Hell hence Blade

Climb into bed

Climb out of hell

Hell is regret

Hell is in your head

Head on to sleep

Head into darkness

Darkness is home

Darkness we all are

Are you quiet enough

Are you listening

Listening to yourself

Listening to your heart

Heart pumping

Heart slowing

Slowing down

Slowing for good

Good to stop

Good to forget

Forget it all

Forget the past

Past failures

Past chances

Chances to care

Chances to love

Love is a dream

Love is a lie

Lie to yourself

Lie to me now

Now I’m here

Now I’m gone

Gone without a word

Gone soon forgotten

Forgotten promises

Forgotten plans

Plans to be happy

Plans are a waste

Waste all your time

Waste away

Away so far

Away and alone

Alone to think

Alone to wander

Wander the world

Wander to the edge

Edge of the coast

Edge of the blade

Blade of shattered glass

Blade of sharp obsidian

Obsidian…

Glass…

 

 

Grace

You were a catalyst;

You were my accelerant;

Stairway to a returning grace.

 

All I offered was

A heart bent on restraint.

You were a catalyst.

 

Fastened to the fence,

I still was swept away.

You were my accelerant.

 

The tide relinquished, and

The sky was purple that day.

Stairway to a returning grace.

 

Sparkling

I awoke and your image remained, clear and crisp, minus all the usual strain.

The stars were sparkling as they urged me to stall, then froze for a moment and started to

fall.

I felt your presence despite the distance my silence ordained.

I heard myself speak the words I hadn’t the will to say.

I’ll take this illusion over stark reality today.

I’ll tie it up and stow it away.

Voided

Walking along a road, it seems without an end.

Farther down we each go, less we know where we’ve been.

Familiarity sensed just around the bend, but we never make it there, since forever it extends.

None of us were made to be comfortable for very long.

There’s a void in everyone, existing deep inside. We hold onto hope that in time it won’t survive. So we surround it with all our pain; with all our light; with all our pride.

Empty it remains, despite how desperately we try.

It pecks at our time and offsets our dreamer minds.

As we muster enough courage for the risks, the world moves on, taking with it, every chance we’ve missed.

So the void grows until it’s all we know.

Only then we see all we let slip away.

The lives we chose to forgo.

Stopwatch

I’m not quite ready to shelve you yet.

Strange how innocence remains despite what we forget.

It was late April and I will confess,

I still recall the steady beating of your chest;

the way your eyes traced and reflected moonlight;

how the air smelled more sweetly on that night.

Every word echoed with a sense of permanence; each sigh was quickly outweighed by the next.

The piano keys were depressed, their sound encased in elegance. Your arms encircled me in warmth and balance.

Nothing else mattered as we danced upon the dewy grass.

It was there in that moment, the earth stood still at last.

Elemental

Ebb and flow
Seen from shore
Pricks my heart
With all its
Inevitability.
With the rain
We’ll each fall
Down upon
Our knees –
Though just like it,
We shall rise again
Once we’ve been
Changed by degrees.
Who we are now,
Always giving in
To the undertow
Of who we’re
Meant to be.

Blended

Those gray clouds overhead
Envelop all which is serene
Reminding me
So rarely,
Things are as they seem.
This gray coat
Fits like a glove;
Everything comforting.
It contains my love and
Keeps my heart lean.
These gray shoes
Worn each day
Carry me here to there,
Allowance to pass them by,
They just barely were aware.

The Adjustment

I knew before I met you,
You’re the only one.
Since I’ve seen your face
The strings all came undone.
We’ve been held in place
And now it’s time we run.
I promise we’ll make a way
No matter where it’s from.
There were times when doubt
Almost took it out of me.
Every chance unexplored
Hovered to fill me with unease.
Still the fire burned
Each and every time I breathed.
I know if anything’s real,
Then we were meant to be.

Shackled

Never are we truly free –
Instead seeing
As we wish to see.

Constant burden we each bear,
Achieve balance;
Rise above despair.

Desire driven;
Controls us all
Wanting more than what we are.

Beautiful charade;
No answers here,
Only love and crippling fear.