Sunday, July 26, 2009

Kaleidoscope

This.... is not.... a figure of speech...
What... was once born... shall never be free...
In the flame that dances... the air burns...
Just like diamonds... burning into nothing...
Embers float into the night sky...
Leaving the ash...to grow old...
I waited a long... long... time...
But the dust... did not turn to gold...
And when i tried to walk away...
The sand would not let me be...
It followed me home... became my family...

If i could write a song...
It would be a hundred miles long...
But would you listen... and not walk away...
Remain where you belong?
The colors dance and change shape...
We become... what we want to make...
So see through me... as i look through you...
Disappear in the blink of an eye... and i will too...
Turn it over... inside out...
And we can start over... with what we lacked...
They're just stones ... and nothing more...
We can always comeback... comeback...

Saturday, July 25, 2009

One

Reverend....Reverend why do you pray?
Can your God not hear your heart beat...
Or is your God so far away?
Why does He/She need all this money...
Gold and silver, diamonds and rubies?

On your knees with folded hands
Is that what He/She intended when he created your feet
So that you may bend and never stand
And how could i forget the blood
Not your own...No...never your own
But of the innocent unknowns

Reverend...Reverend why do you pray?
Are you lost confused or just dazed?
Maybe one day you will see
That you are no different than me
There is no "your god" or "mine"
There is just Love...Of that which is divine

Differences will cease to exist...
When the deeds have all been seen and done...
Then you will see with the heart and not the eyes...
...that there was only One...
...Only One...
Hang us until we breathe no more
Slit our wrists till we bleed no more
Oh crush this flesh and bury it six feet below
But the truth shall still remain...

Look into our eyes and lie your heart out
Twist and turn the laws as you wish
Oh turn us down and turn away
But the truth shall still remain...

Gag our mouths and suffocate us
Choke us now or drown us
Oh silence these voices till none remain
But the truth shall still remain...

Never before and never again
Will you find ones like us again
You will die and wither away
But the truth shall still remain...

We are not Martyrs...
We are not Poets...
We are not Soldiers...
We are Lovers...
We shall not burn out...
We shall not burn away...
Our Love is our Truth...
And the truth shall forever remain.

Evolution

Moving from one second to the next
Forever forgetting the smile that we held
Have we become so cold and bitter
Never stopping to lend a hand

Where once were peace and love
Now reside hatred and war
Where once grew lemon trees
Now lays a stone throne ruled by hypocrites

All the noise and all the sound
Drowning out the songs and laughs
Lost within a forest of bricks
Under a blue sky still young

Blue sky...blue sky...
Forever watching...
Gray clouds...
Forever crying...

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Random stuff at a random time

Turmoil...turmoil...within the storm...
In the rain that pours, I still find your tears...
Never before were you so fragile...
And never again will you be so dear...
As my grandfather's clock ticks alone tonight...
The darkness becomes hard to bear...
But think again of days to come...
And the future begins to be more near...
Don't be so hasty, don't jump ahead...
For emotions are not what they appear...
Wipe the mask away forever...
And then Love will be so clear.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Raven Blues

Oh raven of the summer sky, why do you wear a shiny black coat?
To mark the death of a forgotten soul or to wander through the night alone?
While the swallows sing and the little ones chirp
You live in anger against this wicked world
For once just let them know how you feel
Sing along with the songbird if the songs are too deep
For I long to know what is it that you lack
A wanderer or a messenger, all dressed in black.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Oh... So that was love!

Is love to be felt or to be lived?

I have spent time in the darkness of my room...and in the darkness of the night sky pondering about things that i have no answers to... not that i need an answer to everything. Things that i have no explanation to. Things that i have no experience of. Sometimes i think of death... sometimes i think of life... at other times i wonder why we fight... and then i stop to think why we love?

What is love? I hate the dictionary explanation involving chemicals and brains... its not a beautiful enough explanation to a question that is so vague. A friend once said to me "I really wanna fall in love...but i don't think I'm even close. Love is so idealistic.".... to which i smiled and said "i don't think anyone in the history of mankind ever knew when they were 'close' to falling in love."

I think infatuation is idealistic. I think compromise i realistic... both of which people often mistake for love. I think love is the balance. These are not answers... these are just my opinions. Sometimes i think love is the state of overwhelming pleasure... and sometimes i think love is the state where you don't feel anything at all. The feeling of complete emptiness.... or the feeling of complete fullness. Does love encompass everything or is it devoid of everything? Is love the color that stands out...or the color that blends in?

Questions that only bring more questions... along with some rhetorical answers which appear to be attempts at avoidance rather than answers.

As i sit in the brightness of my room i ask the air around me....
Is love to be written about or left as thoughts in the mind?
Is love to be dissected and explained or to be left as the question that gives purpose?
Is love to be felt or to be lived?

... i am still waiting to find out... hopefully i won't look back one day and say "oh...so that was love."

Friday, July 3, 2009

Tonight i fear only one fear...
The fear of being forgotten...
Lost within the pages like a dead rose petal...
Fading into the wind without a trace of the essence...

Tonight i think of leaving behind footsteps in stone...
But the rain reminds me...
Even stones erode...

I will be forgotten....so will you...
Just like the one we don't remember now...
No picture...no story...
No statues...no glory...
Forgotten....Forever...