Lost and Found

 
 
The words
and the phosphorescence
they tell me secret things
and so,
 
I sit night after night
with words for company
engulfing the self
in the power of the truth.
 
in front
of a screen
blurred with
salty tears
there are moving images
there are ones that are
still.
of beatings and water laced
with chemicals.
gasses that blind
and freedoms that are
lost.
the fan whirs silent,
and the leaves fall
while,
the city burns.
and [...]

Let Go

I’ll leave you to take what you want from it.
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A time for definitive answers
has come,
And you wait,
The lambs need a saviour.
 
While the shepherd slumbers,
The wolves
froth.
Carnal and bloody,
They wait,
and they watch.
 
Not all is lost.
A blessed flock is oft saved.
The Hands of God
open.
Like the lotus.
 
And we wait.
A change of path, a new direction
 
Oh Shepherd!
Set your lambs free.
 
(poem [...]

The Return

 
The Lost Words.
It has been so long
since words were
my friends.
Returning at times-
mostly,
inappropriate times.
Unrelenting.
Its barrage went
unanswered
in the rain,
in the shower,
on the highways with balmy nights
with smoke and stale, aged air, and melancholy
for company.
I pushed them away.
I wasn’t never good enough.
The man divided into two, the brocade wearing goddess.
he brought the words back. she brought my [...]