There is a grey shroud
Covering the daybreak world
As though she is in mourning
For crimes yet to be committed
A mask of silver lace
To hide a demure face
And the swollen sky is heavy
With tears waiting to be shed
And they will either be a healing cleanse
Or they will drown us in the end

there is a good in me
i’ve tried my best to kill
but it keeps returning
like lazarus from the dead
and haunting my waking steps

perhaps i can learn
to live with this corpse
that animates my actions
and forces me forward
one step at a time

or perhaps one day
i’ll find a hole deep enough

The moon in the cold black sky
Looks like an old bronze coin
Worthless to me
Much too far away
To be anything
But ineffective
And the tides it pulls
Are not my own

there is no weight
nor pressing burden
that you can’t carry
no road you can’t drive
no obstacle that
you cannot overcome

you are strength
and abiding love
your fire –
it’s unquenchable
never forget,
you are not afraid of anything.
you are to be feared.

Stop writing!

My god

You’re like a tire

With a slow leak;

Gradually flattening

Until you’re no good,

Just a shapeless ring

With no beginning

With no end

And no use at all.

The path leads

Over the edge

Of the volcano

Though some

Would walk

It willingly

If only for

The brief

And warm

Embrace

Of the

Welcoming

Lava below.

What kind of drug are you

That creates such need

Every minute of every day

Until the teeth fall out

And the skin turns grey

And every night

Bleeds into every day?

The killing kind

My love, my love

The soul-filling,

Life and death entwined kind

That will lead them to the highest heights

And let them go

To watch them fall

As a comet to the earth below

The skies are weeping

As if someone told them

“It is ok to cry, let it all out”

And so they did

As the earth soaked up the grief

Creating life and growth abundant

Out of the heaven’s sadness

As if to say that goodness can come

Even from the bleakest pain

Change is on the wind

Like the arrival of a storm

Or perhaps its end

As the grey of the sky

Meets the grey of the sea

And you could drown in either

While you stand in the rain

Bearing burdens that just get heavier

Waiting for your back to break

Waiting for the world to take

This ever growing heartache

That never goes away.

May i never seek to get

Everything i want

At the cost of pain

In the ones around me

May i never become that monster

Uncaring and unfeeling

A coward unwilling to sacrifice

Hiding in the dark

Dying every minute

Dying every day