Nebulous
What you expect
When you get no respect
I smile to your face
But I said what I said
I maintain my position
Follow through with intent
Cut em off at the base
yup
These bitches is spent
Call it a mishap
Opinion or fact,
I spin everything
To make it land in my lap
Even what you started with
I’ll be taking that
And show it to be a little value
When I freely give it back
Parables
The wind
the rain
the sun
Are my teachers.
I walk among the ageless cedar
Observing the way of the beaver.
The galaxies and stars
Are my fathers’ map
guided by along
The less traveled, seldom trodden
Path.
I discern an ancient tale of woes spoken in the cryptic caws of crows
Who witness a world of
Ever change
Never less
the same
The grasping
Nevermore
to gain
Rising, collapsing.
The dawn of days
first born Hills rejoicing
Mountains leaping toward the sky
Came the vain pursuit of man
To find his means to satisfy
His bulging and corrupted-
Covetous eye.
I’ve seen the tower, babel
Thrust toward heaven high
Collapse
Returning to a mound of futile efforts dashed
laden beneath Millennias
of strata
and ash.
Sores and signs
I see God as he holds his sign.
Torn and tethered
raw knuckles
To
Black fingernails.
Written in Bold letters:
Anything helps.
Waiting to be noticed.
Hoping to be seen.
A coin for sustenance
Acknowledgment
Traded for a
meal of dignity.
And to set the
Privileged captive free;
Bound to his fleeting comfort
and luxury.
Beyond reason
Sometimes things work one way
Worked wrongly works the opposite
Once in a while, I wonder
Whereabouts and from whence
Lies the wiring.
I Used to fear the emptiness
Until I saw its gift
The hungry will be filled.
I used to fear the brokenness
That brings my heart the closest.
To his.
Where is my strength
When I am frail?
Beneath the grace that rests upon me
No longer fragile.
Halide and halos
Terminal axons
Potassium channels
Flickering
halogen
Sodium bulbs
Synaptic flashes
Dashes of light
Bright insight
Blighted by
Cognitive collapses
Photogenic genetics
Software crashes
Temporal
Half life
Progressing
at the rate
of decay.
Bioluminescent
Full
Partial
Then, Crescent.
Alkaline spirit
Renewable essence.
head games
Have you ever felt crazy
When you were innocent?
That's the way she makes feel
When she screams,
So loud about something
I don't remember.
Her screams send shock waves
Down my spinal cord-
Something primal,
Like witnessing a murder.
I'm lost, puzzled, afraid.
How did it all get started?
Have I actually been crazy
When I thought I was innocent?
That's the way I feel
When I tell her I love her,
Moments after screaming
How much I hate her.
We prowl around the room
Like wounded, territorial animals.
I'm not sure who
the victim is. Nothing
makes any sense.
Reality blended with emotion.
Truth and perception.
Fact and fiction.
It becomes difficult
hard to understand how
all this pain
all this anger
Came from a place that started in love,
But ended in war.
color washed
Dark hours arrive on
bright days,
Blossoms
On graves.
Sadness makes it’s way
Past laughter
In subtle streams
And tidal waves.
Heart break
Is the ache
Of a great abyss,
There’s no bottom
To sorrow, and
no way to resist.
Warm skies
Smeared by
Tears of pain.
Soul cries
Dulled by
Tones of gray
Faces
Of loved ones
Taken away.
Faith
Keep the faith…
There’s a light
you’ve got to believe it
Even when you can’t see it
Like right now…
You might be thinking, like how
Am I gonna get out?
Might be the darkest time in your life.
But things are going to change…
One day
The gray skies will go away
Wanting to die will be a thing of yesterday.
While it might be hard to imagine
How is all of this going to happen?
You’re gonna need to trust God…
He gave you life for a reason
He sees your pain
He’s with you
He ain’t leavin
He loves you
Believe him.