Dream Rebirth

WORDS WERE MEANT FOR MEANING.
RHYMES ARE EMPTY WITHOUT THEM.
FIENDING FOR EMOTION
OUR HANDS REACHED OUT TO BIND THEM.
MINDFUL OF HER COUNTERPART
HER HEART HELD LOVE OPEN.
MAN UNJUST CAN ONLY JEST;
HIS HEART COULD NOT BE SPOKEN.
LONELY NIGHTS AND TENEMENT BLOCKS,
DIME BAGS BY THE MOONLIGHT.
"KISS ME BY THE MILKY WAY
AND CHASE AWAY THE FIREFLIES."
SEARCHING FOR A PURPOSE
HIS MIND FELL ON ADONIS.
FEARFUL OF HIS TRUE SELF,
HE LEFT HIS MIND IN NIRVANA.
BLINDED BY HER BEAUTY,
HER MIND SHOWN LIKE SOLARIS.
SHAKING LIKE WITHDRAWAL
TILL HER HANDS GROPED THROUGH DARKNESS.
SHE TORE THE BLINDERS FROM HIS EYES
EXPOSED HIM TO PERCEPTION.
SOLAR SCREAMS AND TORRID TEARS
CELESTIAL TORNADOS.
VEILS AND BONES ARE TORN ASUNDER,
LIKE MORPHEUS AND PHANTASOS.
CLASH OF MEANINGS IN THE MIND HAD
LEFT HIS BODY LIFELESS.
SOULS ASCEND ON LADDERS LAID BY LOVERS CHANCE ENCOUNTER.
SACRIFICIAL LIFE AND DEATH ARE ANYTHING BUT HOPELESS.
SEEDS ARE BORN FROM FOREST FIRES,
YES WE ARE ALL REDWOODS.
ETERNITY BEHOLDEN BY THE GROVE OF MIGHTY TITANS.
CHARRED REMAINS AND BURIAL MOUNDS,
SACRED BLOOD AFFLUENT.
WOMAN OF MY DREAMS YOU KILLED ME
AND CLARIFIED MY VISION.
WAKE ME WITH YOUR GENTLE RAYS
AND SEND ME THROUGH THIS LANDSCAPE
PLACE ME ON THE SHORES OF SLUMBER
AND LET IN THE TRUE LIFE
STANDING TALL BEFORE THE SEA
IMMERSE ME IN INFINITE.
SET SAIL BLOWN BY MY OWN VOLITION
WITH FUTURE’S NAME ON MY BREATH.

Anger Understanding and Sacrifice

Hopes and dreams are meant to last through many
Winters enraptured by black clouds and thunder-
Desert of emotions, everyday life, equipped with real vultures, cultural striptease of hope and empathy.
These games are not the same twice,
I cannot reascend the ladder and pretend to be surprised.
I will not sit back, pack the tray table, Aesop can take slow labels and shove em with Vonnegut's cats cradle.

Every breath is like a quickened step I
Hurry so hard it seems I tend to miss a couple of them-
Am I strong enough to edify this commonplace and human vision
My motivation given - the perfect love of the Master grinning.
I mold inequity to motivation,
Knowledge can illuminate ignorance of every type and variation.
I'm so sick of talk and consolation,
Get off my ass and add some cash and equity to this conversation.

Now this sacrifice is just a tiny
Bit of my soul I broke off and planted in a memory -
If that seed can only grow to beautiful monumental comedy that never alters
See my heart is planted here with a gaze that never falters.
I got a melody of life I follow,
The beat is syncopated - belated - insatiable, but never hollow.
Some acts in life we should never follow,
And others grow like evergreen forests and snow white swallows.

Potential Energy

I am a ten ton hammer poised to fall.
Force equals mass times acceleration due to gravity.
So, I am a ten ton force existing on the brink.
Potential energy existing within my spring like limbs,
My limber limbs lack luster, but are not lackluster.
My strength of body exists simply as an example for strength of mind.
A blueprint for the future set upon the foundation of the heretofore.
It’s pen inked with the solace of my spirit.
That tenuous force that guides the wayward
And brings remedy to the stricken and downtrodden.

So I am a ten ton force.
And I am driving piles into the swamp of self.
Pumping out water to make space for the edification
Of this human race.
It all starts within myself.
So I take this hammer and raise it up to the heavans.
With one switch of the mind,
I bring it crashing down—
Forcing order on entropy.
Divinity and the other half,
And building calluses from my bloodied hands.
Can’t nobody tell me what a dollars worth,
I know the exact amount of blood and sweat
It takes to dig a ditch with a pickaxe.
And though I know the flow of blood slows,
Coagulates and grows into scabs that show
The world for what it truly is,
I have no fear that fear can disappear,
And love can clear the clouds of confusion.
Replacing them with that clear vision—
I am a ten ton force
And can’t no man keep me down,
But the one standing before you.

Whats worst?
To be held down,
Or to have never tried to rise?
To have stared at the dirt ones whole life?
Or to have gazed at the skies?
I am not even a broken winged bird,
I am a groveling dung beetle,
Making my life on the refuse and waste of others,
On the land that no other wanted.
I welcome constraints and limitations,
Confusions and upheaval.
Give me pain and frustrations,
Anger and tears.
Lord knows if I didn’t have them,
I’d have made them on my own.
Give me the higher path,
Or give me a mountain and a walking stick.
Show me the highest mountain peak,
And it will be my next step.

These lines are not enough
To sacrifice for love.
This language is not enough
To sacrifice for love.
There is not enough breath in my lungs,
Nor Blood in my veins,
To sacrifice for my love.
And if I sundered every part of my body,
Atom by atom.
Molecule by molecule.
That pain would not be enough of a sacrifice for my love.
Since my death cannot be a sacrifice to thee,
I offer thee my life, my dance, my laughter, my hope and my joy
As a sacrifice to thee my love.
That I may drive piles into this last,
Until all that exists,
Is this ten ton hammer,
And these two callused hands,
Service in sacrifice,
A potentiality of love.
And nothing more.

I am a ten ton hammer,
But it takes a ten ton soul
To set me free.

You are what you think

Your worths existent
But your ignorance is insistent
Why cant you see the golden man?
That mirror, did you miss it?

In the land of the thoughtless
Your mind shows true
Your words a lighthouse
With an oil slick type view.

A diamond in the rough
It cuts rough apart.
Bring light to the world
With a brilliant heart.

Rat Race

(They say)
Theres a right way and a wrong way,
And everything between's the wrong way.
So when I walk down skid row,
It's like damn, they hadda took the wrong road.
(They say)
All things happen for a reason,
And years are measured by the seasons.
But if I want forever summer,
I've got to chase it like a runner.
(They say)
Its a 7 step plan,
Go to school, study hard and work for the man,
Then when you get fired-
Sell some drugs, buy a yacht and end up retired.

They say I'm on track, to finish this race
But when I move forward all I feel is two faced
Say what you wanna say, go bury my name
Cause in the end its still just a rat race.

I'm running so fast, but still in last place
Cause the truth is when I'm running, I'm running in place
So lets just save face, and enjoy the view,
Cause in the end its still just a rat race.

Switch the cardinal directions
And now the politicians are never gonna be mentioned
And the Police scared of us
And the US is a sacred land of trust for each one of us.
(Damn)
I want more than just discretion
This god damn fence is an abomination to ever good intention
Do unto others as you would have done unto you
So spread the truth that we just want to obscure the truth.
(Yep)
It seems I'm a hypocrite as well
(No really?)
Don't seem surprised, these words are lies I use to get through to you
So i'll just burn a few
Before I get up build a new world here in front of you

They say I'm on track, to finish this race
But when I move forward all I feel is two faced
Say what you wanna say, go bury my name
Cause in the end its still just a rat race.

I'm running so fast, but still in last place
Cause the truth is I'm always running in place
So lets just save face, and call it what it is,
Cause in the end its still just a rat race.

I should end this all with treason
This shits delirious and furious without a rhyme or reason
Or maybe end it with a dove
A sign of peace to everybody trying to rise above
(Yeah thats pretty)
This is a world of sacrifice
Please pack your tray tables and turn off that device
Please lie awake and ponder this advice
Give it all to love and do it again not twice but thrice.
(Yes!)
And do it for your friends, for your mothers and your fathers
And those in the shallow end.
Pull em to the deeper,
Cause when you learn to swim, this world is a lot sweeter

They say I'm on track, to finish this race
But when I move forward all I feel is two faced
Say what you wanna say, go bury my name
Cause in the end its still just a rat race.

I'm running so fast, but still in last place
Cause the truth is when I'm running, I'm running in place
So lets just save face, and enjoy the view,
Cause in the end its still just a rat race.

Happy Birthday Alex.

I thought to write some lines
of the beauty of your life:
of sunsets drawn with amber suns
and night skies filled with gold.
of sacrifice for loved ones
and a gentle helping hand
of virtues, truth and destiny
Of metaphors of falling sand.
I thought I'd fill some pages
from my hearts pen,
But when I went to ink the paper
The words came out pretend.
So should I struggle for a lifetime
To express my gratitude,
I'd fail to write the many ways
Your friendship has made me new.
Your joy, your hope, your candor,
Your thirst for living life,
Jubilation that you embody
Is echoed in my life.
So as you climb mountains
And leap and learn to fly
Take a look back at your friends,
Smile, and fly on by.

Another Day

Time is not the ceilings fortress blocking us from fancied flying
Feeling blue, the summer sun is purple through those plastic shades
Skulduggery searching for dinosaur bones then
Throw away the paper landscape soiled by written thoughts

Flounder - in the intercourse when words combine
Writing - but sometimes words cant do it justice
So lets throw it all away and paint a rainbow with my tears
Lets throw it all away and let this sunset disappear

Water drops like azure drakes float through my weary mind
they shimmer frozen solid under the lake house
From the past I conjure lackluster and shine it into gold
Its true that origami lives always unfold

Falling - see this heart is slipping down my sleeve
Painting - myself into a corner once again
Lets scream for joy and stamp through with our muddy feet
Lets kiss the world and give a toast to our defeat.

Lets celebrate the past.
Lets celebrate the past.
Let our honeyed amber eyes gaze to distant lands
And hold the past at a distant arms reach
Lets kiss the moon and send it on its way.
I think its time we saw another day.