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Change is the life that surrounds me
All comfort stripped away
Real thorns
Real cages
Real drastic
Fit you into straits
Brush me feathers tied to bruise
Breath fog horns in my ear
Enshroud me in a cloud
Safe, cotton wool, embalm, for ever,
Real drastic
Pinch her bum and start a conversation
Or a slap fool for love
Torque it up and skip the beat
Skip here, into my arms, my dear,
Feel change
Breed change
Real drastic
Crash through,
Glass,
Blood splash,
Dash,
Fashion interrupted intersection
Brief.
Fast time cars whine
Light time,
Introspection averted
Cool breeze
Real drastic.
Shed a layer,
Then say your prayer,
The merry go round spins faster
Speed junkie
Love strains to contain
Real drastic
Sheared waves;
Brain dead,
Real life,
Naked eye trivia
Tigers claws
Blood gore,
Real drastic
Pale blue shimmers,
Matrix layers
Beat description
Light white:
Hot
Real drastic.
Paper slips
Catch a future fast
Animal easy
Hard on watch
Real drastic.
Heal, deal, feel, seal: The end….
Let compassion burst upon our hearts
To shatter the hard formed stone of our indifference,
And wisdom be awakened in our minds:
These two pillars will sustain us through life’s trials.
The past was all futility, to stem with sand confusion’s tide,
A life of rising discontent, with dull pleasure’s limit
reached,
Wild plans formed, each certain of their winning,
But doomed from their beginning.
Led darkly down an aimless path,
No different from its end or any point between,
Chaos my demented guide,
Tormented by the knowing I should know.
To set high goals courts failure
And with each expectation disappointment,
Abandon them;
Let others judge the value of our life.
If ego masks the blemishes I cannot face,
I will strut in glorious stupidity,
Ridiculing others whilst they pity me,
Waste time in preening and the search for fault.
And contort myself to some desired image:
A God of War, impregnable to all challenge,
Until a victor rises, wiser, stronger,
From whom I would run or cower.
As night will turn to day this will occur,
The time uncertain but the prospect sure,
Or perhaps a God of love:
Irresistible, and yet resisted!
And what if we seek
To climb upon the backs of other’s toil?
Compete to win an irresistible prize.
Which must differ for each one of us.
For only in its perfection
Could we commit those worthless acts we justify.
Yet as we climb, draw near the prize, we see the lustre faded,
And so we must another prize seek out.
Yet should we cast the net of love around us,
Would not our own lives be enriched,
Our suffering diminished, wisdom come with ease, as if fore
learned?
Contentment lap warmly at our feet.
No stranger feel our cold indifference,
And anger be short lived, a passing cloud, like other cruel
emotions,
We will dream of other’s happiness
As if it were our own, or our most loved.
I will love this Earth,
Her kindness showered upon me,
Deserved or not,
For in her heart no miser dwells.
This bounty so few enjoy, for they see not its purity,
But some mirage of their own desires,
And so unsated they remain, whilst I and others sit content,
Filled beyond all measure from the same cup.
Our soul lies outside emotion and transient desire,
It is our higher path, our only friend in our aloneness,
The voice which questions and illuminates delusion,
The truth that we would own should strength deliver us.
So we will recognize the journey’s worth,
This very pain is our reward for knowledge now ingrained,
We cannot lose what cost so much to win,
For in every pain is joy brought near.
Salvation lies, through our soul’s ceaseless quest,
In lessons we must one day hear,
Even at our last breath,
It is enough: not too late!
Better we should know than die in ignorance,
For with this knowledge death’s lonely journey
Becomes a peaceful drift to our obscurity,
Don’t trouble to resolve the riddle of our death.
We have enough in this life
Without the burden of revealing what certainty awaits us in our
next,
A child will wake refreshed with all it needs to face the day,
Trust likewise in our next being.
Smoke drifts on the morning air;
The ash pause from falling
As your coffin lowered in the hard, cold soil,
They cover you,
The unkempt grass and wild flowers:
Sorry babe, they never brighted up the place.
For a trip the toke lights up your face,
Against the dark backdrop of the Frangipani tree,
Babe, the flame won’t never cauterize your feelings:
Life passed by in smoke hazed,
Chokin, yeller breath and rotting teeth -
You ever kiss your man when like that?
Babe, I don’t recall a lidded look
And half hid smile that's his for keeps.
Just you hunched over the mile long drag:
Cheeks hollowed, features wrinkled –
Aged in the time it takes from light to stub.
Pull another from the packet babe:
The crumpled Magic Box,
With the warning you don’t take no care of -
Fag shortens by the death wish drag,
For that less than second hit.
Another stagnant, empty pause,
Nothing beating to convince me there’s life:
You turned inward,
The flowed over ash tray
The discarded butts of loves, dreams, and endings.
Wasted years: dragging on the sponge tipped stick,
The fool you look as the tip sparks a red,
When it should be you burned with indignation,
At least you’d be something then,
And I could speak of you with pride come easy:
But fight spilled out of you with the falling ash.
Less years of this don’t seem so bad right now,
But what if you had everything to live for?
But you never could, with the choices you always makin;
The match sticks coiled and twisted -
The turns you made to ‘scape yourself.
Was death revenge upon yourself?
Or on your unborn child who had to suck it in,
If they wanted to. Or not?
Cigarette, she suck on you like cock:
But there’s no sweet juice to lick from lips,
Cigarette, strewn bodies in a Slavic grave:
You don’t care, but think of alls of us that do!
Cigarette, broken: dried flakes the leaves of your unlit lives:
The years that didn’t happen cos you died too soon,
Cigarette, companion to my thoughts:
Sometime distraction - sometimes muse.
Seem you primping like you wanna look good,
Though how anyone look cool
With a white stick on fire pokin out their mouth:
I guess I'll never know.