Mine Eyes/ My Tears

Mine Eyes

Flickering lights

First color and white with shifting colors

Then a quick flash of darkness

But then everything returns 

Gliding on ice

My Tears

Minds are released

Salt pierces the wound

Fears become courage

The children gather like there is candy to be served to them

Yet only one at a time may receive the reward for journeying this far

Someone needs to count them as they leave

Each child exits

Running through the track to their destiny

Right before they disappear into the sun a man watches them

He reads children to find their behavior

There is always a reason why they were so quick to leave with their candy

Nonetheless he tallies each kid

Then in the forever night he will give every child back

Hugging every mark

Thank You

Raise a head

Look to the mirror

Bare naked

Oh the self worth is very dismal

It's never fair

Isn't ever

Small like a shell from a tiny snail

As useful as clothing for dead animals

Or pointless stacks of paper that would've saved a tree instead of an intention to save a soul

Don't forget the few words written or the feeling of the broken heart

In the end

the lungs still rise and fall

Maybe even bigger than before

In fact so much bigger that the heart painfully rests on the bones of the rib cage

Out & Vulnerable 

The Land of Dance

Spinning & spinning

The room turns but you remain still

Your body pulled close to the man you love

He leads you as he sings of love

Your eyes cannot leave his gaze

Your ears listen to every word he says 

I love you

The spinning world never stops

He turns and pulls you around but forever holds to you

There is a tug at you waist to come closer

His lips finally interlocking with yours forcing your eyes shut

Turning in circles

At no time dizzy

You only wish to stay in this spinning world

There is clearly nothing better than this

THAT'S RIGHT

Dirty wax candles drip into a jar full of rocks

Pearl rocks spattered with dark wax streaks

A child eats candy

colorful sugar balls stain his tongue

Pretty woman putting too much lipstick on just to leave a mark on his skin

Streaks Stains Marks

The black door is open with an invitation to enter

There's a lowly monster with grey streaked hair

A tongue stained purple

And bright red marks from the sun's kiss on its skin

To bad pretty views

Hollow Hearts & Weeds

A hedge maze in the darkness of night

This makes it harder to find one's way

Retracing steps

You feel you have returned to the stop you were at two hours ago

In resting a dandelion grows in the hedge that stands in your way

Defeat is dangerous

There is nothing in this maze

Hollow pathways crossed over a thousand times

Like the maze your heart becomes hollow

Empty space

Seeming so simple

Let the hedges take your body

Become one with the ground 

Lay with the dandelion 

You finally found the way out

Why

Blank eyes

Blank face

Blank mind

The heart yearns but no satisfaction

The body cries but no comfort

The soul ripped in pieces but no stitches

The aching wounds of the soul kill all other emotions

Now the heart and body are torn in half

but there's no glue

Stares close and the soul talks  

All that is voiced in the silence is why

why why why

Living Words

Diary filled with words pictures and letters

So many pages keeping the life of men

Words are made of feelings and experiences

Those simple sentences provide breath to the dead

Bring the dead back to life

Let them break the earth and become zombies

Old dirty decayed human beings

Those words bring people back to the earth

Giving painful birth to new ideas

Their souls walk within the brains of those who read

Words trap the soul

Forever entangled with fragile paper

Souls do not have a human owner

They belong to the pictures letters and words

The worth of words