The Ways

Frail and holden are the ways
Sunken in a darkness of days

The steps that lead us on are tested are wrested from our world
From our sounds
And hopes
Lost and so real
I stay a while to contemplate their crackings

The ways are traces
Unfair images of our faces
Sodden frames of our lives
And they free our lies

Our divine scars
Then become a beautiful piece an iridescent thought
Scrawled like an afterthought of gods
Traced as if this were just some line in the sands of the universe
To be washed away with the next wave

And I cry that no
That all is so surreal
To be truly unreal
Something stands forever
In the lived minds of never

Please tell me I imagine
What is to have been
When we sleep we awake to the truth of our hopes
Our hopes are the translation of our beliefs
Songs of the deaf
Vistas of all the blinded ones
Tell me that I stand
My lies are true
My truths are more than lies

Forest Deep

In the forests deep inside my head
you are the tender moss underfoot
and the treegreen light that on me is shed
washing us of all this dark world's soot

Iredescent dragonflies hover thru the light
at the maw of budding flowers await
I also circle around you with my sight
as each blossom, until the day we mate

So this short poem is to thank you...
for having ventured into my forest deep
the dark and brambles you braved too
but now in our secret garden we'll forever sleep

Forgive Me

I bend my knees and cry for your pardon all those that I let down in my life
a scream for forgiveness I open my heart and
purge myself of all the jealousy and the crimes I thought, said and did

women of my life I beg that you understand that I am only weak and feeble like all men
mother of mine through the dirt and grime please comprehend my pain and the nature of me
wife that was forgive me for the crimes that were only in your head but also for the ones that were real even though it did not work I loved you and have sinned
darling daughter maybe one day you'll see your dad and ask why
I tried darling
Michelle loving you made me whole when I was broken forgive me for the crimes that will come for my eyes and my mind

forgive me god forgive me earth
the tendrils of life are so strong and yet ether only
the spirits understand that we drink to forget and then remember..
I ain't lamenting just emptying my mind of all escape
free from the forgiveness of the world free from the pardon and burden of love and religion
just wanna be loved and held close
alone I write these words that scrawl and hurt my fingers
they burn and sear my mind as the kiss is lost in the vastness of space
free of all error
free of mores
free I hold these chains in my hands and think
free as I see the bars of my cell
I can talk thus because I have been there
I laugh and maybe I will die but so be it
I have eating this and drunk from the cup
and sin and forgiveness means nothing as I sink into my life

my knees hurt as I open my eyes from my wildly travelling and dreaming mind
forgive me