Blind Man's Touch

As my senses are heightened
So does my sorrow
What kind of man
Hides from tomorrow

Living today
Like it will never end
Wasting time
Finding how far the mind will bend

Lost in a circle
Of a never ending rhyme
Hoping all things change
Given enough time

Questions abound
In a never ending stream
Ignored while awake
Only answered in a dream

Where I open my eyes
And throw down my crutch
To find that I'm blessed
With a blind man's touch

The darkness comforts
I'm relaxed to the core
I flex my knuckles
And begin to soar

As my fingers dance
Along the curve of your face
I recognize your smile
And my thumbs gives chase

Absorbing all features
Through all ten tips
I pause for a moment
And ponder your lips

Slowly I soak in
All of that pressed line
Freezing that image
And that moment in time

So much power
In my blind hand's sight
But it is powerless
To turn day into night

Because in the morning
That image will be gone
For my hands go blind
With the break of the dawn.

Patience Bridge

Fearing what to do
is the hardest thing
When you feel your whole life
is hanging by a string
To grasp and grapple in a battle
to hold tight
you might falter and fumble
yourself into flight
if you loosen your grip
and wait for your chance
you might wait forever
locked in your stance
The trick is to balance
and know when to try
to take a deep breath
and close your eye
Get lost in the depth
and pattern of the weave
gather it's strength
but it's structure you leave
in this mesh
a thread you will braid
over and again
until a bridge you have made
This bridge only leads onwards
only one way to go
Let go of the string
and go for a stroll.

Brazilian Triangle

Roots Go Deep

Chrome magnolias
oh so dreamy
Metal flower
oh so gleamy
Shine your light
in my eyes
Open your petals
start to rise
Spread your light
around your world
As your leaves
become unfurled
Pistils are hot
and that's ok
The bees will land
and fly away
With the life
you have created
And the hope
you’ve reinstated
For a better life
and a better year
Without sadness
without fear
Create a seed
of new beginning
Let's begin the bell
is ringing
Clueing us
to the season
One of birth
one of reason
The roots we tap
intertwine
In each other
we hope to find
Another connection
that we can make
Something strong
it will not break
In this shield
the blossom will grow
Laughter persists
and time will slow
Endless summer suns
power this gift
Slowly building
to the shift
At which time
our roots know when
We’re reborn
alive again.

Finally Awake

Streaks of madness
stream past my eyes
I wonder when
the core will arise
Bursting on the scene
with a soundless thunder
Raising the mantle
tearing it asunder
His hand is open
beckoning it on
The only choice
is to listen
and to be a pawn

In the mindless games
that mad gods play
Touching the void
to be the perfect clay
In your image
the design will remain
His only vestige
is a spreading stain
That masks the structure
and cloaks the truth
Bending reason
an eye for a tooth
Teasing the puzzle
and its pieces apart
Blind to the end
can't see to the start
But in that void
you'll find your sight
You see the pattern
and hold on tight
To branches of ideas
that cross and scatter
Some important
some hardly matter

To achieve your goal
you must be centered
In your mind
you must have entered
A place so tight
no thought can escape
Forged in emotions
to give it a shape
A landscape open
but closed inside
An endless spiral
of a joyous ride
In this place
you have no fear
Flipped out backwards
like an inverted sphere
With the infinite volume
of an empty brain
Defined by science
blessed by the arcane

It is here
that you make your choice
To wilt in silence
or to lift your voice
Through dead sleep
you must break
Eyes wide open
finally awake.

Green dream

Bee Food

Anaheim Garlic Onion Portabello

Long face

Wide open

Whose knows

Memorial flame

River of Beer

I don't
really remember
What her
name was

I don't
really remember
What it
Felt like

I don't
really remember
What she
looked like

I don't
really remember
If she had
brown eyes

I don't
really remember
What was
her shoe size

Some time ago
I busted
Some time ago
I fell apart

Some time ago
I broke myself
Some time ago
and broke my heart

I would drink
a river of beer
If I could make
you disappear

Can't close my eyes
to the setting sun
I'm blinded by what
I've become

Can't close my eyes
to the setting sun
Because I know
You're the only one.

Green God

King of leaves
I command all
Twigs and roots
great and small
Sap and seed
they feel my need
chase my logic
and follow my heed
Twining on twin spirals
my root thoughts grow
Combining and finding
the path and the flow
Deeper and Deeper
the spirits they sing
Farther and farther
the thoughts
they bring
Until one day
the river bleeds dry
The mud cakes
and the rocks get high
Out of my shell
The tree god will spring
Spinning slowly
Fighting to bring
The life contained
in a seed so tight
Balancing the darkness
Seeking the light
Searching for weakness
in the walls that stand
Pressing through to
the promised land.

Faith

Unequivocal illogical conclusions based on unequivocal illogical illusions around unequivocal illogical confusion.