Sleep my only companion,
I grow tired of your flirtations.
When will you rescue me forever?
10/06/12
My daughter turned two years old two days ago. She probably doesn't even know my name. Strange that I should be so powerless to be involved in the life of one of the few people I care deeply about. My hope is that in the near future this might change.
09/05/2012
Remember when you were a child
And felt that everything would be alright
Life would lead you into joy
Hopes would be miraculously fulfilled
I have lived nearly half my life
And I have ceased believing
Life is beautiful all around me
And I constantly search for amazement
Day by day I am at peace
Few common worries beset me
Yet I am essentially alone
No one waits to save me
09/05/2011
We are at war with the riddle
Some have given up the fight
And crawl backward toward the shelter
Of homes abandoned years before
Some charge relentlessly
And in their passion fall useless
Bleeding out in heroic fashion
Some attempt to take command
And strategize in vain
A means to control untrained troops
Some observe from afar
And in their impotence hope in the potency
Their knowledge may one day achieve
Some have turned the traitor
And rather than fighting the fight
Assist the enemy with their lies
Some are innocent in their incompetence
And fall before the blade
Without knowing what has happened
Some kneel before the oppressor
And think that if they confess its name
They shall be delivered
But the riddle remains
Some have given up the fight
And crawl backward toward the shelter
Of homes abandoned years before
Some charge relentlessly
And in their passion fall useless
Bleeding out in heroic fashion
Some attempt to take command
And strategize in vain
A means to control untrained troops
Some observe from afar
And in their impotence hope in the potency
Their knowledge may one day achieve
Some have turned the traitor
And rather than fighting the fight
Assist the enemy with their lies
Some are innocent in their incompetence
And fall before the blade
Without knowing what has happened
Some kneel before the oppressor
And think that if they confess its name
They shall be delivered
But the riddle remains
08/23/2011
Americans
Veins flowing thick with lust and greed
Holding fast to a morality
That says "get what you can, when you can"
"Don't ever get less than the next man."
Incapable of contentment, "no satisfaction"
Destined to wander the earth in abandon
Meting out the days of their lives
Counting their money and hiding their sighs.
Veins flowing thick with lust and greed
Holding fast to a morality
That says "get what you can, when you can"
"Don't ever get less than the next man."
Incapable of contentment, "no satisfaction"
Destined to wander the earth in abandon
Meting out the days of their lives
Counting their money and hiding their sighs.
08/10/2011
I've come to the edge of the cliff again--
Been here enough times that it's familiar now.
I know this moment, I know the steep path,
The rocky path, that leads here from the sea.
Time to jump. It is time once again,
To kill what I've become.
As I fall, the world falls with me.
The faces fade away, the words become silence,
And I plunge into the abyss, into the void.
Who is to say what shall emerge?
Been here enough times that it's familiar now.
I know this moment, I know the steep path,
The rocky path, that leads here from the sea.
Time to jump. It is time once again,
To kill what I've become.
As I fall, the world falls with me.
The faces fade away, the words become silence,
And I plunge into the abyss, into the void.
Who is to say what shall emerge?
08/06/2011
Destitution
A restless bird outside my porch, flew in panic
Back and forth, from steps to roof, from roof to plank,
All the while chirping with an anxious tone
I doubted not that somewhere a rat had found her home.
Something sly and cautious, creeping in the dark
Had crawled up to her offspring, still encased,
And broken them open, sipping it all out,
Sipping out hopes and dreams and happiness.
The poor thing must have lived a century distraught
Within a couple minutes, so adamant her chirps;
I finished sipping on my cigarette and went inside
Putting the event from my mind.
Restlessly now, it returns, like the eyes of a gator
Rising unblinking over the surface of a stagnant pool--
The thought, the mocking thought: "how trite."
Yet I would sip, and sip, and sip, feeling nothing.
A restless bird outside my porch, flew in panic
Back and forth, from steps to roof, from roof to plank,
All the while chirping with an anxious tone
I doubted not that somewhere a rat had found her home.
Something sly and cautious, creeping in the dark
Had crawled up to her offspring, still encased,
And broken them open, sipping it all out,
Sipping out hopes and dreams and happiness.
The poor thing must have lived a century distraught
Within a couple minutes, so adamant her chirps;
I finished sipping on my cigarette and went inside
Putting the event from my mind.
Restlessly now, it returns, like the eyes of a gator
Rising unblinking over the surface of a stagnant pool--
The thought, the mocking thought: "how trite."
Yet I would sip, and sip, and sip, feeling nothing.
07/26/2011
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
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