Sunday, May 15, 2016

Liquid courage

Rivers run deep.
Above the head that dreams of stars
The drowned affliction of our hopes
Regretted soundly in our sleep. 

Retreaded roads to a dead end. 
Retreated divers with the bends.
Retired notes you'll never send.

Still 
The water is too alive
Beneath 
Below.
Deep inside.
Bottled.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Nocture revised

Glass stained with the morning dew. 
That nectar of night.
The midnight that blossums into morning as the cold heart of darkness pumps emphatically with warmth at dawn. 
 
Thoughts cascade like snow 
and the dreaming sadness of night permiates in a soulful awakening. 
Broken yet unscathed, 
Open yet unused. 
Afraid and at war. 

To so fear love. 
A goudy blade of adolescence.
The wounds: still festering like 
apprehension, like insecurity.

You can't hurt a storm..  
Nor blanket it from chaos. 
But as the world does turn; so too does the sun shine brightly. 
 Winds die. Fear subsides
And courage is to love what it leaves behind.