Poetry

I may not be the next Silverstein, Frost, or Poe, but sometimes I feel like giving rhymes a go.

Nights

I'd rather get the call that missed the mark than take the fall

I run from real rejection cause I'm a coward after all

and Irish violins would try to spark the sky from gray

but music's just reminding that you done and gone away

a dreamworld preservation where we danced in new york snow

I never even had you, so I can't ask "Where'd you go?"



Loki
Loki, Loki, how you lie, riding on your horse so high
You break good people, silver tongue, Living fiction just for fun
Manipulation: your finest game, You do it well in quest for fame
Yet vanity and charm can't shield the strength of opened eyes
Seeing now that deceptive self was always just your size
Parade about, oh wild king, with your crown of cigarettes
But take one moment, hear me out, I'll tell you what comes next
You fade away from history, your name crossed from the books
There's naught that we'll remember soon, not works, not voice, not looks
We marked you as your brother, true, the sigma of the six
And I won't lie, it bled my heart, to hear of all your tricks
But it'd be foolishly inept to think that only you
Could talk away the outside world and make lies into true
I'll tell myself it doesn't hurt and I don't miss you all the time
And soon enough the last of you will be captured in this rhyme
I'll only remember all the years when brothers was how we stood
And you can fib of who I am and parade yourself as good
It's not so different, how we cope, the ways in which we try
Except one is healing from a stab, the other's just a lie
So go on, O King, walk your streets, continue with your roam
I hope I'm wrong about your ending, you left defeated and alone.

Redemption

On New Years Eve

Appeared to me

A figure cloaked in red,

Aside from I

and falling snow

the city'd gone to bed

My drunken fingers

brandished out

a blad of fearful hate,

I lumbered forth

left foot got snagged

and betrayed by my gait

The agony 

of piercing steel 

felt fitting in my chest,

black envy blood

pooled upward to

soak peacoat and the rest

The crimson figure 

came and gently

clasped our hands as two,

the hood fell back

and ethereal glow

I saw that it was you

With wings that 

spanned the ocean

you blanketed me tight,

cause now I felt

a labored breath

death was there this night

I saw your 

knowing smile

and felt the calm just aft a storm,

then body did

give to and ashed

away became my form

A thousand days

a simple blink

my soul had never died,

compassion and

a singing friend

were always by my side

When I awake

a whole man new

a tavern filled my sight,

I saw that you

were clad in blue

to lead this dance tonight.

Suits

Sometimes it hurts in such a way

that burns away the skin

We lose our sense of love and good

to set free sex and sin

To relish the regret we'd feel

When setting day to night

the sickening twinge of pain and ill

when putting out my light

A corporate reign of cash and booze

I'd always swore to fight

My life as man in suits and hurt

is finally come to life. 

Moving On

This home may turn to ash and gray

my oceans lose their heart

the borders singed and peel away

the true love blown apart

But one last breath of hope could sprout a world of life and green

I'd rain my eyes and crush my back, blow soul to smithereens

So say a prayer

let loose a smile

cause soon it'd start to loom

it's width a nearly

half a mile

my grand a great balloon

A work be made to save the planet

the last of all that's grand

I'm not quite sure where it'll port

just come and take my hand

Into a sky

so high and true

above the clouds we roam

into a place

that's made of blue

a new land to call home.