Burning bright
Shedding light
Out into the dark void
Noble fire
Lonely desire
Roaring into the silence
Why do you blaze
With such ferocious power
And wage war with darkness
Billions of years
Billions of stars
Flaming into obscurity
But our sun has a purpose
To provide for life on the small blue planet
In order to feed and keep warm intelligent humans
How disgusted our sun must be
To expend so much energy
On a harvest consumed to dust
True Love is the grand enigma
Often obscured by human stigma
Two spirits growing not as one
Else in the end neither have won
Fate plays the leading role
Binding two by the soul
Free Will takes the reigns
Together as two we break the chains
True Love flows from the source
Perpetual force propels the course
Carves through rock in constant motion
Powering its way to the expansive ocean
Sunlight sparkles on the great expanse
Dew crawls up the beaming lance
Love transforms to a billowing height
Zeus hurls bolts with all his might
Thunder pounds ethereal life
Slicing false love in two with a knife
True love absorbs the rumble
Enjoys the power in their passionate tumble
No living atom comes at last to naught!
Active in each is still the eternal Thought:
Hold fast to Being if thou wouldst be blest.
Being is without end; for changeless laws
Bind that from which the All its glory draws
Of living treasures endlessly possessed.Unto the wise of old this truth was known,
Such wisdom knit their noble souls in one;
Then hold thou still the lore of ancient days!
To that high power thou ow’st it, son of man,
By whose decree the earth its circuit ran
And all the planets went their various ways.
Then inward turn at once thy searching eyes;Thence shalt thou see the central truth arise
From which no lofty soul goes e’er astray;
There shalt thou miss no needful guiding sign-
For conscience lives, and still its light divine
Shall be the sun of all thy moral day.
Next shalt thou trust thy senses’ evidence,
And fear from them no treacherous offence
While the mind’s watchful eye thy road commands:
With lively pleasure contemplate the scene
And roam securely, teachable, serene,
At will throughout a world of fruitful lands.
Enjoy in moderation all life gives:
Where it rejoices in each thing that lives
Let reason be thy guide and make thee see.
Then shall the distant past be present still,
The future, ere it comes, thy vision fill-
Each single moment touch eternity.
Then at the last shalt thou achieve thy quest,
And in one final, firm conviction rest:
What bears for thee true fruit alone is true.
Prove all things, watch the movement of the world
As down the various ways its tribes are whirled;
Take thou thy stand among the chosen few.
Thus hath it been of old; in solitude
The artist shaped what thing to him seemed good,
The wise man hearkened to his own soul’s voice.
Thus also shalt thou find thy greatest bliss;
To lead where the elect shall follow-this
And this alone is worth a hero’s choice.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Three thousand miles apart
Pacific Ocean here
Atlantic Ocean there
Towering mountains in between
Heart ripped in half
Young blossoming youth here
Silky hard warmth there
Deep falling canyon in between
Blood gushing from the tear
Love for son here
Love for woman there
Can’t cross the Great Divide
Growing weak and faint
Less to give here
Less to give there
I meet death halfway
There are days I fall low
Think I hit bottom
Begin to claw my way up
Pride sheds like dead skin
Sun warms fingers
But I fall again
Deeper
Begin to claw again
Blood stains cold rock
Eyes see light
But I fall again
Deeper
Begin to claw once more
Soul leaks from open wounds
Can hear birds singing
But I fall once more
Deeper
Don’t have much left
To begin my crawl
I understand how you feel
No need for words
I too am hanging on
By a few frayed threads
All those faceless women
Coming through your door
Headboard banging against the wall
Primal sounds pierce the night
A flash of forgetful pleasure
Then silence
Out the door they stumble
You alone in your bed
The daylight will come
Your problems still there
Swimming in debt
The court date is set
Three times cuffed
Is no drunken charm
They will take all away
Yet still you live like a whore
More flashes of joy
Hedonistic pleasures
To be repaid with interest
The walls are closing in
There is no escape
Except that one option
What is that you mumble?
You want to surrender?
Life is no longer worth it?
Leave your debt behind?
Unpaid years of whoredom?
But this is no option
My friend
You have two little girls
This is no noble Roman act
Accept your punishment
Realize your mistakes
Let them knock you to the ground
Wallow in your fall
From once peak economic heights
Reflect on how you got here
Redefine what peak height means
Begin to slowly crawl
Get to your knees
Try to stand
I am your friend
I will not hand you a knife
But I offer my trembling hand
We can stand together
Walk with me
And at least try
To begin anew
Ocean currents
Travel far
Wind
Invisible breeze
Clouds
Effortless flight
Rivers
Endless flows
Land
Silently moves
Star light
Infinite directions
Heavenly bodies
Eternal motion
Only the animate
Marks territory
With urine and scent
Fabricated borders
Pretend territories
False barriers
Let it go
Let it flow
Ah…an unexpected productive day on the blog. Somehow, I was able to overcome Beethoven’s 7th symphony movement #2, to find some voice and words worth expressing. My final poem or muse…and then sleep. No need to wait and proof in the morning. This draft is good enough for a blog. One can always improve words, but I am tired and satisfied. Good night fellow man…and woman…sweet dreams.
Here I float
Alone
Idle
Latent energy
Naïve hope
Potential
Available to ignite
For a purpose
A grand vision
But I know what the future holds
My fuel will again be burnt
On the banal task
For money
To “earn” a living
To make a profit
Flesh slowly decays
Muscles wither away
Brain turns to mush
Bones begin to crack
Spirit worn away
Like the rocks from the pounding surf
Forced to carve a small niche
A quiet cove
Away from humankind
To enjoy slivers of beauty
Scraps of fulfillment
Oh modern civilized man
How many more beings will you sacrifice?
Slaughter to your small greedy task?
Look in the mirror
Review your past
Contemplate the Great Abyss
Imagine the future
To understand our true purpose
We were designed to excel
To challenge our uninterested God
To fight the Grand War
Thrust the flaming sword
Into the heart of darkness
And die a Noble Death
Together
Not alone
Disgraced
Unfulfilled
Wasted unused potential
Beautiful little woman
Inside and out
Small but tall
Petite yet firm
Quiet and strong
Long flowing jet black hair
Fair skin rarely touched
Pretty full lips sparingly shared
Heart and soul burned to iron
To battle the world at hand
A brave warrior you have become
Armor surrounds your being
If only I could wisp you away
In both time and space
To when you were just a little girl
To a place worthy of you
When and where you could be
A woman with a trusting heart
With an ocean-wide expansive soul
Free as the wind to become
The woman you were meant to be
And I
A man
Worthy of your love
Beautiful ruler of the seas
Power and grace supreme
Perfect form slicing the expanse
Stealth shocking death
Turns Ocean blue red
Shiny black mysterious night
Glistening white glacial ice
War paint
Dreams from wolfish past
Howling at the moon
Terrifying raw freedom
Roaming wild intelligence
Natural strength embraces abyss
No fabricated tools or laws
Noble opponent to inanimate might
Bright beast confronts infinite chaos
The eternal Battle of the Titans
Man merely a misinformed spectator
Or long gone
Failing to comprehend the Grand War
Contemplating The Human Direction 