I sit with the stars To remind me Of the difference between long And short And old and young And that even things that look alive sparkle and shine Are already gone And everything dies And the vast And the small Will come to us all Because these things I forget sometimes
Curiosity is a craving Sent out upon the world And it is never quite satiated Instead it licks And gulps Lolls in the shade of a tree For but a heartbeat Before the question monster kicks in again To live within the predatory Appetites of a curious mind Is to never know peace Apart from […]
Like a bird unable to alight I could not find peace Nor quiet Branches of thought crumpled beneath weight And my mind buzzed loud with words I could not speak Yet they formed thick sentances And I had not brought a notebook with me I walked the block Drifting from shop to shop Smiling and […]
How long does something stay in the mind? A ridiculous amount of time It seems Cobwebs woven across neurons Catch my softened eyelids Jerking me into a memory laid down Years ago A skin I no longer own I guess it used to be But now? Meaningless Like Thumbing through clothes That used to fit […]
You can lose yourself at 2am Trapped somewhere between Yesterday and ten years ago Worrying ahead Peering into the impenetrable fog Of a life yet to be lived As if thinking your way carefully Is some sort of prevention device For mistaken history Fate does not require compliance It is relentless in its punctuality Turning […]
If tears had words They wouldn’t be needed And if pressure could burst Gently There would be no point Volcanoes lay dormant For Millenia Beneath basalt And turf Lava boils unheeded There is a point to anger It has magnificent power But if it can’t be contained Controlled, Built It adds nothing to the moment […]
When a butterfly emerges No one is watching Except the organism That is transformed Nobody understands it either Not truly We can observe the exterior But we can’t feel the experience Of sludge Becoming membrane Growing wings Or the confusion Occurring within A tiny brain Metamorphosis happens Far from the gaze A caterpillar builds a […]
The fast moving vehicle Problem Issue We are ensnared within the folds of speed and rush Confusion and chaos cling to things that move fast Enveloping us Like a boa constrictor Crushing Only stillness causes the bindings to drop Silence clears the mind A diamond raindrop slides Landing with a plop It stops me Saves […]
Nature doesn’t change because you want her to Nor does she listen If you wish to argue with her current status Nature doesn’t bend to the whimsy of others And I’ve never heard a tree complain Even when it is struck asunder by lightning Nor the ground run away frightened By the intensity of the […]
We see skin And think it solid Surface appearance That we acknowledge as if the coatings Around those edges are finite Representative Of the individual within They are not. For we are spirits blending and dissolving Into God Someone asked me “What religion do you tick on the statistics” I said none Because I only […]
