Hello World

Hello World, you can have my hopes and dreams; you killed them before they were born. You robbed me of them before I even knew them. You took my could be's.

Now I stand before you bereft and naked, barren of soul and will.

Aimless I come to you and ... die with each step.

Why did you kill me? What was my crime?

You came to me as a lover in my youth; tempting me with candied futures. You led me with golden dreams of varied sort, and now you betray me.

Give me back the Dream. Replace the veil you took from me so stealthily and cruelly. Restore to me my innocence.

Please.

All you have left me is the hollow truth of now; a horror I cannot abide.

Hello World, close my eyes.

Oh, it's you again

Curiosity my old foe
How quickly you defeat me
Though I try, I cannot fight
You are like a beau
You know what makes me me
And entices wrong from right

Why can I not defeat you
I only want to know
What can I ever do
to escape this mental limbo

I cannot win, that is certain
So I'll tame you ere I'm bitten

Stop

I stopped thinking sometime last year
I stopped my hopes, my joys, my cheer
I stopped dreaming and gave up hope
I stopped striving and now only cope
I stopped it all, the growth, the living of life
I stopped the battle, the trying, the strife
Stopped it, Halted, Ceased to be
This is my path, Land of the free
I stopped it,
And it stopped me.

Shadows of heartbreak

Shadows of heartbreak
from chances untaken
dance in my mind
in the quiet of night 

Pains of remorse
from love unexpected
burns my cheeks
hidden by the rain 

Shadows of heartbreak
Pains of remorse
Agony, tears, and sadness
consume my day 

If only courage had
lived within me
I would have been your
Lancelot 

Shadows of heartbreak
from chances untaken
tear at my soul
in the still of the night 

Pains of remorse
what could have been...
what could have been...

Shattered dreams and broken wings

Shattered dreams and broken wings
the whole world 's comin' down on me
broken glass and torn hopes
bloody oblivion, set me free!
battle weary and time worn
life itself steals my breath
faltered heartbeats and stumbled steps
fighting slowly the embrace of death

Shattered dreams and broken wings...

fighting slowly the embrace of death
life itself steals my breath
bloody oblivion, set me free!
the whole world 's comin' down on me

Shattered dreams and broken wings...

Splice the words

Spite and venom, demon's tongue!
Evil hateful cutting words.
Cries for solace gone unheard.
In your anger and your malice
you place yourself in ivory palace
never thinking how it's made
you with your heart of jade.
You scoff, you scorn, you kick, you scream
you rip asunder and break the dream.
You break my arm. You twist my limb.
Stealing breath from her and him.
And now you would reign supreme,
or so it does ever seem.
But this one thing you have not learned,
power can't be taken, it must be earned.
Split the hairs, splice the words
come back for seconds or even thirds.
But this I tell you and tell you true,
this dream will never be ruled by you.

Long ago

Surrounded by friends I sit alone
an ocean of force surrounds me
and yet seems to part around me
like soil does a stone

I can see the smiles, hear the laughs
and I think I can see through them
to the shadows that truly haunt them
then... then I see no one truly laughs

The darkness comes and consumes
corrupting all it touches
all powerful, all seeing, such is
the way of the dark as it presumes

I gave in long ago
I turned away and shut my door
I closed my eyes to sleep evermore
I was washed away . . . long . . . ago.

Lies Without, Within

I fear no horror of mortal hand
Nor twisted frame of mind
For me no Darkness can stalk the land,
Nor Dæmon so assigned,
I fear not what lies without,
But rather what lies within,
Be it a wicked shout,
Or some much darker sin.
For I’ve seen the Devil, yes
The ultimate evil deed.
It made my soul quite the mess
And sowed a lightless seed.
So I die and yet live,
My own... tortured... captive.

the dead mind

Oh Hades, thou of the damned tongue,
I command thee,
abjure thee,
take my soul.

The crafts of men have hid my words.
my soul is barren.
my grave is dug.
Take me. Take me whole.

Hades!
I command...
I implore...
take me...

What more can I endure?
What rictus smile?
What tortured drop of time?
No more.

Oh Hades, please, call with gilded tongue,
command me to thee,
free me,
take my soul.

Take the breath of life from my words.
the craft is barren.
the grave is dug.
Free me. Take my soul.

Hades!
Give command!
Do not ignore...
free me.

Cicero's virtues are too much to endure,
and the wise man's journey of a mile,
so I ask thee one last time,
and no more,

Hades! Free me!

Hump Day: A Seven Minute Tanka

I hear not a thing
my soul is tired and seeks sleep
creativity has died
silence reigns unthroned
Please, will the day never end?