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Drowsing away Lamely In the narrow folds of sloth For the day Is but a sheet Of rolling grey Coveting the skies And marauding My hazy thoughts My mind Is placid As it free-falls Into catatonic dreams Far From the summit of anger Where I nest Hollow Incapable And derailed
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Still She rings in my ears As the conqueror Of each shadow-laden day The piercing cry From the pit of my conscience That skewers All in her path She buries herself Within the grey matter Twirling, dancing As done in days prior Refusing To slip away Her fingertips burrowed Inside my quivering psyche I refuse…
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I dwell in shackles Among the throes Of her deafening anguish Beneath Her fog of dismay I coil with fear Bracing In the ordinance of her treads She emerges disheveled Entombed in agony Overcome by her thoughts And the restless sway of emotion To which I take root In the mire of devotion In defiance…
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Salvage my worth Before I am too Far gone Before I am rendered mute By the waterline That claims my all Each night I plunge Is a shrill cry for rescue To be pried, from the wreckage Of my failing form Each night Is but, a hollow endeavor Where I lose clarity And implore For…
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Dusk Became a keepsake jewel Housed, in the hull of memory The clouds were aflame Rolling forth Toward oblivion’s Frozen embrace To be enslaved To be swallowed whole By surging tides of black I basked in the fall Their fiery decline As the earth Was garbed in shadow
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The youth Were like pendulums Swaying, unhitched from care Like swinging lovebirds Unknowing Of the cage they share Time feeds Upon Their roving stares And they soon depart For the dreams Tomorrow will spare
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I rest Upon a mound Of second chances A mountain of regrets Molded, by years of lost nerve Redemption is wedged Deep in its caverns Its dying screams Still wafting, around in my skull I can never depart From this ivory zenith For a steep demise Lurks all around I’ll inch higher In the moments…
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We are all So safe and sound Bundled in joy And brimmed with rapture Despite Our uncertain paths That seemingly Have no end I cling To peace of mind Despite the plumes My towers of black As I choke On the climbing fumes Fully engulfed By the treachery of sleep
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Our skies are bare and black As the lights scale high And hail triumphantly Our eyes are earthbound Dreamless and hollow Too full with turmoil To cleave the fog we’ve cast Doomed To the tide pools We know All too well Our hunger Slowly dwindles From the bounty Of our daily trials
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