Damn

Damn all the things that we've ever said
That were medicine
But too hard to swallow
Damn all the promises of a life yet to live
If they can't get us through to tomorrow.

All Love

All love given as I Owe You's
Left unpaid and overdue
When one is dead, the other risen
To a life of debtor's prison
Has passed into eternity

Chorus to a Dead Tune

Don't want to make up
I just want to make love
Don't want to break down
I just want to die in love.

Alive Alone In Love and Always Dying

I tasted the deep of the blood of your love
Which the kiss of your mouth laid bare
My hand on your hips, my tongue on your teeth
My word of eternity breathed on your lips
Your heart is my fate
My fate is my death
May my eyes close at last in your arms and despair.

For Heaven's Sake

For heaven's sake
Hell awaits
You're running late

Half-Moon

Half-moon
Half awake
Smiling with a harvest grin
Yellow stained and ancient teeth
Like a happy old god

Do Not Go Gentle

Do not go gentle into that dark night

It writes,

Misquoting in memoriam

Within the fog of a march morning

Remembering the dead

-and the dead still living

It reminds itself that it is no different

That it is the worst of these

That there is no one to blame

-but itself

That the Gods are so far beyond comprehension

That hating them is simply an excuse to lie

The masters have indeed taught us well

-for the love of God is truly the love of oneself

And that killing a thing is killing the God within

Woe to the human whose higher intellect has been used for murder, for greed, for usury!

The day of transformation cometh, and you shall be changed into something else entirely!

And if it is nothing at all, why have you not taken comfort in the moment?

Woe to the lazy, the fat-ass, the video-game demigod who has not shared with others his weakness!

It will miss the leveling of worth and the power of truly being!

Woe to the indifferent!

That which has made you is that which you have become -your identity lost.

Woe to the market for attention and souls!

You have sold not only your own, but those of your children.

The crash is forth-coming, and with it

The Greatest of all Depressions.

Elora

Supernova star-child
Illuminating old eyes
With swirls of locks
And a hula-hoop

Desert heart

Salt-sea air floods the desert heart
Scatters death sand and haunted soul
Of a fading ghost-town memory

Slower Than Time

Words move slower than time
Break the bones of the old
Pierce the heart of the young
Twist minds
And cause slips of the tongue

Starfire Sandpiper

this existing,
ephemeral,
imaginary,
and quaint,
Has had its head messed,
and,
mind shook
up,
just in time,
To see the light,
Before dusk, has brought
Cancer to the dream,
That one day,
This animal soul, will leap headlong,
Into the breaks, between soft and density,
between air and might.
But by and by, and in the likeness of god
the vanities, Upon my lips,
speak consonant, vowel,
adjective and verbial,
Disillusioned,
deposed,
waiting on a
Half-had life,
and a heart to break

The Ballad of You Can All Kiss My Ass

May the Lightning

El of a Thousand Victories
Maker of crowns and histories
Heart of the Living Ancient of Days
Bestower of Smiles and Destinies
Bless this child

A Palm Seed

A palm seed perhaps
Waiting for water enough
To dig in and root

Sleep In You

If I could sleep inside your body
On a long cold night
To find your dream
You would awaken
To live it

Heart-shaped

A heart-shaped glass half-full

Repair

After the storm
We repaired the sails
Swabbed the deck
And unbarreled the limes and oranges
With a new name
And destination
We set out for the New World
Penitent and hopeful

Damn Expectations

I expected to be noticed, I thought I would be moved
Further from neglect, perhaps close to being used

The Lie

If white unknown from the tongue
As a dove
Flies
And is regretted in release

Please

Please bear in mind
That I love you
And all that you are
Even when I hate
Those few small things
For the moment

Moon

Upon the path
To kiss the sun
I saw her light
And came undone
And as the dusk
Behind her came
I followed close
And screamed her name
But turning not
Her form did fade
Into the night and shade

Destiny

We have hitched our hope to a falling star
But the moment is bittersweet
For though swiftly we ride to consummate death
We live
We love
We believe.

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Not the Enemy

He scaled the wall
To the temple
Replaced the heart
He'd stolen long ago
Turned to leave
Through open the open gates
Welcoming him home.

A Black Dream

Across blue waters
The heart lies red
Bleeding out into
Greener pastures.

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Covered

Look with your mind at the soul here beneath
At the joy of the flesh held reserved
Self-assured and covered in promises
That no other may yet observe.

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Paradox

Man is the maker of the music of dreams
For a woman to dance within
Though the notes cannot be played
Until the dance begins

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Fear is a Sigil

Fear is a sigil born in blood

Inscribed upon the heart bewitched

Fed by time through wars of tongues

And sealed with a lover's kiss

You Don't Say

Water, like words,
Turned to ice
Fall upon the soul and skin
A dark and lovely magic
And the trickiest part
Is knowing
That both death from above
And reverberation
Are formed of the same small substance
Of which also make life and love.