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)

“Poke the bear

you get the claws

Chase the shark

you get the jaws”

 

With each lie

foundations crack

A friend once hurt

your soul left wracked

 

Timeless rules

 do still apply

Where you can run

but never hide

 

 Truth outdates

the oldest Sage

With us its servant

— time its slave

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

Verse sublimation

skipping the will

Centering the message

critics are chilled

 

Listening to silence

voices dethroned

Freeing the moment

— tomorrow on loan  

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

Art nothing more

than an act of creation

 

Becoming Divine

every new inspiration

 

Tunnels of wonder

your fortune to mine

 

Time as the drill bit

— transcendence sublime

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

Only through the act

of self-reflection

— is the Creator truly known

 

(1^st Book Of Prayers: January, 2000)

In youth

the words were

loaned to me

from others

as their source

 

Till that day

one refused

to leave

and camped

on my front porch

 

It said …

“I have

a lot of friends

no need

to be

alone”

 

And one

by one

they climbed

my steps

to stay

— and call me home

 

(The New Room: August, 2024)

 

 

Verbal Foundlings

 

Free or blank

tomato

tomatto

 

Without rhyme’s link

there’s no

bravado

 

The verse left orphaned

all kinship

spurned

 

As unconnected

words crash

— and burn

 

(The New Room: July, 2024)

 

 

Death Grip

 

The tighter

we hold on

The faster

— it slips away

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)

 

 

Now Is Now

 

Freedom in the moment

the past is the past

Throwing off chains

— tomorrow recast

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)

 

 

Reaching Back

 

Closer in the distance

than what endears my touch

I focus on your memory

— reclaimed in fated lust

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)