Come play with my darkness, I'll let you in

Show you my madness, I'll show you sin

The good days are over, love has run dry

I am the monster

Run

Cry

Enter my darkness, I'll strangle your light

My demons are hungry, please, put up a fight

The demons in me are cunning

They watch and wait so well

Strike out! Then running

Pulling me back to hell

But they wait and gaze so long

As I claw out of the depths

I forget they are of me, in me they belong

So when I reach the daylight

Content once more in love’s embrace

Darkness flows, futile is the fight

Back to hell I go, without a trace.

She speaks to my soul

She sooths my storm

Turns my walls to dust, my heart to a garden

And as she tends my garden, it grows.

With each gentle caress, giggle, feel of her lips

My garden grows

In the warm light of her love, time slows

Still my garden grows

Her eyes, her voice, they plant the seeds

Her lips, her heat water and feed

Trees tall as mountains, grasses ever green

For her, it flourishes. The garden in me

I forget the years before we met

Though they once seemed like an eternity

The struggles, torment, the stress leave

Tears, sweat and blood give way to peace

The anger fades to bliss, gently rustling in trees

Like leaves in the garden that grows in me

Know if you approach, to tread carefully

She is beyond sacred, she’s my destiny

I will defend my love, absolutely

A lover in a garden, I am not

But a warrior in love, that is me.

She was like the moon

Sometime shining brightly, sometime hidden from me

Always there, always far

So many nights I'd spend admiring her light

Beautiful, silent, a thousand miles away

As I watched her, like the moon, so much beauty to see

But there was more, hints of mysteries, intrigue. The answers...not for me

I stopped searching the stars, focus internally

The most unexpected surprise life gave to me

Though too far to see, all this time, while I was watching her, she was

watching me

A string , a memory, pulling in my head.

The words, pleasantries, beautiful lies you said.

Promises made, so few you keep,

More tears for you, than any other, I weep.

My best parts I gladly gave.

Foolish how I thought it fate.

Now the memories are tainted shells,

Yet still my heart must wish you well.

Though mark these words, love, this vow I keep.

Evermore you're dead to me.

Black horse of pride

A silhouette against the sky

death march of time

deny thy rein

mountain crumble

beneath my claim

metal bite against bit

I froth with dying breath

neck broken in dust.

If men fall from the sun

And women rise from earth

And collided, they become

The moon --

Then what happens if

We go our separate ways

Blinded by fear and

The heartbreak of love

Wandering endlessly

Half-human in our build

Will we burn

Under the eyes of

A condescending sun

Or will the earth

Go barren, like a desert

On fire roaming

In the Valley of Death

Will our future evaporate

Like ashes in dry wind ...

And can I inhale your ghost

Before you are carried away 

Absorbing you into my flesh

As we resign to --

Extinction together.

My soul rests on skin like vapor

I can taste it in the air

If I move too quickly

It will disappear

So I sit here in silence

Draw a map of my existence

On fine white paper

Not knowing where to go

From this moment on

I am standing in the sky

The earth below on fire

Except for you

My last hope

My solid blue ocean

Those tears that I refused to let fall

Finally cascade down my checks

I realized what you were to me,

You were temptation;

Blissful

Dangerous

Wild

T e m p t a t i o n.

You were the oasis of my life

With each breath you filled my lungs with

Sweet careless life

And the gaping nostalgia in my chest refuses to let me forget that to you

I was merely a tourist

Enjoying the view,

And exploring the territory.