I was called back to a forlorn forest I had often visited in my youth Full of bygone fellings Home to the last willow Where the last drops of dew Seeped into the barren You outlasted them all Standing with my hand on your dried out trunk I recall the days when this field did thrive Long before my time came Where your own dreams did dance When seeded hopes blossomed A new future was forged Yours outlasted them all I wonder where did those dreams disperse to What became of all those closely held hopes Suddenly remember The shadow of your shade The dreams you dreamt with me Hopes you tore from your heart Sowed them deep into mine You dreamt once of how I could tame the stars Rearrange their brilliance to shine shared name All you cherished to see Now left alone to me A brand new age rolls on And I know you would not Have me to idly weep When you have so lovingly willed to me All of the gifts of passed generations Reaping these long sowed seeds Realizing drawn out dreams Knowing far in the back In a seat I can't see You resting now...smiling
Siren Night
The first time we kissed I Felt the swirl of disparate Colours colliding onto A canvas we painted With our breath, leaving sleep To the worn memories That inhabit our days As the riot of our Love tussled under rays Selene had showered down To guide us through our craze And when the sail of a Different wind came and took You away, I unleashed My heart to run adrift These rampant rolling waves Letting sea spray disguise The tears I could not shake Drifting into salt spray Towards the inviting night Which promises only To linger hopes so bright
Remember the Dawn
In all auspice of confined form The heart palpitates and dips down To flush forth furtive scars towards truth Revealing the ornate issue Which drowned in clouds behind closed eyes
Desire Slept
The stains hidden behind Magellanic clouds dispersing Time bent filaments Stretching out through inward pressure Coursing down that wanton fissure Spark the fight within Devouring west with east Following the shadow of the sun Stark eyes alight to shine The widowed greeting revealing Plastered features now undone
Dichotic Foils
The child imagines things through an infinite lens The man realizes things through aggregate sins The child rages out of every obstacle The man eases into thoughts logical The child waits anxiously for due love The man finds in it of himself true love
Occulta Oculos
Dig in deep, carve the ribs out Take a peek, inject the doubt Tatter The forlorn strands Shatter The cratered hands Forget, that violent dread Remember, what Sarah said
Pith Paralyzed
I watched the fireflies Dance in the light of Their love Heard hidden songbirds Sing in the chorus of Tree boughs Felt the wandering wind Coursing in the space of Unbound thoughts Sitting in remaining space Wondering to myself what Was the butcher's bounty For this aged heart
The Wintering
Storm clouds clasping overhead Signaling the new turn to Slow breaths boiling into open air Chattering bones longing for the Stilled warmth of fallen giants Finding refuge in A seasoned hermitage Learning to release To the freezing winds Ashes rendered from the Ink of pages past Shedding the shadows Lifting the pen In silent seclusion A moment to pull From future's fire Bittersweet transformation That needed the heavy Air of reclusion
Goodbye
I made a promise once Delivered on solemn terms To disrupt the discourse That had damaged that which I only sought to serve Memories fade Moments escape me Bits of lightning come back To strike me a vision of what Time had scattered But those final words That last encounter Etched its way through Hazy reveries, embedding upon The foundation which thoughts form And yet, O yet This final word Will drift off lightly Barely off the lips Before fading to mist