You with eyes like sunrises of another world, the curve of its horizon on your lips and burning as its sky braves descent into night...
Tag: life
The Road to al-Qarafa
Lights in the trees guide me on that seem always to move away when I look at them Incandescence on the road to al-Qarafa...
Just Like You Said
I found the dry riverbed The one you told me about It was a scar on the face of beauty just like you said...
Honey Drunk
Honey drunk on the way this city moves lost in the morning crowd I wander....
Signs of Life
Listen to the stories that the walls tell in knocks and whispers out of hidden places telltale signs of life in the midst of a storm...
City Lights
City lights out to the freefall edge down to the blackwater and an eternity of silence wandering across the salted fields and planting seeds with high hopes for the harvest...
Along This River
Along this river I lost track of my reflection Amidst a thousand fragmented lives rolling out to sea The smiles that swept past before I could return them Tears that joined the current and were lost.
Summit
The hilltop lorded over him since the day he first drew breath Blackened peak defiant to cobbled streets below Eyes watching the spark of sun beyond the high ridge
Mutant
Treetops reach up out of scattered poisons on the forest floor Refuse and rejects left behind from a picnic in foreign sunlight Lying unclaimed on earth that cannot bear its weight
Shadow Above
As I move beneath the sun The shadows I cast choke life I cannot see
Darkening Day
When the shadow passed overhead, I despairedAlthough it wasn’t as painful as I’d hopedThere was no fanfare to announce its arrivalOnly a slow crawl toward emptiness as the fog grew thickNo warning sounded as the shades darkenedPassion fading to grey ink stains on a tattered membraneCracked shells of hatched memory scattered behind the curtainThis path …
ROE
How many times must I bleed across a pageBefore my veins run dry?Is there an end to these words I find so beautiful?‘You’re either with me or against me,’He said with absolutely no regard for human complexity.‘Follow me, or fade into oblivion.’A fate that is our birthright, should we follow him or not.Play the game, …
The River
The walls close in, distorted, Funneling me toward a door That separates my soul from the divine. Through the keyhole lies a world Whose edges fade into the space Between truth and lies. A river of grief flows among the brambles, Scorching its way across a blackened plain. It’s arms scrape meaning From dirt that …
