A SHORT RIDE HOME

I recognized that smell
of cheap plastic seats
looking like fake leather
The blue stars from the fifties
that painted the tin ceiling
and the smell of spring
that clanked against the aged bus windows
There's less noise now
but I could hear the children's laughter
and the teasing in the narrow aisle
It left me thinking
Why are we rushing through life?
To get to our end?
There once was a time of innocence
and a time where we could depend
I say live life to each new day
and to live like we're kids again.

WHERE WERE YOU

when I cried
when I lied
when I dived
and I flied
when I fell
when I highed
when I helled
and I sighed
when I sat
in my bed
until time
was at end
when I plead
asking why
til you called
and you lied
about life
and your own
how you cheat
and get stoned
well I know
why you did
and you fuck
like a bitch
and get mad
when I did
not get off
when you did
what you felt
in your head
now you're left
asking why
I did not
say goodbye
but when two
become one
theres a crime
not undone
cause I'm here
living life
with another
deep inside.

DEATH SEEKER

The veins of the Earth
rooted and ravished in peach
seeps in fields of spring
The hum of the sun
fills full
deep greens
as I lay you down in golden leaves
With eyes closed and soft cheeks
a purple collar holds your neck
with fingers

With my hand upon your chest
I reach in
past the physical form of you
Your lungs-
He filled with air
Your heart-
He pushed and pumped

Wrestling branches breathe in and out
exhaling life's last breath
All eyes are watching

WATER LILY

The calm of noon breathes through me

forming lulls of lyrics down my back

There is no right place in this world

yet we search for its beauty to unfold

Like a plucked blossom in the palm of my hand-

its simplistic art too will fade

losing its nectar

as its surroundings absorb its light

So why do we tread and trip toward our end

The sun will set and rise again

in between we're just living in a state of silence

where images weave in and out

planting seeds in our minds

merely to keep us alive

All I know

is that the sun in bright and I live for the night

but my voice will not be heard

I'm drowning here.

GREEN SUN

Round glowing orb of transient heat.
Outstretched arms of fire, attracting my eyes
I can’t look away, I yearn for complete.
You’re a pebble in the shoe of day-lit skies.

While viewing from here, as a planet so small,
submerged in a galaxy distant from you-
the days linger on as I wait for nightfall,
but morning will come with a day that is new.

The sun will then wake, sprinkling dew in my eyes.
Jealous light will hide night, casting you from the skies…