Competition …

what keeps us alive

Sharpening our edges

fueling our drive

 

Setting new benchmarks

pushing the bar

Forever defining

— just who we are

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

Are you the CEO

of your passion

the chief of your desires

 

Are you the captain

of your intention

the master of what inspires

 

Are you the owner

of your discovery

the clearing in the fog

 

Are you the light

of your reflection

— a servant before God

 

(The New Room: December, 2024)

As hedonists dally
to never explain
The greatest pleasure
— the absence of pain

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)

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)