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When I’ve truly departed From the cold binds of grief On a moonlit wisp That streams lonely and free Replenished lungs May cry on fearlessly A ferocious beckoning Into the tranquil void Magnificent, full, and deafening Faint remnants Flicker, low and sullen As the ailing residue Of lifelong sorrows The voices scatter For the mind’s…
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Wavering desolation Wrecks the harmony I claim As I meander ragged and hopelessly Slowing to a desperate stagger Far ago Triumphant roads diminished Casting my form Into turmoil’s Harrowing embrace Frustration spills Into scalding hot buckets Pouring past the ratty cloths That covet this battered frame Within My reckless travels Epiphany defiantly stirs A rogue…
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Reveling in the shadows Of chased away thrills My startled kin My long expelled resolve So viciously uprooted I embark for their rush Far from the beckoning The growing quake of vendetta Smoke trails climb Yet I defer from their cries The daily shrillness That floods my nervous frame Sporadic fire Fuels my desperate flying…
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Roadside melodies Swallow up idle travelers With folkloric prose Cloaked in bitter harmonies Disheveled vagabonds Cleave long forgotten trails To timid ages lost Where the youth stumbled Foolish and unbound Potent words Roll away From the lips of aged perfection In a desperate voyage For uncaring passersby These ragged few Spill fervently and pure Passionately…
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Ever faithful to reminiscing The scourge of faltering daylight Cartwheeling thoughts Mimic bright cosmic beauty Framed in the efforts Of destitute kin Distraught meanderings Pour from a ravaged soul Roving endlessly For kind, loving refuge The dismayed and unraveled Stream away in silence For the caring arms Of loyal reveries To honest memories That fervently…
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Like wavering sand dunes Spent by an evening wisp I too wither At the drawn lash of time Entombed desiresShrivel with great haste For a defiant tongue Bars their sly escape They must fall unknownSuccumb to a bitter rest Ensnared by a mute hopelessness And rusted With passing age My truth Can never be fully…
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Not quite Is a scalding brand Buried beneath the skin Under timid waves Squandered with age The tides receding With each spent word of disdain Never on beat Not quite Never certain I’ve scoured desperately To your tune of no avail The taunting constant From swarms of the cool and crisp The swift The clean…
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Foundation crumbles Splintering without a care Into reckless slabs Coasting, for a hushed oblivion Along the slumber’s ravine The murderous blue slash Through the unknowing wild I map Its devilish contours In my faithful slither To its savage rhythm Foundation defers Through a timid, welcoming void The tender haze Of aspiration The toll of shameless…