My world now alight
The mountain chill
The soft summer night
Where once we were
And now no more
With feet so brazen sure
This land swallows
Peak to pebbled shore
Paths that once we made
We were here, We were here
Once & Nevermore
My lover stands upon the edge, waiting next to me,
She, the bringer of the hurricane and the pure glass sea
The embodied tempest storm of long and fearful night
The quelling stillness of the soft, sacred morning light
There she stands, both at once, infinitely entwined
A force inimitable, both in body and in mind
The love of night, The love of day
With currency of sleep we pay
The chiding morning bids us sleep
With unimagined colors, full & deep
We shall speak of this once
And then speak no more
Of Minds & Love & Loss
Of Music & Color & Cost
We shall speak & See
Us together be & we
Shall shut our eyes nevermore
Then we forced the sunlight
From our eyes
Locked ourselves inside
The darkened night
Where we could only
Touch &
Feel &
Hold
Fell within our measured breathing
Listened to the light
The creeping beauty
Dripping through the cracks
Of our unfinished souls
A rock upon a tree
The picture of who I've come to be
With the crested light I begin to fear,
That I do not belong. Here.
A topple, A touch
The bankrupt dreams I've ransomed for so much
A rock upon a tree
Not quite caged, Not quite free
We fall victim to the lies
Of concrete whispered amongst
The traffic lights & bleach that sterilize our souls
Welcome the dirt to your feet
Let the moss grow on the north side of your heart
I'll be right there
Where the air, fair & crisp
Lifts the weight of chains
We've shackled to ourselves
When I was just a boy,
I would look upon the mountain top and say,
I will be like that,
Just like that some day,
Veiled in strength,
Never to be broken,
Built of stone,
Simply known with words unspoken,
Now a little older with new perspective,
I begin to see,
The Stoney top offers no life,
Not one single tree,
So bring to me the valley green,
I will tell you of the things I've seen,
Through Avalanche & Rocks that slide,
How through the years I've journeyed down the mountainside
I am Ice & I am fire
I soar above the clouds
I wallow in the mire
I am never who I want to be
Only ever as I am
Hold tight in the winding boundaries
Of my ever muddled attempts to be better
The stars, the trees
The clouded dreamers in between
Sometimes it's not enough.
The World.
And I don't know why.
I do.
The first step
Out the door
Is always
The greatest
Adventure
I sleep to dream
In my dreaming, scheme
That when my eyes awake
The morning light I might take
Hold this silence, pure & unrefined
With these hues aloft & settle my mind
Stillness at the rise
Stillness at the set
The calm subduing all regret
Ten billion born before
Not now & never more
Could there ever be
Another, so bold
So kind, so free
When night can no longer say, I am here, I am here, I am gone away
The sea sits still, Rests within the confines of my will
I shall be standing where I stood, Where my life once turned to soured wood
Pillars bereft by water salted, The tide of glass still vaulted
Mornings untold call, To you, to me, to all
The rise of sun protracted, The morning light refracted
The same ocean of hurricanes, of ships and lives i bend at will
Now this morning, with you here resides the perfect still
There are certain people in this world, that inspire us to pursue our passions, teach us that love is not expectant, friendship is not a bartered system & that the world holds wonders worth seeing.
The plunge
The chill
The resolute self will
Sunlight, Sunrise
Golden Skies & Amber Eyes
Night drains the sunlight from the sky
The darkness made bearable by you standing nigh
Hold my hand and hold the light
The only one I want beside me through the night
Falling hurts, With moments of regret, But never having jumped? That will crush your soul
The jumping creates the falling, The falling is the fear, That the ground has simply disappeared, The weightless moments we in part, Wonder that we ever had the notion at the start
The wind carries aloft
My wings, my dreams & many other things
I have flown over mountains
Through the rain, through the snow
Of all the things I don't,
There is one I've come to know
Life only resonates the seeds we sow
Forward, forward
One step more
One step further
Then we've ever been before
The rain above us
The mud below
Onward down the trail we go
I think you are smart
You think I'm pretty
We are now both Harts
And both kind of witty
I'd stay right here
Just me and you
Free from all fear
Together, one, two
We are always coldest
When surrounded by the heat
The fire that burns inside
The ice beneath our feet
The memories & thoughts
That warm a heart so still
Hurtle forth our minds
Towards an icy chill
This life on the road
This life on the run
The rust I've collected
The person I've become
Then I said "My love,
I'm frayed at the edges
Cracked from surface to core
The rust isn't pretty
That's not what we are for
My love I'm unraveling,
Mind & body and in between
Like the moment before you wreck,
So slow & peaceful, so serene
My love I'm fraying at the edges
The metal all exposed
Raw nerves laid open
Of one, once
So peaceful,
So composed"
The birth, the death
The living once again
The fire, the fever
Burns within, burns without
Creates, destroys
Haunts, taunts
Goading the dissatisfaction
Of self tormented souls
Promising brilliance
Promising blackness
The birth, the death
The living once again
The Brightness
The Darkness
Collateral Light
Flares in an instant
And straight out of sight
Pulsating rage
Unsettling haze
Sits undiscovered
Unsettled unrecovered
Seems only one way
For them to see
Burn fast
Burn bright
Burn free
Somewhere here, where we reside
Precise & constant as the tide
Timed explosions
Timed regret
The rust I've encouraged
The corrosion I can't forget
I sank the first ship
You scuttled number two
Sitting in the harbor
Tied to the anchors that we threw
Locked within our constructs
Engines seated on the ground
Now, to never utter further sound
Made by machines
As machines made me
Locked chains to our past
Ever struggling to be free