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The cull of verses Have all been mercilessly dispatched Before my grieving eyes With my own trembling, guilty hands The smoke still drifts From my battered and grizzly crime Toiled to death Toiled without thought or reluctance In this foreign absence I refuse to carry on To drain away my vital signs Once more, would…
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What one can manage Is never quite enough To be of no consequence Is a fate i can sadly profess When confidence unfolds It surely dwindles Beneath the hail of skeptics The incessant blare of scrutiny Vicious, unwavering and obscene In silence I sway Between serenity and desolation My mind coldly swept over By carelessly…
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I catch them In their voyage for more Rummaging through daylight Over heaps fuming gore To salvage existence In it’s daily turn for strife Becomes the sole aim The treasure of modest life Some peer out From drenched windowpanes In their quiet weaving Of masterful gains Texture unfolds For lavish dreams to expand Kept from…
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Honest heroes Gladly defy the safety of sacred norms They dare to yearn For the contours of the universe And all of its mighty, unseen splendor Beneath the fiery gaze Of gilded impassioned hope Outlaws swiftly ascend For the far-fetched troves They were long ago, urged to defer from The soft, yet pestering refrain of…
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I relish in the deep sigh Of passing misfortune At the close of all peril and anguish I trace unseen ground Confident, assured Sound and certain Transient thoughts Are serene and docile Unwavering Wholesome and pure As trusted companions Immense and stouthearted I revel As scuttled deeds catch fire Coddled by the flicker Of infernal…
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Not a thought in my head Not a clue in my step I study the concrete Enthralled by whirling notions The scourge of my mind Thrives among these lonely years The better half Of my empty and depleted consciousness There is nothing left For these hands to attain With triumph uprooted And gorged upon by…
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Shallow fleeting warmth Instills within my tiresome bones Gone are the days Of unwavering delight Overlooked and forgotten And taken in desperate flight I fervently try With powerful resolve To let memories decline Spoil and dissolve The demise of radiance Is sharp, vicious and swift Dragging me toward the open void Of hostile reminiscing A…
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They’ve all dispersed Into the glittering infinite cosmos Weightlessly twirling Growing further and further from my reach I clasp for the ailing quiet of slumber Yearning to rise And drift among them For just once more For one more brief sliver Of spared lucid tranquility The fear within me swells Beneath the full weight Of…
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Thundering dust-ups Flash and flair through the dark A devilish shrieking With its faithful, pursuant blast Never failing Never far behind From jagged craters Heroes defiantly emerge Where many more Were furiously consumed Cut down in a blurred frenzy of war Too many succumb Pressed forward by the bugle’s call For the whistling eagles That…
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Sharp and rugged mountains Pry the glory From tender panorama The towering reign Of rustic kings Fluctuates for all time Spanning far, high and wide I steam in fantasy Of an hour of ceaseless climbing Examining the callous miles I scale In full and primal splendor As I savagely sift, claim and ascend The warm…