Poems from within "A Lighter Darkness"

Pure Poetry for the Hungry Mind...

A Man said to an insect....

Buzzing by my ear; whispers of life, flight and fear
years and years of endless tears;
it sounds to me like unholy chatter.
I see it, I hear it, as I cower beneath the ladder.
As I swat, I swat with hate,
its preplanned death I anticipate.
It seems to know what’s on my mind
out of breath and out of time.
Bringing forth rage from my spine,
as I twitch and swing against the vine;
all I wanted was to run through the lawn
yet it insisted on buzzing its song.
My ears do not want to hear
while its inevitable end is drawing near.
It fly’s up to my face
with a glance of shear embrace
I hear its voice, its thoughts and history
the life it speaks of is absolute mystery.
Through it I hear tales of colonization
anthill’s, wasp’s nests, and beehives.
It tells me tales of declaration
wars, death, life, and the lies.
The lies we tell, it relays to me
our constant flow, of dishonesty.
It buzzes, “you create electric light’s of blue,
gathered for our execution,
we get as close as we can for you
our death sentence is electrocution.”
I scream at the pest, “how dare you accuse me
I do not understand the centuries of lies in which you speak,
your complaint, and concern I can clearly see.”
I have to ask, “why must you bug me?”
It buzzes, “Because no one ever listens to me”.
“We travel many miles, like enchanted being’s
crawling, squirming, nesting, flying.
We merely wish to give you greeting’s
yet, we always end up dying.
The vehicles you travel in are somehow magically shielded,
we fly in for a closer look, and then become defeated.
Defeated by your invisible barrier,
We’re beaten, broken and bleeding”.
Be gone with you, I say with a smack
I corner the buzzing pest; to me it turns its back.
I take my palm and drop it forth.
Using all of my strength for what it’s worth.
To rid the world of your kind
is definitely the first thing on my mind.
To you I am a god, or a reasonable giver of life
Your time is at an end, for your death is worth the strife.
it buzzes, “Kill me if you must” it sighs,
“but remember this before I die
your time will come; your life will give,
and all of my kind will feast on you in order to live.
Your rotting decaying carcass will be their home
and be their dinner bar, in which they’ll roam”.
With my last nerve I snuffed it out.
The poor mindless pest never took the time to shout
I felt like a king, a ruler, the one to pull the switch.
As I examined its lifeless body, my thirst had become quenched.
Many years have passed since that mighty day.
I’m losing my strength and losing my way.
While I’m strapped to my bed, holding on with what I can,
pushing forward because I am man.
As the spider above me drops closer by my cheek
and a fly zips by to take a peek.
It dawned on me that the insect was right.
Now I will become dinner for his kind tonight.

Time

The flavor I savor
a raw flesh tone,
brilliance in agony
has me chilled to the bone.
My Hell on earth
places me in this frame of mind;
I'm sentenced to death
among my fellow mankind.
Shackled to me is my ability to hope
ripped from me is my willingness to cope.
A blackened high tide consumes my being
my resistance is futile why bother fleeing?
My silent screams awaken me from within
my picturesque life has come to an end.

A Child

As a child I knew, older now I once grew.
Trading youthful magic for fact, no trade backs.
In innocence I've been bred.
Willing to live until I'm dead.
Making my way until my days are threw.
As Mother Nature smiles down, the face of God shows all around;
Just to show me that there's still hope, there's still truth...

Flower Flower

Who is that outside?
A girl with her raincoat on,
wondering why her daddy's gone,
flower flower in the lawn sings to her a lonely song....
An angry child never seen in a lonely house,
and all of the while
I look for thee...

Sit Alone

Within my shell, I sit alone.
My life is a passage, my personal zone.
Now that my brittle hands cradle broken glass;
of what was everything.
Stuffed beneath the clouds.
It will come to pass, an allegiance to God
Where all blessings flow, look upon a face
with no failure to show.
Walk in this trance, that we call our life
Total, and complete serenity for which we all strife.

Numb

A voice from the minds abyss.
Screams from a far, beats a broken heart.
Miles away, memories apart.
Obviously nothing to miss.

Baffled Dismay

These days they smile and fake a wink.
Like so many of those, who like to think.
They are better to be what they see.
Than for I to be something other than me.

Burden

Now that mythology has become our own haven of falsehood.
We can clearly see how technology, has shattered our fantasy.
Drinking from the cup of logical thinking;
Seems our brew has been poisoned.
Poisoned with lies of evolution.
Poisoned with confusion of procreation.
Funny how one big bang put us all here.
Here with our free lives, our free thoughts.
Spewing out with individuality.
Free to feel the same, yet very differently.
Oh the burden of being human.

Seeking

Silky sunshine destroys the rain.
The repetitive madness, on my windowpane
Rest seems so far from me.
The endless days, delivers dishonesty.
My eyes; they twitch to the sound.
A constant patter, the same lame putter.
What we almost lost, we finally found;
with arms that reach like the love of a Mother.
Breastfed the hopes of oblivion, swallow then spit
succulent and warmth receiving, tuck yourself in.
The mindless society beckons me to join,
sentences me to Hell.
In my minds eye I see the truth, I speak the lie.
I relish the thought, the taste the smell.
two worlds colliding, it's hopeless to try.

Her lips whisper something

Miles of smiles, years of hate;
they've left me with this feeling,
I'm feeling irate.
Willing to dance my dance with the dead.
To honor the departed,
with this voice in my head.

Tied to me

A tie that binds, the knot that's tied.
Memories that I can't wait to remember.
It's always warm when you're around.
Yet when you're gone,
I die like the leaves of September.
I will never find a substitute,
For the love you give to me.
They could tie me down for days, for years.
In you I will be free.

Moon Java

Flare the fool moon, fear to lust the taste.
How all the madmen dwell
smiling in their own waste.
Emitting an aroma of Hell.
Denying the possible, admitting the impossible.
So save yourself, and see how they run.

Dumbie

Too forget my memories, but wishing to recollect
Wanting to fall in love with nothing.
When something is there.

Spool

Fly angel fly, with dreams of a queen.
A hyper notion, too swim in your ocean
so deep, so blue. Your eyes so true.
Although I move, without emotion.
Faith relates to sights unseen.

Empty vein

Happiness is ignorance, although genius is irrelevant.
Capitalize what I despise, in order from A to Z.
If love is not a verb, and gold is not an element.
We'll live to die, not to realize that the truth is what we seek.

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