Lost

Find hope among the crested waves
                                                    laughing
searching for a shore they cannot see
but knowing…

Find courage among the giant beetles
                                                    raging
their short lives only deadlines
but fulfilled…

Find love among the sober stars
                                                    burning
giving of themselves unconditionally
but radiant…

Find purpose among the moments lived
                                                    spooling
the ebb and flow crashing, waning
but thriving…

Found

Hands formed for functions unrealized
                 land distressed on like minded wood planks
         an unwanted applause

                                  They approach this way

                 Emergency room eyes
                           Obsidian
                        shaped as sharp daggers
                 cutting the dark with fractures of light

                                  They approach this way

Sounds of protest drown in midnight fluids
                 like tree sap and pistons
                                  stretched thin
                 desperate for the floor

                                  They approach this way

I am static and stagnation
                 as broken as the horror before me
          crucified with thick nails of decisions undecided

                                  They approach.