Monday, October 31, 2011

Hallow's End

Here comes Halloween
Monsters scream
Demon's dream
Here comes the night that never ends.

Enter Halloween
Blood dripping
Candles flickering
Don't dare turn for fear of fright

In creeps Halloween
Stalking slowly
Hunting hungrily
Reaching into your quiet bed.

Do not run
You cannot hide

Face your fear
or die of fright

No more day
You're doomed tonight

Halting steps
No one behind

Up the stairs
All alone

Lock your door
It will not help

Restless sleep
Maybe its a dream

Gentle knife
Upon your throat

Wake up shocked
and see your end

Start to scream
But cannot breath

Knife buried deep
Happy Halloween

Here comes Halloween
Merry fun and games
Kids come out to play
Just remember this...

Don't stay out too late

Sunday, October 30, 2011

A Waltzing Dream.

Shall we waltz?
One, Two, Three
You and Me
Just waltzing free

A simple step
Left and Right
Hold me tight
Dancing Tonight

Side by side.
Till the dawn
We are drawn
The world is gone

Your eyes gleam
In them I
See no lie
only why.

When I stop
You look shocked
You act locked
Confidence knocked

I walk out
My spirit lost
My hope tossed
Fingers crossed

Then you come
From the hall
Stop my fall
Heart and all

Shall we waltz?
One, Two, Three
Can you see
fear in me?

But waltzing takes
My nervous feet
My frantic beat
My sad defeat

And causes them to great
The lovely shimmering street.

You'll never need to Change

Like the evergreen
Like the endless tide
Like the timeless snow
You never need to change

Mountains fall
Mountains grow
So the years
Will always flow

But you never need to change
Not when your heart is fit to burst
Not when the night leaves you yearning
Not when confusion rages all around

The grass will always grow
The sun will always set
Seasons change from life to death
And then change back again.

Everything you ever need
Is waiting in that hopeful soul
Ever decision ever made
Came from you and only you

The light will always shine
Until the darkness puts it out
Then shadows reign unchallenged
Until the light is sparked

You never need to change
To become something else
To be larger then life
Is another way of hiding from it.

Be yourself
and hold it close
There are a thousand nameless faces
There are a thousand nameless people

Friday, October 28, 2011

My Heart's Resting Place.

Can you learn to lay beside me?
Can I teach you how it feels
To be more then just a lover
To be less then just a soulmate

Your body is sublime
Your mind just as fascinating
But I don't need your everything
I don't even need your smile

Just the words, "I will"
To leave those cracked lips
And make me realize that in this world
Another person exists.

Just a moment
Just a night
That we can be together
Just for my life

I've never burned a bridge
I haven't wanted to rebuild
I've never felt so alone
I haven't the slightest clue

So please just give me this token
Just give me this gift
A night in the company of another
Would be a night I'd always remember

But amid my lovestruck longing
And my desperate heart's lies
I already know the answer
To this self-defeating wish

I could never lay with someone
Who isn't my beloved
Who I don't want with all my heart
Who I would never care for

So exiled by nature
instead of cruel fate
My heart will wait into the night
For the one I wish to rest against.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

How Destiny is Shaped

Are you afraid
Of death
Of life
Of the end of time
Of timelessness

Are you aware
Of meek choices
Of single paths
Of bloodless contentment
Of longing undesirable

Are you willing
To fight and kill
To conquer and claim
To run forever
To die unhappy

I have made my choice and said my prayers
I have sealed my fate
A hopeless odyssey was started in ignorance
Upon the sea, I must now sail into Hades

Listen and beware, oh hopeless sailors
Oh those of wonderment who dwell upon land
Seek not the sea and merry tales of adventure
If you are meant to live inside the belly of this monster

It has already devoured you whole.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Ariel's Antonym

The hunter will always be hunted
Dark forces lurk in us all
Undeniable and Unconquerable
Hidden just out of sight
Hidden just behind your shadow
With the darkest secret that can be known
The one that keeps your heart whole

The angel will always burn
The poor selfless martyr
Tied to the stake
Left on the pyre
For no just cause
They burn willingly for others sins
Forever burned into history as damned

The past may be set in stone
Locked in pastoral scenes
Not seen in glorious illumination
But shadows of the past
Shadows of the heart
The ghost of pure intention
A ghost that will never be again.

But history will always repeat itself
A broken record that heralds doom
A cyclical sickle of mankind's folly
The joke without the laughter
The future that's already the past
Together with our misery and our innocence
We march into the reinvented once upon a time.

The hunter will always be hunted
The angel will always burn
The past may be set in stone
But history will always repeat itself

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

as we wait

As we wait for the commercial to end
As we wait for the conversation to change
As we wait for the night to be over
As we wait for the next morning
As we wait for the better week
As we wait for the another month
As we wait for the snow to melt
As we wait for the years to pass
As we wait for the world to change

We must always remember

The world doesn't turn on a dime
The years are not a chain, but a blessing
The snow is beautiful as it is
The months are basically the same
The weeks don't change who you are
The morning will find you the same
The night is in your hands
The conversation is in your hands
The commercial will soon end

What will you do about it?

Monday, October 24, 2011

Turn and Say Hello

Turn to me and say hello
I promise I'll reply

I just want a couple words
and nothing I'll deny

Give me the time of day
or turn to ask me why

Any minor chitchat will do
That would make me high

I just need a little word
to end this constant sigh

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Where We Wander To.

Moments and colors
Sensations of truth
After all
Truth is in the eye
Truth is in the fingers
Truth is in the ear

While lies exist with nothing
A trick of imagination
Creation with no foundation
A flora that grows off emptiness
No conception that can be clung to
Leaves us to create in the unknown

But confidence supreme
exists within awareness of everything
or unheeded ignorance of fear

So to blossom into ourselves
We must learn from our very air
From the soil under our feet
From the words from our own mouths

We must forget what cannot be found
What lies beyond all senses
What causes us to run from the dark
What beckons us to the cliffs edge

Forget the words unspoken
Listen to the call of the Bold

Courage is the path
We are the Journey

Saturday, October 22, 2011

The Opulent Opus

Such a superbe collection of symbols
Could not be located by the finest orienteer
More valuable then twenty years of orthodontics
This work could oxygenate a foreign planet.

The marvellous effects of this would not be incongruous
With the acts of some multi-limbed alien god, irreproachable
The mere mention of the title is an invocation
of iridescent images beyond all imaginings.

But think of this not as a picaresque
or an act as tragic as pneumonia
Though this stanza may sound pompous
It will heal all wounds through pontification.

My aim is as humble as a costermonger
and in the hours, crepuscular
You will wrap these words around you like a cummerbund
and feel as if you have been filled with chipolata.

While this poem may have left you nonagenarian
Remember it as a nasturtium
And dedicate all future nomenclature
To our beloved member of the nouveau riche

Simon Tottrup

Thursday, October 20, 2011

First Light Declaration

Deliver me to the Dawn
Let the rays be caught within me
Through this daily miracle
I can be a work of art.

What is human flesh
A crude and empty vessel
But the capacity for brilliance
is waiting to be filled.

Deliver me to the Dawn
Let a sight too perfect to be seen
Be found within me
and be reflected upon others.

What is perfection
A warm and well-trod road
that cannot be walked to the end
But can be journeyed upon

Deliver me to the Dawn
Let me be more like sold gold
Fortify my soul
So I am less like frozen glass

What is brittle
can become strong
and what is transparent
can become alive.

Deliver me to the Dawn
Let my sparkling glass body
Be filled with morning light
and let me shine throughout the day.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Till the End of your Days.

Let me take your frozen heart

and thaw it just a bit.


Let me take that endless scape

and give it shape.


Let me glance in your direction

and make you jump.


Let me speak to your soul

and bless you with wings


Let me lie beside you

and make you blissful


Let me take you away

and show you my perfect world


And because you let me


I will abandon you in the night

and show you my own hell


I will steal the sleep you wish for

and make you restless


I will silence you forever

and curse you without words


I will never look at you again

and make your soul dull


I will turn that landscape back to grey

and take away the world I made.


I will freeze your melted heart

and you will want to live in that tundra.


Till the end of your days.

Your Odds of Survival.

Today is here
Tomorrow is gone
Nothing is for certain
Nothing will go on

Fractures of the earth
Sparks from the sky
At any moment
Things can turn to do or die

Security, an illusion
A trick to calm the people
From the horrible truth
that life can go from daisies to steeple.

Persistance means nothing
To the almighty Actuary
Compiling the odds and chances
of your trip to the obituary.

Apocalyptical situations
A common place occurrence
No matter how very remote
will never be a deterrence.

No portrait too bleak
No ending too tragic
The almighty Actuary
Will make it happen, like magic.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Certainty's Journey.

A dream is but a dream
What you wish for
But wishing for a fire
or love or wealth
Means little unless
You have the keys to the kingdom
Or the willingness
To visit the local locksmith

Now together let us march unto the shores
Of unknown countries and self-discoveries
Bound in the chains of our own creations
We will tame these new worlds
Through determination of spirit

While others never take the journey
Never swim for the distant lands
They wonder why and leave it there
To float upon the ocean evermore

Though our questions lead to answers
that we curse for ever hearing
Our spirit becomes composed of such things
that certainty is made of.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Sister Sister

Sister nun, take me please
Take me far away
I've lost the one
Oh sister nun
That makes me want to say

Sister Sister, can you hear
Can you hear the tolling bells?
The church is ringing
for you and me
But you are bound to leave

Sister Sister, walk the path
Walk the path of ashen trees
Never shall they live again
Their time has past
And so has ours concluded

Sister Sister, why the cliff
Why the cliffs foreboding?
I wish to follow you
My sister dear
But off the edge I cannot go.

Sister Sister, where are those
Where are those angel wings?
Once I saw those
wings of white
But now they're only brown.

Sister Sister, say goodbye
Say goodbye to me
Before you take
The longest trip
Just say farewell to me

Oh sister nun, take me please
Please take me far away
I've lost my sister
gone today
Please help her find her way.

Friday, October 7, 2011

It Make Sense.

Revelation of Skeletonization
Trees losing their Leaves
The Finest of Lines
Between a Crusader and a Conquerer

God exists in music
Unproven in its Affirmation.
The Logic can only be found
In a Declarative World.

All this Capitalization
Is part of my Station
Everything I ever Hear
Exist with my Inner Ear.

I can Pretend all I want
And I don't think I'll ever stop
Because it is better not to be
Because to be is another story.

Declaration of Rejuvenation
Revelation of being Alone
Affirmation of Logical World
It all ties Together.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Follow the Path that isn't there.

For a moment, an oasis formed above my head.
Composed of four lines of radiant light
And gentle hexagons that faded in and out of mystery
The color was turquoise to emerald to snow
Shifting without knowledge of their passing
For a moment, I had seen what hadn't been.

But my battered body screamed
And snapped me back into my head
The only thing that remained above
Was four off grey lines of light
The hexagons remained and though beautiful
They were no longer agents of mythology.

I will not see those lights again
Though I'll break myself again
Where my future is found cannot be known
But beauty will always be my guide
So purpose needs no more meaning then that
I'll follow my imagined art.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Breathe

In times of trouble
when all is lost
and your time is up
the only thing you can do
is Breathe

Pain will come
Joy will go
Stories end
Chapters are written
Life is endured

Breath is what send us forth
is what holds us up
What chains us down
Our biggest weakness
and best quality

Panic and Fear
is drowning on land
No breath to bring you
above the waves
inside your head.

Laughter and Tears
are just the opposite
Releasing ourselves
letting ourselves feel
those precious emotions

Come loss and abandonment
Come triumph and ecstasy
Our only salvation
Our true obliteration
Comes from Breath.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Moralities Ambiguity

We are all composed
Of equal parts
Good and evil
Live in harmony

Somehow we harm
When out intentions are good
Sometimes our sins
shatters another's chains.

How can we live
comprised of parts
both equal and opposite
both fighting against one another.

We give ourselves standards
A lie we call morals
We state what we feel is right
and condem everything other

But light shines through
Every action we do
Terrible mistakes
simply sign posts

Even our golden moments
Immortalized lovingly
What are they
but reminders for the future

The nature of action
Is the nature of time
Every second is only a second
Every action is just an action

No one deed is more important
Then the next movement you commit
No action is righteous or villainous
Anything can be whatever you make of it.