Glistening Words
Listening to glistening words
Birds circle endlessly, mindlessly
Finding time, rhyme and primal thoughts
Begotten of stress-this mess is blessed
With the higher pyre
Nonsense is at best a defense
Minded, blended and blinded
By single-minded purpose, designed to
Usurp us and refined in kind
In a scheme yet dreamed
To enter December in its icy splendor
Pagan rite! Delight in the sight
The brighter eyefest tested and
Carried back, hairy, black in fact
And too inquisitively dismal
Listening to glistening words
A coy ally to toy with in time
The signs still sublime
Yet clear with fear…so near
From our hearts it parts
Nonsense makes pensive expanses
When chance leaves the dance, heaves
And pushes forth…towards the door
Barred by a tardy heart, alerted, harmed
In its charmed alarm
To enter December, white and tender
Remembering the clever lover of forever
Pulled and pulled, fooled by cruel words
Heard, hard discarded, broken-hearted
Never started and hence departed
“Till the clock struck fore
Then seven-the silent evermore
And I shall wonder
Once the solution became the cause
Have I slain thee oh Brother?
Have you chained my heart?
Now given and held
Dying at this insight, for wrong it is
No joke made by satanic folly
Is more corrupt than my dream”
My life
Empty, confused, meaningless
A million miles from here
A desert wind on a blinding sand dune
You appear
A life-line, a dream realized
What was dying reborn
My heart, vision rekindled
So unaware
That beauty could be mine
To hold, to love, to cherish, to nurture
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In my heart
Alas, not in my life
Your life initiated
By acts of love
And by this love
We were parted
In my heart
To womanhood you grew
Sad, I did not witness
Nor was I there to hold you
To dry your tears
Never to calm your fears
In my heart
Always a part of my soul
I searched, Yes! In vain
And I waited on tender hopes
That you would someday
Seek me out Continue reading →
In darkest night when fear awakes
And ghosts emerge from their hiding place
I take my love by trembling hand
Together we walk nightmares’ land
Where terror lurks ’round every bend
In blackest black, end without end
I hold my love close to my heart
And boldly stroll where paths are hard
When dreams escape, let no dread fall
Behind the closed eyes of our wall
I raise my love above myself Continue reading →