Circles. (Spun)

The steeple sits silently as the choir sings.
Distantly a bridge collapses.
Seven casualties, Seven brides to be.
The bells toll seven times.
The priest prays for their souls.
The music for their would be spouses.
Non-existent.
Distantly, an empire falls.
Disastrously.

From the ashes rises the phoenix.
From the fire, seeds grow.
A passionate ascension.
Heaven awaits with golden wings.
Fruits from the tree of life,
Destined to whither far from the tree.
Far from the bell.
Deaf to the ringing.
Ignorant of liberty.

I once saw a spider on the wall.
It's web elegantly spun.
The flies caught on her trap
Helpless.
I once felt ashamed.

Luna: maid of honey.

Her pale face hidden.
Like a blushing rose.
Complimented color.
Light and darkness.
Surrounded by stars.
Nothing to howl at.

She's a mystery.
An epilogue.
to a greek tragedy.
An overture to more torment.
The end is again the beginning.

A feigning imitation of truth.
failed loquacity
A tongue tied apparition.
A pathetic attempt.
Apathetic whispers.
The "H" falls silent.

Hush little baby.
Don't say a word.

Waters of the southern sea.

Bleeding edge.
Crisp images of suffering.
Dark, crusted, festering growths.
The metropolis.
The bustling cancer.
Smoke filled center of gravity.

The gravity of the situation.
The pool house during summer.
Cesspool.
The poor house during winter.
Built for a king.
Slept in by cretins.

I washed in the southern waters.
Bathed in a ship wreck.
Cried in a burrow.
Died in a cocoon.
Buried at sea.

Oh native sun
Free me of your burden.
Save me from your nature.
Hide me from your light.

Cancer awaits at every corner.
She knows not why.

Raw Pots and the Metamorphosis

Dominate the playing field
The rules of war are complicated
Complicated and unbound.
Fear has no place.
Indecision neither
Hesitation finally too is unneeded.

The leering, looming, loquacious
Lieutenants lament the ever lasting loss of lives for love of living.

Love.
Indeed love and war one and the same.
Without discourse.
Not compromising.
Intensely primal.
irreversibly enchanting.

The ladybug slept soundly.
The caterpillar did not.
For the feet did march
And spring came for the first time.
Metamorphosis takes no prisoners.
Leaves no innocents.

A Black Eclipse

Once there was a lion.
A cub to be precise
Whom roared a withered cry.
This lion cub in winter
hid amongst the snow.

One day the winter's appetite grew
And consumed the lion whole.

A freezing day
It is today.
No eagles hope to soar.
A drop of rain will come in vain,
And leave your foreheads sore.

No summer will rise again.
Of this I can be sure.
So long as lions weep
And eagles sleep
Beneath the eclipsed shore.

A darkness falls upon us.
The degree of which unknown.
From this I heed a warning
That the cub did so abhor.

Hide under a mattress
Deep within your home.
For when the black eclipse passes
You will not be alone.

Once there was a kingdom..
Once there was an empire..
Once.

The gray delirium

I see it, at a distance.
The gray delirium.
My essence compounded.
Estranged.
Compounded by multiple eyes.
Estranged by a greater "Me".

My voice is gone.
A silent shriek remains.
A glowing confidence.
Unaware, vain, distant.

I wondered once.
I wonder constantly.
Am I out of it..
Touch.

Am I the obelisk?
Am I a stone statue?
Unmoved
Bewildered.
A relic.
Hardened by time.
Fragile.

Topple me.
Drop me
Break me.
To find out.

Spectrum. (Or the end of warmth)

Cut open another wound.
Cut around the dying flesh.
Remove the sadness from a dying heart.
Remove the fear.
The trepidation.

Five years gone by.
Five years to long.

The orange groves continue for eons.
The red rose stood on the foreground.
Envious .
Afraid.
Sad.

Cauterize the wound.
Stop the bleeding.
Love knows no bounds.
Dreams, no limit.
Put the heart on ice and take the cooler.

White lights are at the end of the tunnel.

A spectrum's agreement.

Life's only compromise.
It's last gift.

I see it now.
clearer than day.