I walk in and say helloNo response no friends I knowAin’t nobody care bout me for ‘shoHumans these days, they fucking blow Do all the right things in all the right waysLeap through all the hoops and say all the saysDon’t seem to matter when I go or if I staysToo different so I don’t get no happy days I greet a busy room and they all stay silentThis is polite? I feel like getting violentEverybody just reminds me that I’m differentWhy should it matter? You can’t be considerate? Used to be it was one for me and one for […]

In the haze I see us thereHands entwined without a careWhispers float on starlit airTimeless moments we both share Echoes of us linger onMemories have never goneIn my mind they play our songEchoes of us linger long Dreamy fugue I drift awayBack to where we used to laySoft your voice would gently swayNow only echoes come to stay Echoes of us linger onMemories have never goneIn my mind they play our songEchoes of us linger long Lost in shadows of the pastWish those times could always lastEvery heartbeat fades so fastBut your echo holds me fast Echoes of us linger […]

When the bad times happen in lifeWhen weeping and dealing with strifeWhen the lack of understanding seems rifeThen it’s time to pick up wisdom’s jackknife Then is when you start to ask “why”Then repeat it as all the answers flyThen continue until all but one dieThen, finally, your truth is nigh Self-deception has ruined so many thingsKnowing your inner truth gives life wings Many times we know things we don’t want to seeMany times we blow things refusing to let them beMany times we sow things quite impatientlyMany times we know woe for refusing our agency The magic of living […]

Tried to make me just like youClaim I don’t know what to saySo I left, now you’re the foolDon’t need words, I walk away You think you’re such a cipherI know you’re a conniverScene? You’re the contriverFailed? Then I’m your survivor With you there’s no mysteryNothing but sophistry Think the world must go your wayBuckle up, and better praySo afraid of commitmentYour partners always lament When once I was at your sideNever once your look of prideTrust and truth with you just dieRelationship you divide Tattered remnants so gristlyYour best is my history Once I thought you demiurgeThen you from […]

Sit and play with words in my every dayAlways perturbed how much they cannot saySeems ironic how words get in the waySo much talking but life it does not sway Have this feeling my life has gone all wrongIs this struggle because I am headstrongHave I been on the wrong page all alongThink I’ve lost the plot else I don’t belong My words are always in such disarrayMaybe this is why happy cannot stayI have felt this same way for all my lifeOften less, never more, it’s always strife My wishes for peace ever come to naughtIn constant turmoil, I […]

We human beings make up one large tribeHard sometimes to see, differences divideOur teachers advocate the circumscribeBut we prefer to indulge in the jibe Competitive survival, that’s our curseRuining the planet, and making things worse Caught between progress and our primal mightFears of change regress, can’t embrace our lightChase innovation, each day and all nightStill struggle to balance wrong and right Now the harvest comes, pollutants long sownThe super-site drum numbers only grownHuman hubris loves to think the world oursKilling biosphere this ownership sours Rather collapse than disaster negate“Fix it tomorrow” – the future’s checkmate We can’t be moochers, for […]

Fifty-five, the age I fadeRelevance lost, in endless shadeNo longer needed, no longer claimedThe world moves on, and no one’s blamed EEOC says it straight, outrightOver fifty-five, that’s your plightYounger faces, eager to shareLess is more, the price they’ll spareBut wisdom’s worth, what about that?Experience counts, and we’ve sure had thatFamily too, once close and trueNow withdrawn, that’s nothing new I’m lost in a world that’s moved awayNo longer relevant, just cost to defrayFifty-five, the age of disarrayWithdrawn from life, left nothing to say Invisible lines, they cut so deepAging out of relevance, we must keepTrying to adapt, but it’s […]

Noblesse oblige: time to fulfill your wordBring unto us the life that we deserveStop with the sick games that only perturbEnd the disdain before you’re on the curb All generations experience changeNo human elite rests out of its range Profiteering power is ever strongLabor’s voice raised, battles are longStrikes and boycotts each begin the next plightOf 1800’s, twas a fair wage fight Turn of century, first was a coal strikeFar from the first upon labor’s turnpikeEach decade ’til now, if not much soonerLabor decries business, the impugner Today, the global bankers all cavortEvidence of manifest human tort Value delusions from […]

Limerence is the word of which I speakMind obsession, no healthy human seeksHook of history that sticks where you’re weakPulls the ancient wounds, always makes you shriek Love to be in love more than love anotherLove despair too, decadently smother Entangled with a man named for a flowerBorderline narcissistic, I gave him this powerDeep wisdom in lessons as he did devourAs with most endings, me I did him scour So I always say aloud, wishing it were trueTen full years it took to really follow through There are still some times on a really quiet nightI catch myself wondering if […]