Approaching Darkness
The night falls, enveloping black fire
lifted on the pyre, nothing more left to need

I sleep with the burden of the world on my breast-
no rest will come to me

Under watchful eye, the time creeps by-look away
it flies by on swift wing

Time, though I fear the end is near, flows on endlessly
and I fear the eternity

Solitude, the silence, is ear-splittingly loud-in a crowd
the loneliness drowning

Childhood calls, a welcoming dream but a useless thing
So desired

Drifting away, dying little more each day,
fading thoughts of the life just transpired

Expired.
All was for naught, it seemed

The Headless Horse
Sleek body set ablaze in
the red
of the morning sun
Remains of flank flailing
In the passing wind
The headless horse pulses in its
beating hooves
Galloping passionately
In the blissful ignorance
of a world unknown
Unseen
Leaving the beast unbroken
with pure unfaltering
Spirit
Not seeing where he's going
No memory of where he's been
And no reason to hesitate

Wildfires
It has blazed fervently through the years
with no sign of weakening;
leaving trails of ash in its wake,
destroying homes and hearts.
Leaving tear and soot smudged faces by
the desolate roadside-homeless.
It slipped effortlessly over the ocean's glassy surface,
coiled over the illustrious countryside
Burning, burning on
Cleared the path of a tearful trail, crying for what's lost
Bloodied feet, caked with ash
It didn't stop for them
Burned over the blackened skin torn with scars
Cracked and burden-born hands carrying the
White footprints on their backs
It didn't stop for them
It burns over the cut-down pages washed white in Lamb's blood
burns freely over the golden ringing bells
Leaving steeple and pew untouched
Burns for us and coming closer
Burns our love, our children, and our hearts
We are nothing-as they were nothing
Just a few more charred corpses added to the body count
Left faceless and nameless in the midst of
A fiery aftermath
And it burns on
What more can burn? Where else can it go?
What will happen when we have run out of hate
and the fire sleeps beneath the cinders?

Rose War
I saw you, walking in the yard
One day
clinging desperately to life
beneath the scorching sun.
Your golden days had yet to come
You'd only just blossomed days before.
I gently cut you free, placed you in the small
crystal vase and gave you fresh water,
medicine coursing through the spider webbed veins of
your petals.
I hoped.
You struggled.
You fought. Days passed.
Sunbeams danced through the window
cascading over your now bouncing petals
rich and vibrant. You began to win
but had not won yet
I hoped,
you struggled
The phone rang. The battle lost.
I awoke the next morning
Your petals, outstretched embracing yesterday's sun
have wilted into a tight ball of
withered wasted life today.
Pressed between the uncut pages of a book
on the shelf, I will struggle to
keep you alive in my heart and remember
our battle, fought and lost
in hope.

Fallen Stars
Wasted Lives
Broken dreams
Limitless skies
Ripped at the seams
A light flicked out
Before life's December
The dying glow
Of fading embers
Fallen stars
Slipped from the sky
Dissipate from sight
With Heaven's soft sigh

Memories Best Forgotten
Hidden behind a murky fog
Drifting into solemn oblivion
That's where they belong
These memories best forgotten
Deep in darkness of the mind
Behind the black obsidian
Safe from tendrils of curiosity
That's where they should be
These memories best forgotten
A flicker of recollection
A bid to eternal damnation
Confusion best left to guess
In solitude of the imagination
Are these memories best forgotten
Kept in the silence of my mind
Locked in Pandora's hopeless box
No key made should fit the hole
Lest the amygdala knocks
These memories are best forgotten

The Sordid Rebirth
Yellow fog creeping in without a sound
Acid rain showering up from beneath the ground
Burn away the flesh that traps her here
Wash away his sins that wrap her in fear
Peel back the rank of his soiled caress
Cast aside with her white laced dress
Break free of this desecrated prison
Burst through the smallest incision
Fly away with broken wings
Immersed in the tearful song she sings
Pull her from this sunken grave
Amidst the rotted remains there's a light to save

The Dying Dream
Come back to us now
For you've slipped from our sight
Wandering blindly alone
Roam on without light
You've followed your heart
Into a world unknown
Your spirit is uncaged
A bird gone and flown
You've lost yourself
In a dream once worth dreaming
Searching for that gold
Now dull but once gleaming
You'll meet that world
Rigid, head on
And shatter yourself
In pieces; Undone
Come back to us now
The despair is too great
Follow back the beaten path
Before its too late

Lay Her to Rest
Pick from her hair shattered pieces of sky
Extinguish the stars that light up her eyes
Stop the beat that slows beneath her breast
Bring her racing mind to a solemn rest
Pull the touch from her fingertips
Kiss the last breath from her lips
Close her eyes to cascades of rain
Embrace the soul you've saved from pain
Lift the fallen angel you've slain

No, Navi (Fly, swim)
I do not know where I belong
But I know it is not with you
I look to the sky, I look to the sea
Both open, boundless, and blue
I look to the birds, flying free on a wing
I listen to dolphins and mermaids who sing
I've felt my heart flutter, free from my chest
I've felt my soul run though my body needs rest
I feel the soft summer breeze on my face
I know the chill of the winter's embrace
I've clawed at my brain, plagued with a rage
Struggling, fighting to break free of this cage
To fondle the lock that was made without key
To squeeze through the bars that no other can see
Perhaps only with death will freedom be found
The spirit flies high, but the flesh underground
In this world, I may always be lost
Wandering, aimlessly through
I may never know where I belong
But I know it is not with you

He Comes at Night
Death is knocking upon my door
Who will he take tonight?
I close my ears
Afraid to hear
The treacherous screams of fright
Blood is seeping through the door
One drop, two drops,
Three drops, more
Me, myself, I hit the floor
My voice, I chose not to implore
The screams? They came
And then they went
Emitting fresh crimson
Velvet scent
Seeping through the rusting vent
Urging sinners to repent
The sun rises in the night
Birds will fall as snakes take flight
I'll hold my sanity with all my might
Until Death reaches tomorrow's height

See
She awoke in the mourn
Sleepily forlorn
She didn't see them
Didn't see them
Walked through the day
Went her own way
She didn't see them
Didn't see them
Oblivious to their smiles
Unwelcome kindness defiles
She didn't see them
Didn't see them
Arrived home alone
Erased messages on the phone
She didn't see them
Didn't see them
It took her years
So many tears
To finally see them
To see them all
A broken heart
A world apart
Blindness lifted
A life truly gifted
To see them all
Standing there
All who ever
Truly cared
She saw them all
They broke her fall