Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Depths Of Self

Press against the darkness
With blinded fingers
And damaged heart
Look deeper into the heart of desire
Than any reflection can see
Mirror back a double-meaning

Unknown shores
Distant white hills
Green seas
Blue mountains
A beautiful power that resonates inside our souls
Like drums in the ocean
A hear-beat through our palms
Reverberating to our knees

Question the existence of life
As more than a refuse of mistakes
Refuge of lost souls
Who wander only to find their place
But grow more lost than before

White petals pearled with blood
Morning dew for some cosmological mind
Tears a trickling stream that sings the lament of the lost
Concave universe that's barely full

I'm watching the decline of my old self
Stunted by the constant presence of me
Like looking at the sun
And all I can see is stars
Looking at shadows 
When all I can really see is the light

When you look at a crystal
 You can't help but see many sides
Many sides to the same coin

I lose myself trying to find You
Sometimes this bubble seems so small
The one that I peer out of
Such a fragile, brittle wall

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Feeling



Acid rain that scatters rainbows in the sun
How you find the deepest parts of me
Unfailing


Pretty petals in the sun that drift about in errant breeze
Circle dance like butterflies of memory
Though remembering is so hard


And time decays them in the sun
Dust beneath realities feet
No less real, but dead and unchangeable
No less formative, but no more alive
Not anymore


Chemical as carbon-based
Down to simple equations
Transformed into vital, intense, and breathing
Raw as the beating sun tender in our breasts

Joy, sadness, and love
Wrapped around our inner selves like twine
Barbed wire around our soul that can only hold us together
As it slowly tears us apart


In the blistering heat of emotion
You flare and you shine
Then you wilt and cry
And something dies deep in the softest parts of you