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I soar in secret Brimmed with peace and solace Away from the likes of friend or foe Where I tranquilly rove Displaced by passing time I unlatch the memories Plunged beneath my hide Fastened to my being To delude all I am All that I hope to claim In the purest confidence of sleep Transient…
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Like idle citrus I am shackled to slow decline A lumbering, sluggish fate Rightfully sown Fit for a damned fool Time’s merciless stranglehold Weakens once soaring aspirations Deluded by a freedom Substandard,cold and plastic Age seeks for me At each grueling trial by dawn Totting his gift of bitter mortality And whistling his timeless,fatal tune…
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Foraging for inner bliss Is a thankless Tiresome task Lunging for the fleeting joys Of a common and restless curse Reigning yearly at the helm Of each fresh-faced mystic year Tranquility eludes The ceaseless pace of thoughts Peppering my body with anxiousness Demobilized, for the coming struggle Hours I strain For soothing words Bright and…
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A feeble student To the merciless wrath of instinct The untamed brutality That bucks night and day Troubled only By the endless trot of wind I am but a ripple against the skin Of a mighty and vengeful serpent Coiled around the earth, twice over For the finer half of eternity Stillness permeates From the…
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That day The accordions were adrift Wafting past avenues In the sultry wisp of spring The cafés were alive Buzzing with radiant color With droves spilling from native shores In a vast array Of faultless harmony The elation of tea kettles Rocketed shrill From ear to ear Many more peered Into shifting, blue eternity As…
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Through the labyrinth of voices I shift and rattle Weightless and unbound Unfastened from word or song I float through bewilderment Drastically changing course As the hours drag and die Faltering to the tune Of my shallow dismay One by one They sink and crumble Diving wastefully Frittered by misty thoughts The boasting whirls In…
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I am cursed by the constant twinge Throughout my tired and humble flesh Irritation writhes Fighting to sink the living cause within To drown out all remnants of hope In the dreadful refrain Of recede and cope Muttered inquiries never cease Boiled from my empty world Loveless and stripped In wide strokes of grey Far…
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I shrink through the marshes In a slow desperate wading Stewing each day Among the fuming, stagnant waters They are plagued By a host of savage ghouls Tussling violently Obscured by the towering sycamores Ivory resolve Preaches above Through branch and vine As I dare to tramp forth In blind defiance I binge on water…