Poems

Slippery Slope

I’m singing the same song again

It’s not my fault but I re-begin

Intro now, chorus, refrain

Rise above where I’d once lain

This song’s a sad one, it always is

I wipe eyes dry, relive that kiss

Hold on because there’s nothing else

Descend into my own personal hells

Can I sever the line to the anchor I love?

The surface gets higher and higher above

The dark is hard and metal and cold

It reeks of despair with a hint of mold

Just I am here with the corpses of hope

The path to the bottom’s a slippery slope.

Dreaming

My eyes now dry my head held high

I’m lost inside an amber sky

I need no one that is my vow

I tread the clouds and take my bow

Please think of me is my last line

My voice fades and I take what’s mine

The clouds turn back to sultry gray

And leave me to do what I may

I wipe sleep off my weary mind

My eyes not dry my head not high.

Deserted Sand (Sonnet)

Barren and dry and arid, desolate

Lonely it seems but we’re all ensnared here

Quietly we speak all tugging Fate’s ear

Chasing the shadows, my own silhouette

There are no trees here, only mounds of sand

That keep ticking, always ticking away

They never cease and they cannot delay

As silence keens mournfully from Nowhere

Remember the time we all had time?

To squander is to lose the game called Life.