DEADNESS

Sleep is miles away

Dreams and I like night and day

The lights go off and on

Darkness to dawn

Crawling lonesome hours

Echoing ghostly towers

Words are strangers

Emotional scavengers

When patience is rich

Wait behaves like a bitch

Nothing is “on the house”

Neither lies nor vows

Moments are empty rooms

Memories-cobweb looms

Loneliness-an archeological dream

Life is afloat beneath the stream

My guitar strums....

My guitar strums on strings of pain

Listen! To the melody of the rain

The heartbeats have fallen silent

A storm rises in my heart again.

Why does love always draw daggers

And take a spin-drive in a hearse?

Laughter evaporates into tears

No matter how well you rehearse!

The song resonates within

The four walls of a nostalgic inn

I sell the past as souvenir

Rolled up in a delicious muffin.

O! this bloodless wreckage!

The ache is the same at any age

Heavier perhaps with

A head full of baggage.

Would Mozart miss a chord

In an orchestra of discord?

My ballad’s been taken in by a twister

Hope you aren’t deaf my Lord? 

I Am

I am good only as a memory

Like-

An old faded photograph

A forgotten song

The leftover of a delicious romance

A childhood bruise

The reminiscence of a holiday

of a year one is unsure of…

The years pass by

I sit by the banks

Time and I

Oblivious of one another

The sun sets

I turn around and see

The sun rise

From the other side

A white balloon glides through the stars

An orange ball rolls by the white lilies

The sky is black

The sky is blue

The sky is white

A lotus blooms

in the waters

seduced by the moon

embraced by a serpent.