A whisper of breath
breaks the silence
A whiff of the sweetened air.
I stare.
...a strained gasp

The sun sweeps the room
caressing your skin
A caramel kiss I crave.
You stare.
...a soft smile

The dust dances in the air to the distant melody
Your hands in mine...

A yearning that echoes in defiance,
yet never came to pass

You fade, a remnant husk
A rift in what could have been.
An unfleeting memory
edged on the horizon of my mind

MAZE

I meander in a maze of thoughts
dark and deeply hidden
in memory's prison
moments best left forsaken
cruel epiphanies of sad recollections
haunting my waking hours.
there is no escape from self.
no chance to change the past.
for all has been written
and fortoid
marked by hell's fire
and Heaven's rage.

It took death
To bless the endless deserts of my life
With rain of hope enough
To green despair
Back into emerald forests of care

A CROWN OF THORNS

I have always sought to know
what cannot be known or seen
by the human mind
Man is blind to the signs
that tell of heaven and hell.
the Universe is mute
and its songs are not heard
while we are on this earth.
Man storms the heavens
seeking to bring down the Gates
of Truth where there is none.
foolish are we who try to open
locked doors.
tragic are we who wonder
at our last hour
and sad are we who only see
the thorns and not the flower.

Another sunset another sunrise

The sun as it sets simply says....
give others a chance....
as in the mid of night
you romance.....
as you dance and prance...
let others warm up too
it’s like another cold world....
hope all this knew...

as there is only one sun
you can heat up
in a modern environment
many need the sun more...
as poverty is now on shore..

As time goes by ,
I think of how things
Have Changed,
Buildings crumble and fall
To the ground,
Paving the ground for brave
New days,
My mind aches
from memories of Good times
And friends,
And I notice I've slowed down a bit,
As old age creeps it's way in ,
As Time ticks away ,
I can feel my body
Grow Shallow and frail,
For I know that someday I'll
Leave this body
Nothing more than an empty shell,

Ice
Dice
roll
to
fall
upon
a
double
five
smooth
as
glass
slide
the stones
from
pointed
tongue
to
tongue
to
pass
the
bar
on the
way
home,
get
the party
safely back
and
one
by
one
into
the
winning
stack.

Waking up to police banging
at the door 5 o'clock in the morning
disturbing
hearing he's a live
hopeful.

holding on to that hope
a hour drive to the hospital
comforting
seeing him hooked up to a breathing tube
horrific
neck brace around his neck
scary.

seeing his eyes opened
a mother's saving grace
thanking God in all his glory.

he suffered eight broken ribs,
shattered spleen,
collapsed lung;
he lives to see his newborn son.

In the herd, I saw you
The silence, deafening truth
And the boat lies waiting
Still your arms are flailing
And in the sky, you are waiting….

What have I lost? An ocean.
Now I am drifting in pollution
In this sandbox of love….

What have I lost? An ocean.
And am I going through the motions,
In this lost art of love?

It keeps you in the saddle
It keeps you in the sky
You’ll sleep like a child
Knowing we are all wild

In this ocean of love

LETHE’S WATERS

Love transcends all things
except death’s silence.
we speak to the dead
as though they can hear
but the echoes of our own voice
tell us no one is there.
or have the departed tasted
of Lethe’s waters to forget
the world they left behind,
blind now to our existence
no memories to care.
my heart still sickens
after so many years
and I awake each lonely day
with a soul so broken
I can hardly pull back
from the pain of despair