Nights of Our Lives

Strange nights lie ahead
Can you feel it in your feet?
The urge to run wild
The need to be free

It's creeping on the horizon
As the sun dips out of sight
Frantic madness is on the rise
And it's rising up to you

Will you fight the frightening state?
Lock yourself away
Or will you go on the hunt
For a better stranger world

Half a world away
It lurks inside bottles of gin
Waiting to be uncorked
And set free into your soul

It lies in possibility
A car, a friend, and a midnight
The wind that ruffles your hair
Half smile and a maybe

Strange nights are just ahead
The sun has gone down
Steel your nerves
For the time of your life

One Night

Give me wishes in the morning

I'm only asking for a star

To hang my hopes on

I just need moonlight in the evening

Something to light my way forward

and to keep my company

It's our night

To find who are in each others arms

It's our chance

To be a dream come true

The Most Polite Request for Your Ladyships Lips

Excuse me
Madam
Miss
Darling
Dearest
I regret to inform you of this

That you
Madam
Miss
Darling
Dearest
Have been missed

But you
Madam
Miss
Darling
Dearest
Can change all of this

If you
Madam
Miss
Darling
Dearest
Will give me a kiss

An Awkward Love Poem (I Like Like You)

Please be awkward with me?
I mean
I know
I think
That you and I
Are kinda
Awkward
To begin with

But maybe if you and I are awkward together maybe just maybe we can find a little patch of romance thats completely our own and maybe a little bit cheesy but really isn't that what love is all about feeling so very in love and together and disney movie like because everything can be magical and beautiful if maybe we can trust each other enough to just be.....

Awkward together?

Because
lets face it
I'm crazy about you.

My Version of Nerdfighterlike

I stood upon a hilltop green

With sword and shield

And tunic of emerald shade

She moved through the grass below

With orbs of red and white about her waist

and a mouse that lit the air with sparks

Our eyes met

Fantasies came true

Our adventures became real

She gave me a pokéball

I handed her my ocarina

We both felt great confusion

But I boldly went into the grass

To train my wild companions

And to one day, perhaps, be the very best

And she played with such courage

Till the wind came at her call

And even time itself stopped for her

So we learned of different worlds

Like the sun and moon

But both the place we found our hearts

So I did not mind

Those days when she disappeared

With her pokemon

And she allowed me time

To find the legendary sword

and fight for courage, wisdom, and power

Once in a place moon

We meet on that green hilltop

Between hyrule and professor oaks lab

I lay down my shield

She leaves her pidgy behind

and we take a break from saving the world

Which is Sweeter? (Flattery and Revenge)

My heart is about to wake

With a vicious hunger for hurt

So find an empty grave

and I'll supply the dirt

Because death is a game

That never really ends

And only true gamblers

Play it with their friends

You might say this or that

That your words don't really mean much

But I know broken bones

and those phrases are more than just a touch

Make my lovely heart bleed

I've been waiting since day one

To make you feel just as bad as me

It's all in good fun.

An invitation to be Honest

Break down all fences
Take off those disguises
Stand before the jury
Speak no lies
Be no pretender

Be Truth incarnate
Say what comes to mind
Hold your position
Without hesitation
Just be

If you don't like it
Then don't do it
If you feel happy
Then follow your dream
You are right

Come false priests
Welcome all charlatans
Speak your words
Tell your tales
I'll decide my honesty

I haven't got a clue.

I've walked from hell and back

It made me enjoy walking

I've scarred my skin quite ritually

To prove my reckless ways

I've kissed the empty air

One day it'll change

I've two secrets in my belt

I don't really care

I've got ways to waste my time

Thats all I really need

I've no idea where I am going

But I am going anyway

I have this and that

and its good enough

I have something on the horizon

and it keeps me going

I have a few ghosts in my past

and I keep them at the cemetery

I know

Whatever I want
I know its wanted by someone else
And apples and trees often stick together

So when I feel hurt
I know that it echos
Like a grandfather clock in a grand hall

I know when you are lost
I'll try and lead you home
But that would be the blind leading the blind

Don't dispair, father
I know you hope as I know you hurt
And I know its darkest before the dawn

But I could say anything
It will ring hollow
I know that hopeless place you've woken to.

Immemorial

Awaiting.

In forest light by evening light.

In silence.

Unyielding

To the ravages of time

Immortal

True

By virtue of age

Undeniable

Still

As an age comes and goes

It stands

Gone

In mind and meaning

Forgotten

Stand forever

Fall from thoughts

Await revival

Secluded truths

A man could say
The secrets of the universe
It doesn't matter if
No one is listening

The sun could set
For the final time
It would be strange
But we would adjust

You could do your best
Or your worst
To, with, or on
Anything at all

I could say
Something important
If I took a moment
To write something

The Rallying Cry

Hear me, oh world, oh world

My cry is as dawn to the night

As striking and breathtaking

As the Lords own heavenly light

Fear me, oh men, oh women

I shall part thee like the air ahead

Moving with such determined haste

That will make the stout crumble

Tremble, oh earth, oh earth

For while I have legs that walk

No corner of thine self is safe

From my peerless curiosity

Rejoice, oh companions, oh friends

I have found the heart of courage

and though the fearless are fearful

I shall be lion, prince, and jester for you   

[Myself]

See?
That
That right there is my problem.

I want to open up and effect the people around me.
I do
Really.

I want to say something
Anything!
and for someone to hear and reflect

And I'm so tired of opening up
I'm so dead inside from giving
I've given everything but my heart

Is that what you want
Is that where my fault lies
No heart?

Because if so
What cruel bastards you are
For demanding so much of someone

Just to effect someone
Just to touch them for moment
They need my one and only beating heart

Why am I saying they?
It isn't they
It's you.

Reading this right now
You need to feel my heart
If there is any chance of you believing this

And I just can't give it to you
I don't know why
But I haven't figured out the means to.

So please
Have mercy on me
Because this isn't just a game

This is my life
I've said it in so many different ways
These words are me

Tell me you hear them
Say you reject them
Take my heart and I'll know I've done something important with it.

Have I done what I set out to do?
Have I effected you somehow?
Will I ever know?

Lost in the Fog

Where do we go?

Ahead is beyond our sight
And so is our way home

Where do we go?

When every path is blind
Kiss lady luck goodbye
And step into tomorrow

In a sea of lunacy
This is our lunar lullaby

Artistic Anchor

What we do as poets
Is find the rock that anchors our soul
Love
Hate
Hunger
Art
Apathy
Excitement
Bemusement

We take that simple
Yet concrete part of ourselves
And describe every angle of it
Every
Painstaking
Angle
Point of View
Side
Part
Piece

Until one day
We write the core of it
And it dies within us
Gone
Disappeared
Fled
Moved on
Has Become
Alive
On Paper

Then we wander aimless
Our anchor uprooted
Until we find
Another
And spend another lifetime

A Lost Piece of Me

A piece of me is missing

and it is never coming back

It's small and unimportant

But that is beside the point

We are created whole

With every part in unison

I have a lost a small part of me

What does that make me?

It was severed with a knife

It shrivelled and turned to dust

Where has it gone?

Where is that piece of me?

Has it connected to the universe?

As all energy does?

Has it founds its wandering way

To the heavens far above?

Though within a day or two

It will surely grow back

It wont be that piece of me

Not in all actuality

What is it that takes its place

What fraudulent piece of self?

It isn't I that exists there

But some extension of something else.

Perhaps this is what it means

To truly be alive

Shedding pieces of ourselves

Replacing them from inside

Becoming something not seen before

A patchwork of this and that

Scar tissue melding with scabs

Pink skin beside fresh wounds

Can I change the World?

All I want to do is change the world.

Not in any meaningful way
Not to any sort of paradise
Not to a place without pain
Not into anything else

I just want to prove it can be changed.

So men and women far greater than I
Can do things far greater than I
and Change the world in meaningful ways
and Do the things I'll never manage

Maybe the history books will keep
A little space for me at the bottom of the page
A footnote in the introduction
An honorable mention in the hall of fame

That says
This man proved it was possible
This man took the first step
He planted the seed

Now see what these OTHER guys did!

Pain is all we have.

Pain means your alive.
Keep breathing
though it hurts

Pain means your doing it wrong
Don't stop
Pain means your alive

Pain means its real
This isn't a game
This matters

Pain means you have fought
It'll still be there tomorrow
So keep up the fight

Pain means your alive
Even if you don't want to be

Pain is the question
You provide the answer

Like Father, Like Son.

Will you remember me as I leave for the woods?
Can you hold me in your head?
Is this old worn out self worth keeping
Tucked away safe in your memories?

When I light my life aflame
Will you respect that fire?
Will your arctic opinion douse my blaze
and leave me with only ashes?

Will my legacy be a thing of pride?
I don't need wealth or fame
I don't need the masses approval
I only want you to say yes.

Because my winding trail will take me far
And I will tread where you never wanted me to
But it is my journey and my destination
Please don't make me ashamed

Two lives that are alike in dignity
I learned my faults from you
Just as you taught me
All my strengths