Friendless Home

Back, returned, I'm here
Home is where the love is at
But yet I'm alone

Bloodsucker

The crawling creature stalks its prey,
Waiting, patient, then it strikes without say;
Envelops its meal, sucks its blood like sweet juice,
But this all reminds me, reminds me of you.

Isaiah 43:19

Remember not the former things,
Nor consider the things of old.
Behold, I am doing a new thing;
Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Justice, no mercy

The collaborative choice that
Christens our crime,
Enjoying the jousting that
In jealousy is due time,

Rehashing the reluctance
Of rhetorical rhume,
Dig me out of this ditch,
I beg me exhume.

If the sky could weep...

A sunset or a bloodlet?
Wounded, the sky leers.
Sanguine or respite?
Claret prolific, sans one tear.

6th-Hour Horizon

This auburn afternoon
Is dyed crimson in hue,
The saltwater shades
Collapse in my view,

An apex of incarnadine
Ashes inseparate,
Envelops the edge like a
Hand that is desperate.

Light of Fear

Incandescent fear
Life's dull umbrage illumine
Oh the irony.

Similar Differences

I like sports and
You like books,
You use spoons
While I use sporks,
You toss salad
While I grill ribs,
I watch Braveheart,
You'd see the Notebook instead,

You like plans,
I hate them so,
My vocabulary compared
To you is low.
I play Halo,
You volunteer,
When Christmas comes,
You bring good cheer,

You laugh and sing,
I am tone-deaf,
I play guitar,
You play clarinet,
But if there is one
Thing that we share,
It's the water we drink and
How we breathe the air.

Mystery, you are

You're an enigma,
A confined charisma,
The laconic essential,
A self-muting crescendo.

Ssss

Safekeeping is

Your somber sobriety,

Your ensemble of

Secret sovereignty.

Sunrise/Sunset

Are you sunrise or sunset?

Are you rising above the clouded fog,

The mountain blackened hue?

Or are you falling, fleeing, away from me,

Beneath the ocean blue?

Are you sunrise or sunset?

It's so good that it's scary

Escaping into the shade
Isn't disdain of the light...
It's the fear of too much
Of a good thing.

Shady, Even the Slim

A Tree needs leaves to
Give sufficient shade -
Even the smallest things
Play a big role.

Light & Dark

A lantern is only

As effective as the

Darkness around it.

Psych Tripe

I majored in psych,

I've got everyone figured out,

But about myself,

There's no way I'll ever lose doubt.

ABCs

Albeit altruistic adherence,

Blinding Binding Banality,

Coercion coalesces, 

Debt dividing doubt,

Evading evanescent eloquence,

Faux Fidelity,

Gives gander gracious,

Haughty hostility,

Incites insipid instability,

Jealousy.

Know knaves knives,

Limber lollygagging,

Mindless menial maintenance mentally,

Nothing.

Obsequious onto ownership,

Pressure instead of Passion,

Quenching qualms quite quo warranto,

Really rancid rebellion,

Steals salacious savoring,

Testing time,

Umber.

Veiling voluminous vice,

Wailing wishing wanting,

Xenophobic Xanadu,

Yelp Yelp Yes,

Zabaglione?

Tantalizing, no?

Hands I raise, clench my fist,

The further I reach, afar it doth drift,

I facedown, yearn to slake,

But repel it does, I can't satiate.

I am Tantalus,

I am Tantalus,

Forever out of my reach,

For I am Tantalus.

Fleeting

A second ticks a minute past,

A minute ticks an hour more,

The hour ticks a day, a week,

A month, a year,

The time flies without you evermore.

Companionship?

What is Paris without the Eiffel?

What is Pisa with no tower?

What is the point of time

If I'm not with you every hour?

Lost in your Paradise

Even though Milton's words

Confuse me about the divine,

Nothing can get me more lost

Than when I look in your eyes.

Golden Holden

"Blue as hell," Caulfield states,

Yes, since greed never abates,

So great, so grand, so swell?

If only,

All it makes you is a goddamn phony.

Black & White, Starry Night

Van Gogh, alight with skill he might,

My canvas, true colors may lack,

Even if I lived this starry night,

The sky would pitch an endless black.

The Search

Would you tell me where to look?

I want to, I want to

I've lost it here, please tell me

Where to find it, where to find it.

Book Smarts

I understood Hemingway,

Even with Joyce, there was no doubt,

But why you never loved me back,

I will never figure out.

Scrubs can't fix it

Even if I went to med school

And saving lives became my art,

Nothing I'd ever learn from there

Would help me ever mend my heart.

Hamlet, Crybaby 101

"If I were all one tear,"

Drenched, the soul's passion abate,

I would be yours, dear,

Grieving, weeping, weight for weight.

False Start = DQ

Track taught me how to sprint,

I was the fastest in the pack,

But I'll have to learn how to crawl

If I ever want you back.

Kafka knows women well

Poor Gregor, he turned into vermin,

One morning after uneasy dreams.

Likewise, so can graceful women,

Beauty is not always as it seems.

Nice Try, Dickens

To a scholar of Dickens,

I'd be a flat character.

But flip me over

And you'll see a whole

Different side.

Run Run

Like Daphne you flee

While I, Apollo, on one knee

Hold out my heart on a chain,

When I catch up at last,

A tree formed you fast,

But admire you I can all the same.