Upon Emerald Dreams

Strangers eyes beckon

Eviscerating crowds to a pair

Like hearing words the first time

Remarkably ordinary but yet

Time stopped as I am emerged

Foreign feelings without reality tug

Utter strangers lost in random passing

Wondering if the feelings are shared

Wondering if feelings are orphans

The clock ticks forward

The magic fades two strangers again

Two questions remain like shadows

Light cruelly abandons them both

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Darkness Inside

Black parchment eats words

Indigo ink fades to hints

Quill scripts invisible manifest

My fingers scream minds pretzels

Every answer begets empty questions

Tree of knowledge sways oblivious

My voice silence by indecisiveness

Letters twist into someone’s words

They cease to translate to me

Darkness my familiar stranger

Lullabies sung in earthly drones

I wonder across the unblank page

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Another Day Lost

Quietly I sit

Trees flutter green leaves

Air crawls slowly by

Thoughts stir in voids

Little else matters

Motivation gone flat stale

Memory picks places

Lost upon parchment maps

Images undeveloped fade

Lines connect has beens

Worry goes missing

Perfectly another day lost

Breeze

Twisting in the wind

Unfurled then wrapped

Sensation of breeze

Coursing through veins

Tethered with illusion

Free to remain

Happy to not know

Sudden snap focuses

Things are delightful

Ignorance is bliss

Riding the wind

Sensation of breeze

Coursing through veins

Rust on the Heart

Knock the rust from my heart

Explorations for a glance for naught

High desert of twisted dreams calls

Their whispers drift aimlessly

Sunlight within smiles behind clouds

Winds stare blankly into wilderness

Still the pulse does not race on

Memories turning into tumbleweeds

Someday has fallen from calender

But here I sit in oblivion

Waiting for the rust to be set free

Dancing in Air

She dances through air

Like she’s unaware

Beauty and grace causalities

Time bows as she passes

Yet blissfully she knows not

Elegance in awkwardness

Stumble become pirouette

Hypnotic to distraction

Eyes refuse to leave

Her vision in motion

The void

The void calls

It takes your heart

Your thoughts circle

Feelings die, reaction lives

Shadows show you light

Books read by illiterate

Become hymns change d

Verses drift chorus away

Fading to white

We’re claiming purity

Deep inside were know

Void is anything

But clean

Perchance

Can you make me forget?

I look to escape the day

Thoughts tease what could happen

Reality whispers what will never occur

Lines separate here and now

Fragile dreams dance upon breezes

My obsession clings to maybes

I ask again, can you make me forget?

Yesterday is a complex knot.

Things once held power crumple

Dreams lay upon the ground in pieces

Hopes nothing but ties that bind

Doubts flavor the air upon your breath

Wanting to be part wastes on the vine

I seek roads not to be traveled

Responses without form of measure

The moment golden in distant light

Things served negligence steeped with desire

Thrills within the hidden places of the heart

To bask in warmth of could be’s

The price of release far outweighs the cost

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Your Smile

I selfishly hold on to your smile

I build rooms for memories

Each one a masterpiece

Each one a breath to cling

There’s a fear i’ll miss one

There’s a sense they may stop

Heartbeats pause at their sight

Possibilities dance in their light

Without them I wander aimlessly

Uncertain paths of emotions

Destitution of unknown feelings

Like dawn breaking, hope spills

Enlightenment in sharing

Priceless things, silly things

I await the next smile impatiently

Death

Death leave my door

Noone here is surrendering

Strychnine is far too sweet for us

We fight for those breaths

That you slyly silence at night

Hearts race toward the next beat

Your icy touch will freeze nothing

Take your pallid shadow elsewhere

May moonlight wash it to the gutter

I do not defy you by clutching life

Antagonists seldom knows their part

Begone into the silvery moonlight

Find another doorway far distant

Where others may yield to your spell

Tomorrow may not be promised

But neither is relinquishing to you