You have been ignored for so longLost but never forgottenPeople with common sense made it soThey are long gone nowMindless, senseless, morons lead nowMaking threats against an innocent worldSadly, there is no one to say anything to themNo one to point out their stupiditySo you wait to be awakened againThe world will pray that someone will say noAnd maybe you will once again sleep
Fire Dragon
Look into the sky
Dragons of fire
With wings of fire
Fly between the clouds
They follow the sun
When it sets so far away
The dragons spread their wings
Lighting the evening sky
Beautiful amber light
Night comes
They fold their wings
Resting for another evening
Lost In My Mind
Lost in my own world
So hungry
So thirsty
Where are the animals?
Where is the water?
Where is the light?
There isn’t one star to guide me
The sky is full of faint lights
To far away to help me find my way
No hope of ever seeing the sun again
It is a world of black
My mind is making me do without
Maybe it wants to kill me
I do not know
I do not care
Let it bring starvation
Let my tongue swell with thirst
I will fight with my last breath
Struggling against my mind
I will not let it win
I cannot let it win
I am stronger than anything my mind can create
It can keep its barren world
It can keep the dry river beds
I will survive despite my mind
I will survive
An Unspoken Love
A quiet darkness
Music plays so far off in the distance
The couple looks into each other’s eyes
There is an unspoken love between them
They hold each other as tight as they can
The music moves their bodies
Rhythmic tones match their beating hearts
Cool air warms around them as their feelings grow
The low sounds of the saxophone
A beat held by a deep mahogany bass
Sweet music from the ivory of an antique piano
All meet and create music that none may ignore
The two people who hide their feelings
Become enveloped in the magic
A dance in the light of only distance stars
A few whispered words
And a gentle kiss opens the world
They look in each other’s eyes and together they say three words
“I love you” fills the air between them and they become one
And…at last they are happy
A Bluish Violet Flower
A bluish violet flower watches from the shore of an ancient riverbed
A river born of fire when the Earth was new
Sulfuric air, ground ripped apart from Earth’s upheaval
Chemicals mixed with lightening to create life
Single celled animals and ancient reptiles
And a single plant on the burnt earth
A single plant with a single bluish violet flower
It lived its life with cooling water
Cattails lined the shore
A million flowers bloomed every spring
Fish and turtles swam in its currents
Children played on its shore
Laughing and jumping into the refreshing waters
The waters caressed the bluish violet flower
Giving it life saving moisture
Still the bluish violet flower watched the fish, the turtles and the children
The river long ago died
The riverbed that, from the beginning held life, is still now
Rocks of sandstones and granite create a natural blanket
The only fish are fossils of life millions of years old
That bluish violet flower
The one whose life began when time was young
The one who watched when life began and thrived in a lonely riverbed
It remembers the fish, the turtles, the children and the flowers
That bluish violet flower still watches
It watches the stillness and the silence
And all alone it mourns
Under The Weeping Willow
I saw you when we were kids
Playing with blocks on the kindergarten floor
We grew up
You became a beauty
I became a geek
I never had the never had the nerve to talk to you
Then we met
Under the weeping willow down on the shores of the river
We met, we held hands and we kissed
That old weeping willow shed its tears
The willow's tears that flowed in happiness
We had found the love we both wanted
I proposed and we wed
Promising to share our lives from then on
Never to part
I saw the love in your eyes
The geek married the beauty
And the rest of our lives began
Under the weeping will down on the shores of the river
We shared our vows
The rings shined on our finger
That old weeping willow shed its tears
The willow's tears that flowed in happiness
We had found the forever we both wanted
Our baby was born on a summer day
The sun was warm and the breeze gentle
She was named willow
And she smiled at the sun shining through the leaves
She loves her mother and father
All the love in the world could be seen in her eyes
Under the weeping will down on the shores of the river
We were the perfect family
A beautiful little girl with a future of love ahead
She brought pure happiness into our lives
That old weeping willow shed its tears
The willow's tears that flowed in happiness
We had found the family we both wanted
That winter the love of my life died
She went to sleep
She answered God's call
All her prayers would be answered
I am sure that she was welcomed to Heaven
And given a beautiful pair of wings
Under the weeping will down on the shores of the river
I laid her body to rest
A beautiful love that will last forever
She is smiling because she was loved
That old weeping willow shed its tears
The willow's tears that flowed in sadness
The love of my life was gone
Fractals
Colors, strands and beams
Arranged into a rainbow
Twisted around each other
They form a warped vision
Every piece large
Every piece small
Connected in an infinite web
Confusion and clarity
Chaos and order
All in one place
Spread across the Universe
It is seen in the mind
Conjured up in nightmares
Just a series of mathematical equations
Numbers in the right place at the right time
Creating such beauty
A Lasting Love
I lie here in the dark
A golden flame shines from a bayberry candle
The ancient rune of love carved into the dark red wax
Mistletoe hangs over every door and window
Spirits watch and pray
On the pillow next to me I see you
Your eyes shine with a love never known
Your lips want to be kissed and your skin glows in the faint light
I feel you breathe
I hear your soft sighs as you dream
It has been long for both of us
Tainted by mistakes of our youth
Years, no decades, we suffered
Knowing that each other existed
Yet never able to find the other
Our souls drifted
We searched, we dreamed and we had hope
I look at you in the darkened room
As you sleep beside me I see what I need to really live
My love for you and yours for me
A love that will last forever and a day.