Like squeezing and gripping

a handful of sand

Your love dropped through

the crevices unrhymed

 

Defining our feelings

with each orphaned word

Lost in the random

—abandon of time

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

Kneeling

in a confessional

of words

forgiveness wouldn’t come

Absolution

undefined

where beats

— the silent drum

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

Is the Oracle wise

the Buddha fat

or the Great

Niagara wet

Description wanes

where titan’s reign

as words are left

to falter

And blow upwind

against the grain

in messages

— sublime

 

(The New Room: December, 2024)

Pushing hard

against the words

the order

disarrayed

The ultimate guest

the consummate stranger

so close

— so far away

 

(The New Room: December, 2024)

Paying hard

the money short

pockets empty

time aborts

A pound of flesh

bills remain

invoice closing

—  sealed with pain

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

Hiding in

a shadow

 

The light

forever near

 

My world is

pothole bound

 

Restraining

hope with fear

 

Dirt roads

of my memory

 

Training wheels

unsure

 

Rolling forward

falling back

 

Beyond

— the lion’s roar

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)

If the past’s

not alive

The future

is dead

 

With memory

starving

Hope’s promise

unfed

 

What yesterday

gives us

Tomorrow

awaits

 

All hope

in the transfer

Of destiny’s

— fate

 

(The New Room: November, 2024)

Writing

with my head

but

not my heart

 

My spirit

an orphan

alone

— and apart

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)

Left

with nothing

but heartache

— we run from the pain

 

Left

with nothing

but promises

— the words in refrain

 

Left

with nothing

but yesterday

— tomorrow a lie

 

Left

with nothing

but memories

— a final goodbye

 

(The New Room: November, 2024)

Time …

the enigmatic

trap

 we’re all caught within

 

(The New Room: November, 2024)