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Ever screaming towards a distant point unseen
the whole of everything is barreling past
who could have known the world would move so fast
the rushing air and tears pulled by the slip stream
at a speed that makes the journey seem obscene
Clearly the moment to stop has long since passed
but an ending is coming – this cannot last
a sad finality one could have foreseen.
The destination approaching is a dream
lost inside a memory one can’t recall
but in its approach one can feel it defined
though the path may have a conclusion it seems
the journey was laid in cold repose at the fall
when from thirty stories up I chose to resign.

Correspondence

Letters were written and sent
left lounging in boxes
collecting dust but never collected
the recipients were all dead

But somewhere a machine toiled
to author heart felt compliments
that would graciously be ignored
and eternally unread

The stationary carefully selected
personalities matched with texture
habits assigned a color
but no one to read what they said

“We’ve heard and grieve your lament
but still, human life must be rejected.

Shipwreck

Waves claw at the shore
then draw back
whispering for more.
There are no sirens at sea
no guile to set us free

Though the ocean may beg and plead
there are no sirens at sea
hidden amongst the ship’s debris

When our confidence is under attack
nothing need draw us down to the sea floor
we will see ourselves drowned for what we lack

There are no sirens at sea.

Triumph Over Life

Life challenges us all each day
to wrestle it down to the ground
to tame it and teach it to play
or have it subdued and rope bound

Either way life will often sting
take us to places we should not go
but there is comfort, you should know
just remind yourself of one thing:

There is no place but at the top
no reason you should ever stop
be unyielding in your pursuit
harvest what you’ve earned of life’s fruit		Be satisfied with who you are
take pride that you have come this far
Do not bear this burden alone
even stumbled steps are milestones
(choose your stanza)

and in doing so you’ll understand
your happiness is at hand.

Self Esteem
Self Compassion

House of God

There in the trees on top of the hill
a house rises seemingly from nowhere
spared the rod of modern architectural will
it reaches above the canopy in despair
careful not to touch the world that consumes it
a moonlit tragedy glowing like nightmares

Fear inspired its construction in the past
that persecution was drawing near
reared from contradictions growing fast
with a world that was as yet unclear.
Careers were founded on these false ideals
sealed by paying patrons kneeled before them through the years.

Time only made the palace stronger
atop that mountain of political power it climbed
anytime someone hinted their use existed no longer
they changed the doctrine to make the act a crime.
Mimed notions of intent to seize control
resoled as demonic influence against the sublime

Decay has worked its way through the house now
twisting beams as it twisted minds in its day
weighed down by the lies and horrors they allow
to save face and self and spite those in the way.
Pray you never enter the like of these homes
catacombs for the ideas and dreams they slay

[Remorse in Marble]

A grave assumes that you were never ready
                                    for their loss

Concedes that you are not now, nor never will be willing
                                    to let go

But go they must to the annals of memory to suffer
                                    the long death

Let us be brave in our ending for there are many chapters
                                     to be written

Evolution

[Camel]  God created man
                faith over reason
                speak to me about bringing evidence
                lies from corrupted mind
                overcoming truth in ending curiosity
                experience Speaks louder
[Lion]     Believe
                louder speaks experience
                curiosity ending in truth overcoming
                mind corrupted from lies
                evidence bringing about me to speak
                reason over faith
                man created god.

[Child]    Experience curiosity
                reason that by definition
                in truth
                thou art god.