Swimming in gasoline sounds dangerous So why do we insist on doing it every day? Take off our clothes, wet our bare ankles And then dip all in as if we couldn’t be harmed Swimming and swimming with hearts half empty Gazing hopefully at those licking the match Until the one true hero appears… Continue reading Swimming in Gasoline
How little time one has to appreciate and observe the beauty Living invisibly in the days he allows to pass On the wings of small beetles are carried the grains of hopeless thought That soon will come the time when the desire can be sought To explore the shadow under the mighty oak tree And… Continue reading Gates of Soil
A picture of a bride in a bright white dress Dark red wine spilled all over her chest Pants all gone collapsed on a couch across the room A portrait covered in vomit of the loving groom In his dirty underwear he spends all day While she works two jobs for the rent they… Continue reading Loser Husband
Why worry when the liquor tastes so good And the fruit can be eaten from someone else’s labor Why not feel comfortable in your neighbor’s bed When the atomic rain feels a million miles away Why not eat the apple that’s forbidden And trade it in like a used car Trade it in for… Continue reading Young Hearts
Knowledge is the soil in which tomorrow can be born The food of a nation breathing clean air A garden of roses, skin not immune to the thorns But sturdy enough to not succumb to the scare Awareness and will must be built and not bought From words that are music to the hungry… Continue reading Knowledge
From the black clouds a single drop falls Drop, Drop, Drop It flies through the air like a baron of the skies Drop, Drop, Drop Down on the street my body still stands Frozen in time like a colorless glare And on that body the single drop lands Like a prophet from a heavenly stare … Continue reading A Drop
When souls struggle with meaning and fail to find joy They seek their purpose in attempts to destroy To rip through the darkness with a fist full of color A menacing rainbow of confused confession Wondering who arranged the clouds in such order That robs the sunrays of the chance to deploy It’s like a… Continue reading Destroy
It was just another unfulfilling autumn evening as John was lighting a cigarette under the flickering porch light. It was his son’s birthday and the leaves couldn’t have been losing their green quicker. John took a deep breath, inhaling the ashes, and peeked inside through the dusty window. He should have fixed the crack weeks… Continue reading Hereditary
A leaf hangs alone from the tree By the noose of its own inability Blaming the tree for a grip that’s too tight Or the wind that won’t come and allow the flight Fault can be found anywhere but the mirror And try for a second to imagine the horror That will come once the leaf… Continue reading A Leaf
Futuristic mannequins riding wingless butterflies Stainless steel sliding against soft velvet skin On their voyage to the moon and back Minds set bright and colorful, immortal in their sin More crystals than a desert flooded with sand Grain after grain, feeding the curiosity Guilt hidden behind vintage smiles and sunglasses Guided on the trail… Continue reading Escape
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