Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

143rd Place Northeast

Sitting alone in this cavernous room in the desert wastes far from home when lonliness creeps up from within and the war rages on I remember a place where life seemed easier seemed simpler a long, long time ago playing in the trails along Quil Ceda the creek was a new dimension where brave soldiers [...]


Inside

Outside, bounce bounce happy shiny people dancing in the crowd smiling, smiling, always smiling Outside, strong, steel and iron fearless, brave confident outspoken Inside, a different story homesick for a land stressed and strained depressed just the same afraid, sad lonely afraid of what may afraid of not knowing lonely always alone even in a [...]


Melancholy

spinning round spinning round my wold is spinning round rotating faster faster rotating my thoughts are clamoring, clamoring like a traffic jam with no traffic man no eye in the sky what do i need to do to get through to you why won’t you talk to me why can’t i get this to work [...]


Space

some people say they want to go to space as i look them in the face and say that is no place for me they talk about being amongst the moon and stars and galaxies so very far planets and planets here and there and all i do is stare with mouth Sahara dry i [...]


Dobson and Southern

so much to tell so much to learn so much so much so much electricity in the air so much feeling, care so much so much so much i want to tell you so much you want to say so much i think of you, when you’re away so much closed off, hide away a [...]


A Song of An American Soul (previously Untitled 10-25)

1 alone i sit wild thoughts dancing around my brain, awaking each moment a movie, a blockbuster of sorts playing its matinee in my head i am not dreaming of specific things for specific things don’t make very good stories i dream in concepts, aspects, past and present now and future, myself and you my [...]


Excuses

shapes, sizes, they come in all carried by everyone from the pope to that guy named paul find them, in a store you can’t buy them they are for free and you make them yourself, you see i’m not talking of some product commodity freely traded stock accessory excuses, excuses ever try just telling the [...]


Resolve

i see all those around me trying to make sense of life battered by waves of pain and hurt the weight of the world brings us down standing like atlas when we otherwise should not we hold the weight of all upon our shoulders when that’s not what we’re about so i sit, a simple [...]


Sentinel

silent watching through the night dim flicker flame only light beating fingers across the desk finding happiness in time and meter yet nothing comes stepping away the heart goes searching scouting for the sentinel hiding in shadows watching still too afraid to say anything yet nothing comes the sentinel waits for something good to come [...]


Breakaway

looking at life through a window pane feeling the wind rattle and the pounding rain looking back at all that i’ve been through i see my struggles before me, and the pain that’s when i see you my fire flame looking at life through breakaway glass watching the scenes play out, alas learning from each [...]