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Recovering, from the inner skirmish The clash beneath the stars Daybreak burns brighter Fending off its old shadow In an off-shore breeze I find my balance Wading in the ire Of many nights before Mending the frayed maps Of that devious past Leaves a route through despair Fanned across my mind
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Originally posted on Raja's Insight: Shadow ? My shadow My one true Companion Always with me Even in the dark Waiting patiently For a beam of light To show me I am not alone My shadow Follows me silently Waiting to see Where we will go What adventures We will share My shadow My one…
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Cut out of the loops and snares From the maddening circles; Strangling the brave I fell into the rapids Drifting in the swell for a season Toward a glade Toward a deep well of silence Friends screamed from the trees Entangled in their rage To my tumbling free form Fading in the white mist
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Lightning cracked my facade As I wandered from shore; Drawn into the green To a remedy in the waves They rolled from a tempest, Battering my legs And boiling the gulf Turning nightmares to sand I was drawn to the charms Of the West Indies gale Again and again To their balmy “goodnight”
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All’s calm on the western voyage My long spell of worry Has swelled into courage I slurred my confessions Until I was spent, Unraveled and received By kindred brown eyes Now the marshes await With its trail of old bones Singing cold melodies As I stumble back home
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Originally posted on Raja's Insight: ? Ink bleeds out onto the paper The room is sticky hot I’ve got a pit down in my stomach It’s tied up all in knots Years went sliding through my fingers Lines look deeper in my skin Age is gaining some momentum Turns out that death is what I…
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How many times Have I cruised into a comforting denial Letting shadows prevail And swallow the world? How often have I sailed to that misty shore, With the bounty of kin, The weight of good friends lost? How will I be maimed this time Where will I be dashed And sown back to life?
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An array of strange encounters Will color my mind On this midnight voyage They’ll breach the white walls Of this cranial prison With a battering horde Of unseen joys Of unseen frights I hope to return Upright and alight Unafraid of days lost Or of the mourning to come
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A shroud falls over the city, An untimely mist Spilling down through the gutters Through the alleys of my mind So I wage war in reveries While hushed and entranced; Hands conjuring and scrawling For a sliver of light ‘Til the streetlamps blaze With their burning red malice And this silver summer day Is purged…
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The walls of his caverns preach Til sunlight pours Through their serpentine faults In the dark they mourn Over full lives fallen From his young iron hands; Branded by death The ceiling leers down Holding back the night sky, The full weight of lost battles Meant to fall with rage And turn him to dust
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