This Over That

 

Why do I

post here

let me count

the ways …

 

Saying

quiet parts

out loud

other sounds betray

 

Why this forum

over that

which one

best defines

 

What I truly

want to say

mazing through

— the rhyme

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2026)

 

Fruition The Magic

 

The key 

to the puzzle

 that last

final piece

Assumptions

misplaced

with the process

in play

 

The whole

always greater

than the sum

of its parts

Fruition

the magic

with completion’s

— foray

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2026)

 

 

In Love With The Moment

 

Being brave

not about

being different

Or being

indifferent

— but being yourself

 

Being yourself

 in love

with the moment

Burning the candle

whose flame

— in indwelt

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2026)

 

 

Still She Whispers

 

How do you plan

to feed your Muse

with silence

or acclaim

 

Do you stay open

to what she brings

or muted

with disdain

 

Still she whispers

in your ear

in darkness

and in light

 

A lifeline thrown

from deep within

ignored

— to roam the night

 

(The New Room: February, 2026)

 

 

Piercing The Veil

 

The point of your spear

finds the darkest heart

To kill and impugn

— where depravity starts

 

(The New Room: March, 2026)

 

 

Fallow Dreams

 

Wanting so bad

to be good

In virtue

my faults understood

Each choice I now make

forgives a mistake

Displacing the worm

— from the wood

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2026)

 

 

 

Your Choice

 

Do your doubts

destroy

your dreams

 

Do your dreams

destroy

your doubts

 

Your choice

on whom

to blame

 

Your choice

to scream

— or tout

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2026)

 

 

 

Playing footsie

with the past

my toes became

entangled

With every fawned

and misplaced

step

— my indecision walked

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

You can wash off

your fingers

but never the print

You can polish

an apple

but the worm still within

You can take out

the trash

but the smell’s in the air

You can falsely

deny

— but the memory’s still there

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2026)

 

We die

but once

while living

through a horror

a thousand times

 

We die

but once

ignoring

what our freedom

most defines

 

All life’s

a choice

our future claimed

when dealt  

at our behest

 

Another

chance

to beat the dealer

the trump card

— in our vests

 

(Septa R5: March, 2026)

 

 

The Winter

of my

discontent

Embryo

of my

 soul’s intent

 Summer

calling

deep within

Hope

to answer

 on the wind

Dove’s

releasing

peace in flight

Angel’s

harping

— pure delight

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2026)

In two rooms

at opposite ends

of today

the devil pays my rent

 

Forcing me to

finally choose

but one

debauchery

— or repent

 

I partied in one

and wrote in the other

as

distance

protected

the lie

 

A dualist slave

in the paradox

of hell

a prodigal

— whose well had run dry

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2026)

 

The dream

taken seriously

but never myself

Whose course

is replotted

as ice starts to melt

 

Life an

eternal

shipwreck of hope

But lifeboats

sit waiting

— where wishes refloat

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2026)

The Choice

 

Prescience an Angel

that rides on the storm

To bring us good tidings

or danger to warn

 

Spreading its wings

that determine our fate

The choice to jump on

— better early than late

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2026)

 

Time Unwound

 

Looking ahead

today is ignored

Tomorrow unpromised

this moment secure

 

All joy in returning

where riches surround

To presence surrendered

— where time is unwound

 

(The New Room: February, 2026)

 

Now & Forever

 

I married

character

You married

cheese

I vowed

for life

Your words

to tease

 

I married

beauty

You married

lust

I am

still married

Yours

— is a bust

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2026)

 

First

Last

And Always

— Have Something To Say

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2026)