The half cost of silence

is still overpriced

Each question unspoken

a chasm for vice

 

When blind to the moment

all vision exhausts

Each voice that is muted

— its own holocaust

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

Death sleeps in my bed

a lover untouched

Betrothed to my longing

a virgin as such

She waits for a signal

as time closes in

To open her wings

— and fly me to Him

 

(1^st Book Of Prayers: August, 2024)

The whistle blowing

 one last stop

 

Your ticket punched

— the gate unlocked

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

Many things

exist beyond

never

truly known

Every night

I die asleep

in dreams

left unatoned

 

Waking up

the weight’s still there

each breath

in labor bound

As voices live

within my ear

answers

— still unfound

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

Only heretics

will seek the truth

Against the grain

 they find the proof

 

Pandering Angels

wings on loan

In fear of shadows

— where answers roam

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

We build these

big houses

to live in

one room

We craft

lengthy speeches

words littered

and strewn

We travel

great distance

arriving back home

And tell

many secrets

the truth

plainly shown

We quarrel

and fight

with the outcome

the same

We craft

newer rules

for the oldest

of games

We live and

we die

as our

forefathers did

While changing

but nothing

entrapped

— in the grid

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

We become

what we see

We become

what we make

As damned

or forgiven

We reap

or forsake

 

Both scripture

and sermon

Prophetic

command

Until saved

by the Word

Our spirits

— disband

 

(1^st Book Of Prayers: August, 2024)

 

Does your secret life

define you

An image

not portrayed

Brush strokes darkened

pigments dyed

Your life force

oft betrayed  

 

Do the secrets

keep you prisoner

Are the bars

each choice you make

The key to freedom

lost and gone

Alone with your

— mistakes

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)

Don’t let anyone tell you

they can explain music

Inside the melody

— words fall short

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

Writing so many

hoping for one

Each step polemic

— path zero-sum

 

(Deamsleep: August, 2024)