Trouble melts

in the fire of emergency

all reasons in ashes

—the moment ablaze

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)

In most things a fledgling

to some degree

A novice at love

and what’s not to be

Indentured forever

beyond my leave

And only an expert

—at being me

 

(The New Room: June, 2021)

Those lies became our only truth,

while tearing us apart

Each vow an empty promise made

—to drain our bleeding hearts

 

(Deamsleep: June, 2021)

Speaking your mind

is dangerous

 

Speaking truth

—the deadliest thing of all

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

 

Blood stains in my memory,

clotting in my heart

 

Arteries of pain and loss

—hemorrhaging the dark

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

I stumbled through each morning,

it was all about today

Dissolute and scorning,

of all that passed away

Wandering and faint of heart,

old promises unsworn

Living once then living twice

—the moment was reborn

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

Alone in the desert…

nothingness shouts in your ear

Where space like a giant megaphone of silence

calls to what is forever lost

Sirens of endless quartz in the wind

carrying the emptiness far

Sirens of endless quartz in the wind

—burying all you believe

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

Night often falls

with the matter unsettled

 

The pudding unstirred

—as choices recant

 

(Amtrak R5: June, 2021)

We have few ways left

to assuage our guilt

 

Escape less an option

—new windmills to tilt

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)

Altering the future

confirms your existence

 

In for a penny

—out for a pound

 

(Amtrak R5: June, 2021)