This will be a weekly recurring series featuring 5 poems all written within the same calendar year. They capture a sense of what my life and my mind were like at a certain age. It also will show the evolution of my life, mind, and writing style. This is the earliest year. 1996. I graduated from high school and was 18 years old.
A Perfect World
Open up your heart and come on and open up your mind,
to a place where punishment helps to see the light and leave the bad behind.
Look to the sun warm and true in heaven and you,
in a place where starvation does not exist, endless supplies of food.
Second and third chances are not needed, it’s done right the first time.
Reach out your hand, I can take you there.
Open your heart and free your mind.
You will find it’s easier than you think, to live in a perfect world.
Long walks in the park, because Mother Nature never grows old.
Be yourself and try your best, you and I have an equal chance to live.
Feel safe on the street at night, crime does not exist,
it’s not abolished or extinct, there’s just no reason to hate.
Take the one you love and look deep into their eyes.
See that violent storm of yours now ready to subside.
As the clouds part and the sun shines down,
then we’ll see the dawning of a perfect world.
No need to hurry, time is on your side.
A piece of the pie for all to share,
success is all around us to envision everywhere.
Throw away the keys, chains and locks are outside on a bike,
not protecting you from the rest of the world.
Wrap up your fears and ignorance a new day is arriving.
Take my hand, feel the love I have inside warm you to the core.
Peace, love, and happiness await in the perfect world if you’re strong enough to open the door.
Alternator
Don’t
believe what you see,
the smile you see masks the true emotion.
Was
given an inch, the miles now stretch out of sight.
How
is it so? Can this be reality?
Or
has this life been a long dead end from the start?
Words
and gestures can break the heart.
Why
must we hurt each other?
The thought of revenge to damage another.
Has
the sense of pain been stripped away?
Harmful desires fear not for
today.
I
feel it deep inside,
pain so intense makes my brain bleed in terror.
The
frustration warms my heart, emblazoned on my face.
What
keeps me going?
The
chance for a change, if you have the strength to control it.
Effortless
madness, stop the hurt, stop the pain,
right the wrongs driving you
insane.
Do
you feel it’s worth the risk of losing it all?
Tolerance
is not forever, two-way streets paved over and over,
no resemblance
to what once was there.
I
know, I know, I know it’s hard to give it up.
Open
doors and minds will make it easier,
don’t fear the change, embrace
the new possibilities.
One
body can produce only what the mind's eye can view.
These
mind games in the end hurt only one,
stress on the communication
wires.
Please,
please, please listen to my begging.
I
am teetering, on the edge, flames engulfing my heart’s bridge.
Believe,
believe, believe...
In Body In Spirit
Two stars collided, never crossing paths
Time together vivid, years of separation fade the sights
Known so well, unnamed angel on my shoulder
Taken away long before arriving, gone young never getting older
Chosen for a job, not of this world, an offer not to be refused
Life since left behind brown with time faded with light,
came to me in body in spirit, and hidden from my sight
Knowledge is slim, departure was grim, can you hear me tonight,
thoughts of you in fondness, frozen with delight
Couldn’t stay for a golden age, time does not wait,
brushes by you in an instant,
don’t bet on a future carved in water, not set in stone
Lifetimes separated, joined in an undying bond,
in the faces of others, no connection is made
Spirits live on forever
Time cut away, tomorrow was too far to reach for today
See you in thoughts and prayers, in all my years, and that which I don’t say
Would have been nice to have known you, but it was nice seeing you
We’ll be united when the clocks tick into silence,
where time is infinite, life is eternal
We spend the time visiting here, on route to the real beginning of life
Ageless and free, laid the groundwork for what I see
Gone away, never forgotten, nothing lasts forever
Live on spirit world, the time has yet to pass
Live on where it never rains, someday I’ll meet you there at last
Stage Fright At Night
Loneliness is my only companion,
in the darkness of night, it hurts the most,
wishing can do only so much to ease the pain.
As sleep sets in, sub-conscious images arrive as scheduled,
thoughts of the possibilities engulf this poor fool.
Turbulence is on the horizon, as I’m realizing dreams are not pleasant, they take me by force.
Witness to what my soul intends to hide from the eyes of my mind.
Ideas, comprehension, a freeway of images race in my head,
blurred, discolored, and misshapened instead.
Spiraled envisions dangle above my bed like a rope,
virtual reality, or life itself?
For the sake of insanity, my mind’s on the shelf,
helpless, suspended in time.
Strength I will save, my only defense,
trying to fight just doesn’t make sense.
Need to wait, pray for first light to rescue me from the hell put forth.
The bright sun breaks the chains of the world far away,
an obsession to find out what was there.
Don’t swallow your fear, they soon reappear, as the darkness lays claim to your soul.
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