It's Over

You stole the thunder out of my chest,
the lightning died from my heart,
the rain fell heavy, flooding my eyes.

There's a thing about dreams -
             even nightmares are
             in your wildest fantasies.

A Breath from Our Destiny

We're standing on the red brick road,
approximately ten to nowhere,
five from anywhere,
East form the far-reaching horizon,
West from any form of journey -

We are standing on a plane of reality,
knowing that with any step in any direction
we break the spell of momentary peace from
our
orenda.

We step towards each other,
East & West finally meeting,
a breath from our destiny,
the veins of the bricks finally pumping
as we take each other into our arms
and
-

Mad at Him

I was always mad at him,
not because he truly did anything wrong -
he was true to himself,
and I was mad he never noticed me -
until I realized
I
was blind,
and he had always seen me,
and he had fallen for me,
and I became mad,
for not
noticing him
noticing me.

Rambling from a Drunken Kid

It is within the mood of a single person that a whole group is affected -
a double ripple in a shallow mirror pond.

But, when the person retains a new emotion or idea,
that the new ripples of the pond reverberate against the old -
either canceling out all and creating mirror-like state

or creating a whole new kind of third ripple wave state,
that either makes the group reflect & rebound,
or the single person is thrust into a new being

that their whole being is created into a tertiary state -
that they have learned from the mirror and new state,
that the tertiary state has become a third person.

C. & A.

          It wasn't really in the way that they held each other 

when they laid together on the bed, 

          it wasn't the way that their hands 

seemed to find each other from across the table, 

          it was that their love was best felt throughout the air 

when they would look at each other, 

          either from across the table or from across the room, 

or even from across the planes of space & time - 

           their love could be felt by all...

Why Bears?

"Why bears?" she asked.

"Because they're big, and versatile. They live alone yet remain communal. They look after themselves, but will kill for their young. When you look into the eyes of a bear, you see not emptiness, but the souls of humans' brethren."

"But they can kill you!"

"Yes, but so can everything else - including humans, including yourself. It isn't right to worry about the banal trivialities of what can kill you. You're gonna go when you go - either at the hands of yourself or something else. So instead of worrying; go for a walk in the woods, dance in the rain, drink a little Jack, have amazing sweaty passionate sex. Do something with your life that even Mother Nature will be awed."

"Those hours of meditation and long walks really have helped, haven't they?"

"You have no idea..."

Ultimatum

It's not the gun pressed to our heads,
it's not the knife pressed into our throats,
it's the religious bickering, the classist rivalry,
it's the societal backlash, the fear and oppression.

Ferguson, Fairborn, New York City,
#BlackLivesMatter, Leelah Alcorn, Je Suis Charlie,
the bombing at the NAACP building in Colorado -
is this the 1960's? Have we lost our ever fucking minds?
People dying needlessly every day, over what?

Oh he looks dangerous, he's carrying a pop gun -
Oh he's a large black man, must be dangerous -
Oh they made fun of someone who doesn't exist, blow them up -

I'm fairly certain your saviors didn't die for you just so you
could hate on someone, discriminate against someone, kill someone.

It isn't that we're paranoid about someone killing us -
It isn't that we're afraid that someone will discriminate us -
It's not that we don't love that you hate us -
we're just tired of standing on our ancestors' graves,
hearing you shout poison, same poison from the past
just in all new slang.

So here's what we're going to do -
throw down our guns, throw away the hate, get rid of the pain,
feed, clothe, and shelter the homeless
take care of the sick and needy
make sure, no matter what "sin" they have, your neighbor is ok -
you weren't put on this earth to judge, so why are you -
the sooner we learn to love one another, the sooner the pain will end -

So what do you say, stop hating and just be friends?
No?
We'll exist without you.

Free

I felt your gun fire at me,
I felt the bullet hit my side,
I felt every lie hit my heart,
and none of your mess could stick.

I'm free from your pain,
I'm free from the tears,
I'm free from being torn to shreds,
now no longer wanting to die.

So what will happen with your love,
will it pass on to some other fool,
will you seal their fate with a kiss,
or will you realize that your through?

I'm standing free on top of a grave,
no longer my own,
now all of life feels completely real,
no longer dealing unforgiving flames.

I'm free from your sight,
free from any worry,
free from tears,
free from everything.

I'm free from you.