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Cascade free From the comfort Of level ground Wither As a rolling silhouette From the high perch Of luxury Along The mountainside Bedlam bruises And skewers savagely Yet the mind Drifts from panic In a full embrace Of grizzly fate Down Go the vacant ones Consigned to peril In the mists below
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Pedaling in reverse I speed through former years Full with dismay And the careless droning present Across battered roads The great chasms I’ve left unmended Where rivers gush With the turmoil of old Stocked With the vigor I’ve lost I backtrack With the greatest haste Through the sprawl of evergreens The teaming refuge of youth …
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I am The powerless fawn Wallowing in the tatters Of his own bloodied flesh I am damned A withering shell The fading shadow Of a stouthearted buck My smoke-filled demise Was an unseen horror For the reaper’s beckon Once lingered, far from here My last stream of wind Is a fable of caution Risen, from…
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Wading chest deep The wind Is pressed from my lungs In the vise Of daily squalor My ceaseless Masculine war “Take the reins” Is the mindless refrain Instilled in all sons In the blossoming hearts of kings ”Seize the helm” Falls away from my ears As a quiet reverie Cold and long forsaken Still I…
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There were railroads Etched deep Across the span Of her porcelain flesh Each mile Was a shrill cry Released from the caverns Buried within She hung close Like a high noon shadow Clutched to any form With a harrowing thirst Still her words burn With urgency As a roving echoe At the close Of each…
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With shallow breaths I hang on Half-heartedly Swaying From the mangled edges Of my failing Consciousness Inching Ever slightly For the tranquil fall Of eternity I linger Listing In the surging waves No longer striving For solid ground I rupture Swallowing the night And it’s murderous Brew of silence
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My engine sputters Through the thick sludge Of tireless voices I sink to my knees Weary and overcome Fully immersed In the fog of daily labor Onward I cry As I wade And inch toward silence Yet dying screams Are all I can conjure As food for the muck The foe of my eager treads…
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A melody steamrolls Across a mind Marred by ruin It’s infectious It floods From grey matter To the depths of marrow Misery is dissolved With ease Like capsizing in a swell Of harmonic majesty Piercing deep I thrive fulfilled Far from the sands And their cruel Scalding torment Beyond silence I’d linger In this boundless…
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Into The slums of my psyche I drift Upon the surging Winds of mayhem Coasting away Overcome Fully clothed in sorrow How I yearn to retreat To claim my escape Yet chaos Hails supreme Doomed To the torment Of labyrinthine nights Where I scour unkempt Through the blossoming Of cradled grief I dive Into the…