hurtle,

And we keep on trying to figure out this brief inferno 

Leaving memories which fade away 

Like the notes we had on that sacred journal.  


So I escape

To another world, 

Where even for the briefest of moments I can grasp your soul

Wrap it up nicely, and warm it to it’s core. 

Cure the affliction from which you suffer

Break down the pain 

Don’t be afraid of the good,

Accept it without putting up a buffer. 

But we are all broken. 

Broken people liking other broken people

Breaking it all down into dust

Striving to fill the hole with empty bits

Shattering what’s already fragmented 

We learn to accept pain and simply submit 

Diving down the hole that is less moonlit

Ironic, how what we wish for the most

Is what scares us to never find that bliss.

One Chance

Nothing poetic about these words

Lost in thoughts never heard 

Your heart is all I ever yearn 


One chance we have 

No regret seems too bad 

Lets run with it and just go mad


The mighty big bang 

Left us all to hang 

How can I say this without sounding drab


Time is coming 

It’s darkness at full speed running

Catch my hand, lets take off gunning 


How fast do we go, 

Lets fly high like the mighty crow 

I’m tired of this slow grow


Lets hide behind the romance 

Succumb to the mighty trance

You & I both know, 

We only have one chance. 


The Imperceptible

Do all times feel like dark times?

Rampant tyranny through gloomy streets

Excessive violence through addled minds

A rattled consciousness leads to haste. 


What has become of light and glory?

What has become of the noble hero?

The rundown, exhausted populace 

chant and protest to no avail. 

The joke is on us. 


Crumbs fall down, peppering the floor

Famished we fight

To each his own 

One on one against each other 

Fighting to the bones. 


Bread and circus on the rundown psyche

Leaving behind questioning thoughts

Up in arms over futile nonsense 

The tyrant system will not be tied in knots. 


This the battle waiting to be fought

To reach a union over the associated bunch

The communal band that rule for a few 

We are not so trifle, Do not be tricked

I have only but one thought: 

The imperceptible will deliver the

counter-punch. 


One day, humanity will, quite literally, cast our sails out into the interstellar cosmos, riding the winds of ancient energies from deep within the bowels of time, set on a journey to the profound abyss of space.

The next frontier.

An odyssey to discover the deepest mysteries that haunt our inspirations. To ride the turbulence of gravity on a ship so strong the mighty solar flares will be harnessed for energy instead of instant death.

Another Sad Song

Gentle approaches,

stubborn emotions,

the feelings I get from all your reproaches.

I’m wailing,

As true as the moon

I feel my insides peeling

Why did I drink that enchanted brew?

I’m swimming,

Drowned in fears never subdued

In this substance submerging

No sensation ever felt so skewed.

In search for madness

I found rationale

Its fires burning like embers in hell.

The stars aligned tonight

I prayed them true

Lets rejoice with all our might

And succumb to this earthly stew.

Join me in this journey that could be lifelong,

We can’t keep drowning in another sad song.

Quiet

Pensive minds withholding deep thoughts

Loud mouths divulging much of nothing

Our minds cannot connect all the dots

A ghastly mirage is whats haunting.


One look outside & the world is gone

Every day a new beginning to inspire

A constant fight to see this new dawn

Remove the haste that led us haywire.

Mind fogging verbalizations feel untrue

The sensing of another soul lost in time

Stranger than the elephant going coo-coo

I cannot see you behind the slime.

The wicked incantation from these words

Led us to forget what we were

Use them wisely with much rigor

Let us not end deep in the underworld.

A sixth sense seems all but forgotten

Do not listen to those with the answer

Truth to them is always ill-gotten

A two step of lies for those with no sensor.

The answer does not lay with the supreme

Nor does it await hidden in a cliff

The answer feels like a negative within a scream

Never have I ever felt this glib.

Yet here we are putting two & two together

Dancing around breaths not meant for us

Unifying our thoughts into its full splendor

Here we are in the dark woods feeling quite so snug.

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