Wednesday, June 8, 2011

The Fiddler's Tune

I'm not sure how I want to end this poem yet, but here is what I have so far.

Day in
and day out
I just want to
scream.
Because everyday
I think the same goddamn things,

but my brain won't keep quiet
although I try to move on
and every night I see a light
that makes me think
of a played out scene.

What could I have done different?
Was it something I said?
For every action there are a thousand worlds:
is it always the same in the end?

I worry until I hurl
and crawl up into a ball.
Wishing, praying that it didn't all go wrong.
That somehow and someway
I didn't always dance to the same tune.
That the fiddler would stop
and pick something new.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Sparrow

Outside the window
where last we sat

lies the rotting
corpse of the sparrow

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Butterflies

This is my first "love" poem. :D As always constructive criticism is welcome.

Butterflies

There are butterfly's
inside of me.
Their beating wings
a tsunami in my chest.

This is what happens to watermelon seeds
swallowed as a child. They cocoon
and grow.

To be awakened from their long slumber
by your smile.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Empty.

Empty.
I sit with you
on this worn down couch
that has become our pew.

Vile venom and vitriol
from our mouths we spew
feeding the fires in my belly
my hatred of you.

Like falcons locked in coitus
we plummet
aching---yearning
for the ground below us.

In the dying light,
of our dying day
the rooster crows.

Zen

The sound of the pen

  as it scratches against the page
                 is like the rush and roar of the river

    when I need
to pee

Monsters

As I breath the summer air.
A thought, it comes to me.
Of the burden that I bear
and all I've come to be.

A greater monster you'll never find;
I torture and kill them here.
One day they'll come with iron to bind
their eyes alit with fear.

That day you'll open your eyes; awake
to all that you have done.
On the stand you'll squirm and shake
knowing that I have won

and when they lock you away in that padded cell;
I'll cackle and laugh triumphantly to know that you're in hell.

C8H10N4O2


Savior of my soul
in darkness you bring bright light
caffeine I am yours.