LITERAL REMAINS

I know what you wanted-
I’m sorry what you found.
There’s no one here to set you free,
only me to keep you bound.
You dream love in bloom as a rose,
but the thorns keep it real;
the sad reality brings the blood
and crucifies the heart’s ideal.
If I confessed to your every tear,
then more the tears you will shed;
if I [...]

A Mystery
I’ve been watching the light fade,
watching as Summer slowly ebbs away;
the katydids are singing, thirty days ’til frost.
We better bring in the harvest, or what
these hearts planted will surely be lost.
So, are we right, or are we so very wrong?
Some hearts take time to cultivate, and
some, like mine, take so long to thaw,
but once [...]

To____
For every way that I conceal myself,
You have a way of making me reveal myself.
Your every look, your every smile,
Your every touch calms me for a while.
When I feel broken, sad, and down
You come to me with your sweet sound,
Your voice, like an angel, helps me to forget the dangers
That this world holds vicious [...]

You Remind Me of a Song
You remind me of a song far better than this
A vitality of life I once had the pleasure to kiss
A memory that lived and breathed me to thrill
A memory I tried to forget but it haunts me still
It’s easy for someone to say “Life goes on”
But the days struggle [...]

Okay, I found a few files, but not all the ones I was looking for.  If I were a little more organized it would not be so frustrating.  I really need to clean this desk, everything.  Where did I put all those other poems?  I know I was looking at them not too long ago, [...]

Flame 
You call me after dark;
Maybe I don’t feel like a torch song tonight.
Maybe I don’t need any of your redemption,
But I want to go if only out of my own spite.
I still have your picture, I don’t know why,
It’s the picture you gave me that one time.
I look longing at your lips and shoulders,
Longing for [...]

All God’s Children Have Wings
(for K.C.) 
I won’t tell you how far down I’ve sunk,
Or that tonight I’ve reached an all time low.
I’ll spare you the details, as ugly as they are;
It’s a heavy burden, and it hurts too much to know.
But understand the wilderness plays tricks,
And it’s tried to turn me against you;
It has turned [...]

A Hundred Different Ways 
In a million years, a thousand
Days, or ninety seconds from now,
The sky will fall a hundred different
Ways, and Beauty might find its rest
In the fifth corner of a secret grave. 
All the kingdoms that use the earth,
All the empires we built up by
Hand, all our treasures will pale
In the shadow of ruin, and [...]

Robert Johnson
 
The sun is set over the hills
    and I sure can’t see
The sun is set over the hills
    and I sure can’t see
The night has come from down below
    and the dark is getting to me
 
I’ve bent down and prayed
    I’ve been to the crossroads
I’ve bent down on my knees and prayed
    down at [...]

Canticles
 
your love is better than wine
lily among thorns
your eyes are doves’ eyes by the rivers of waters
 
let me hear your voice, for sweet is the sound,
until the day break and the shadows flee away.
 
I sleep but my heart wakens, it is the voice of my
beloved.
 
my heart yearned for you
my soul failed when my beloved spoke
 
turn [...]

How to Quit
 
I woke up today and
found my life was shit.
Everything.
I need to put it to a stop,
but I don’t know how to quit.
 
If I would just fade away, be
the nothing that I feel;
if I could mute your voice….
I know all this despair is just
all the rage distilled.
 
If you would go away and
leave me to [...]

The Dying Embers of Evening’s Light
 

I keep warm in the pocket of my heart
The picture of her that graces my wallet.
Either Love, or Lust, or Madness, it is wrong
Whatever name you’ve decided to call it.
There is a chill wind that resides in
The evening light’s falling;
The owls are out and the katydids are calling,
A duet with [...]

The Other’s Web
Maybe I’m a moth
drawing closer to your flame.
Maybe you’re a fox and
I’m unsuspecting game.
Or maybe you’re Jesus
come to heal the lame.
Sometimes we’re spiders,
sometimes we’re flies,
sometimes wanderers barely
passing the other by.
Sometimes we’re missed calls
losing faith on the line.
I’m the ship, you’re the sea-
I’ve begun to sink,
drowning in your tempest
and dying for a drink.
Life should give [...]

Carrion
 
I brought my tools to
    take you apart
I’ll eat you piece by piece to
    save you this disease
I’ll make sure not to leave
    any trace of you behind
The sickness will find
    nothing of you left, not
        even the scent of your hair
            or the stains on your bed
It will be like you [...]

WYSIWYG

The monolith of wrath in the
sky plugs the hole that will
suck the world inside out
Just when he closed his
eyes and imagined there
was nothing, he knew it
was real, he knew it was
the truth

This machine was made
to fade away, there’s no
stopping the fall apart
Every day passes a little
quicker, the machine is
less substantial and it
knows it’s gotten sicker
Its [...]