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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…
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The scourge of promise Scales the walls of my conscience Ushered to repent With meek resolve I cower and vent I rave in torrents Gushing my barred disdain With mountainous veins Agitated and throbbing A veil of rage For the obscured fit of sobbing I shy away From earnest wants Primal needs And all honest…
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I reveled in the soothing crash Of out-stretched emerald waters Raised to their prime At the slow swarm of dusk Gently troubled As souls came and went The swarm expanded And droves piled in From all distinct Marvelous walks of life Meshed arrays Overtook the wooded planks Drinking in the cool Atlantic wisps Far gone…
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Is it ever enough? A staggering inquiry That loops the confines Of my cracked and battered skull A thought that feeds My jagged meanderings Stripped of all goals Abandoned by upright purpose Cold and intelligible They plummet like orange bushels Caught up in autumn’s primal reign Frigid and crisps Dead, dormant and morose Night by…
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Insecurity billows In high stacks far and wide Soaring to commune In thieving droves Burdening the lowly lands With darkness and suffocation Aspirations starve While plots decay and wilt And Malice soars on To graze the helpless sky Lost Within a constant embrace Of whatever schemes Sure to arise The depleted tread In aimless sorrow…