twittling his thumbs
the wayward sat
stone silent
against the marble
wall
too wandered-out lost
in a pillar
of thought
about fire
to notice he
was on it.
take this how
you will
but he never
once screamed.
where
the birds swim
below in the
pillow pink ocean
and fish
fly above
in the glimmer
green sky
but a cynic
will still
find a fault
in the faeriedust
only a snob
breathes
contempt
with a sigh--
Where is the moon? Thought I spied it among the vast
Mobile of stars hanging over your bed, but hey,
I could be wrong. Don't know what I know anymore that you're
Far away gone. I'll just wait here till morning.
Ten feet to my six. Here I'm four underground. Is this
Something to do with why we never saw eye to
Eye? There I was standing tall with a view while you
Spied only what you could see through this earthen frame.
Angles are everything. Maybe that's why the moon
Fell out of sight when I conquered my fear and came
Down here to sleep with the dirt and the worms. But in
Spite of the light being gone, I can see you now.
M
Into and on through the
eye of the mind and the
tree growing onward and
over the sky is a
mystery sought by the
righteous sublime.
Ground ever grasping, my
gills ever gasping, the
time ever lapsing and
passing me by; have I
courage to climb or in
comfort I lie?
Which I will wonder and
wish into life is a
matter of trusting the
angel inside, or of
falling and failing and
fearing Divine.
Terrors and tremors and
nightmarish plight, or an
eye ever seeing the
holiest sight? For this
darkness is only an
absence of Light.
Vibratory vessels
in my veins,
a vindication.
A lie I taught,
a lie I told,
a fabled fabrication
has fallen to
the firestorm of
my imagination.
That sheet before
the seven more
that sing of the salvation
fell in three,
and now I must
ascend this scale of seven
between this mortal
neverending
thirst for my addiction
and forever finding
fact from fiction;
truth in utter contradiction.
Grown bored of sleep,
he beat his alarm
to waking. And so he
sets to conquer the day.
Anxious in its grasp,
his things take to pack.
But only so much will
allot to carry on.
The world at his fingers
in miniature keys.
What to do with idle
moments loading the page?
All in a hurry, the
traveling man, to catch
a plane that leaves
every hour.
Three of us, needing a roof in the rain; we took
Not to our homes but the courtyard instead, for our
Curious ears had led us to a man who was
Speaking in riddles and waking the dead.
Taking our time, we strolled over to see what this
Man was there saying, and saying it loud! And then
Asking him kindly, he simply replied he was
"Whispering wisdom--not making a sound."
Then standing silent, but gesturing still as if
He was still shouting--but nothing was said; and to
Baffle us further, his three only pupils, he
Then placed a basket on top of his head.
People ran by us with papers above their heads,
Paying no mind to this man that
bury me, bury me not
burn flesh from bone
grind bone to dust
fling dust to wind
let the world carry me aloft
better that than
some strange, sterile lot
bury me, bury me not