I found my place in everything Last night As I lay beside you With my arm resting on your shoulder Our bodies intertwined We like to think In linear Perceiving death To be the pinnacle All else Leading up to the end But this is limited In understanding and application Life is much more complex … Continue reading All That We Ever Really Need
Month: July 2018
That All Else Might Be Illuminated Instead
I was conversing The other night With the voice on the wind On the topic of self And perspective We were discussing How the universe exists Inside of the mind And how naturally The mind places itself at the center As we spoke I posited What I should do To reject this Seeking at the … Continue reading That All Else Might Be Illuminated Instead
Speak
You have a right A responsibility even To speak So do so now Let the words spill From your heart To carry your soul's song To lift it high That all might know You As you deserve to be known As you are Beautifully unique A shining gem Tossed amongst the sand of this world … Continue reading Speak
These are the Moments
These are the moments To remember So simple But so intricate in the complexity of grand context Sitting quietly around crackling embers The warmth tying us together A nexus for spirits high The sound of the guitar humming in the background Staring softly into the glowing logs As if we can see right into the … Continue reading These are the Moments
Sometimes
Sometimes Looking back at the life I have lived thus far I feel As If I can do nothing right As if each step is in the wrong direction As if Despite best intentions And honest effort All that I set out to accomplish Is destined to erode Before my eyes For I leave in … Continue reading Sometimes
Drawn Only to You
There have been nights when Upon waking I wished I had not Dreams to which waking life Has felt not but a fevered segue And I have often cursed the hours for passing so quickly between the time I close my eyes and the moment they next open But these days I wake to find … Continue reading Drawn Only to You
There is a Darkness Within Me, the Same as Within You
How often we fail to perceive Beyond these pale forms Seeing only what we desire Thinking it right Seeking only to prove Rather than to seek proof Believing that what we know Is all that must be known Caring not for truth Preferring self-validation But there is a darkness within me The same as within … Continue reading There is a Darkness Within Me, the Same as Within You
On a Grand Scale
To give is to receive Life Can be made To hold meaning Beyond that which any words could capture For value is derived Not inherent Defined at will By those that conceive it Time is much the same In that our only evidence of it's existence Are it's effects observed Perceived and interpreted Within a … Continue reading On a Grand Scale
Old Scars
Old scars Have all but faded now But the memories Still remain Nothing really ever ends We assume new forms daily In thought and In manifest presence And with each casual glance At what was and still is We return To prior days Reminiscent but distant just the same.
Remnants of a Landscape We Once Knew
I am not here I cannot tell you where I am For I do not quite know Myself Do you believe in me? Do you believe in you? Do you believe in the now? I can't really say if I do Though it is just as well Sometimes the question Does not beget an answer … Continue reading Remnants of a Landscape We Once Knew
