Kindling

You are like ember
A steady flowing glow
Anticipating the brush of life
If our spirits were free
We would be set ablaze
Fire, endless bliss

Tangled

I see you
But I can not speak
Caught in restrain
When truth finally reveals itself
When clarity ensues
Fate’s twists silence
We are powerless
We wait
For twists to untangle
Trust in truth revealing itself again

5 to 8

Slouched in a depression
Staring up at the ceiling
I reach out my hands above me
The daylight falls on my palm
I reach into the empty air
Hymns lull me into the emptiness of space and time
Horizontal lines on the window stare me down
Numbers on the wall is my heartbeat

Eyes wide and moist
Flightless in the nest
Dreaming of green fields and blue skies

There are no chains, just bad habits
No sentence, just dependence
No bars, just distance
No dream, there is no dream

The day shines bright
But where is the light?

Falling Leaves

From a thousansd miles away she wakes
A world of possibility waits
She steps into the brightness of a new morning

She is strong yet she is fragile
Always trying to prove herself
Struggling to bloom in a world of loud palettes
But her presence is the gentle hue that inspires
She thinks that the world is filled with gloom,
Her silent pain is the world's contempt
Yet she shines like the sun
She is the vision, the muse and inspiration

She remains unsure, oh if she could only see
She is the song that keeps the world together
And she doesn't know how much she is loved
But she is my only hope

Damp

All of time has come to waste
These words can never be heard

In the midst of darkness
A faint memory, an ember
The swift winds of solitude
They tease what has come and gone

The biting blaze
That consumed our world
Such was life
We lived, loved, burned
And now we sulk in the ashes

Passing through

This is now
Caught in the silence
There is peace
Nothing
I, alone

And all the things that used to be
Pass by in a haze at the corner of my eye
I don't wince
Don't take note
I can barely even tell they're there
But they are

A ghost
Walking in an empty shell
Ignoring the questions
Nowhere near the answers

Stillness
Solitude
Silence
Slowly drifting into the blur
Dreaming
Of something that was
Or is
Or can never be
Of nothing, nothing more

Aftermath

Every breath tightens
Darkness surrounds
A single picture remains
The consequences of our decisions
They haunt us incessantly
We have to live through the pain
Hoping that time will take its course
So we can learn to be free again