Blink

From dust
To sleep
To waking hours
The shutters close every second
Recycling your view

Lifetimes spent in fits of darkness
What do these blinds really do
Hiding visions of the future
Or tools to fix the past
Portals to these neverworlds
Glimpsed through one-way glass
Seen and then forgotten
In a literal blink of an eye
The spaces in between
Are what I'm keen to understand
Gone until the next time
Gone within a span

I am just getting around to feeling
Utterly and completely lost
The darker shades of destiny
Stay floating at the bottom
Waves pressing on the bubble
Rising by any means
Crawling to the surface
Tearing at the seams

Eyelids like low bids
On this one reality
That was once concrete and cemented
Struggling to make it back
Eyes opening to inconsistencies and
Cracks in the facade
Holes in the veneer
Salted poison in this droplet
One might call a tear
Rolling down a cheek
Sourced from a sealed window to the soul
I am still lost
This escapade will take its toll

In this propagandistic sphere
My bubble is shrinking ever so near
The infallible crumble
The blinders tremble in fear
What seemed like a second
Turned into more
Forgetting the surface
I am too far from shore
My vision is darkness
Heartbeating, the chore
And then, there I am
Back like before
And all in the blink of an eye

Traveller's Confession

Reckless vagabonds
On the road to damnation
Stay twisting in the wind

Disappointing prophecies
Fulfilled with time to spare
This life was forfeit
We were always headed there
Forks in the road
That converged into one
Still twisting in the wind
Hanging in the sun
Deals brokered by a man in black
Our friend in function
Our foe in fact
An obvious endpoint
On this roguish adventure
Vagabond choices
Picked our route every time
X marked the spot
From A to B we drew the line
We saw what we could
From ocean, dust, to pine
We licked the curves of Route 1
On the California coast
Breathed the Tuscan gold
With all we could hope for
We stood atop the world
And saw that it was flat
We walked the grounds of forests
Whose trees stood to the sky
As if they were pillars
Keeping space from collapsing in on us
We wept
Underneath a green twisting beyond
And lost ourselves
In the great falling forever

We were never as we appeared
Spinning lies to control fear
Weaving deceptions
To shape perceptions
Holding candles up to these dead men
To see what's left after rotting ends
We lived in confusion
Contradictory amusement
Perpetuated by a ubiquitous force
A constant abusement

Help me
I am drowning
Our adventures, they are crowning
For now until the foreseeable
These ending terms
Are less than agreeable
Holding hands at the grand chasm
Of these deserted lands
I just wanted you to know
I still had fun

Guardians of the Long Forgotten

The tired call
Of these unreasonable apologetics
Stretch on long after the dust has settled

Defending barren fortresses
With purposeful determination
From phantom spectres
With familiar faces
Custom made
In these personal factories of guilt

They stand guard atop
The remnants of a war
Raging from the past
Taking bullets and blades
That already hit their marks

Keeping them alive
Through sheer force of will and memory

I can feel your agony
From a continent away

You can move on
No further than they
An avenging vendetta
Posed to relics
Aged to dust
Your feet have set planted
Something must come of this
Or like well oiled rust
You have waited stagnant in decay
Taking cups of water from the ocean
You did nothing on this day

Outside

Let me in

I am ill equipped

Everyday I worry
I am falling apart
Loosely stitched seams
This is pain not art

Let me in

The cold is sapping my strength
I am ragged and disheveled
My suffering goes on at length

I am a bird with no flight
And the ground is crumbling beneath my feet
I am looking to tether myself
To some kind of something
Otherwise
I am just falling through space

Let me in

Logistics are the soul crushing
Weights of adulthood
Senseless action
The sole outlet of contents under extreme pressure
I fear the passionless bitterness
That spawns from repeated failure

Let me in

Please

Verse: In So Many Acts

ACT I

So much
So far
Painful beauty
In the world we are
Living like lonesome
Nomads
And fallen ones
These restless soles
Yearn for
Western gold
And baking suns

Tearaway straps
On the shoulders of the wandering
The inclination towards stasis
Frequently a haunting theme
That burns the shackles on my back
Wait for winds of change
The strong will react
In these hollowed cities
The strong will attack
Outcomes uncertain
The decks will stack

ACT II

A series of innovations
Followed by a return to form
Critical mass
Today's norm
The loving landscapes of nature
Divided by man
On this side of the gate
I've raised a hand
To signal an army
Armed with more than enough
To win a one-sided battle
On the scale of legends and stuff
Land of the lesser than?
Bred by the best of them
We are the strong
And we fight for the shifting winds

ACT III

Thus the battle rages on
Through bureaucratic blood
And bone shattering stone
Fighting for better
Fighting for home

ACT IV

Settling on the dusk of day zero
An end of an era
A goodbye to heroes
The intolerable acts
Of your comrades in arms
Terroristic tendencies
We have raised the alarms
Sit down
Behave
Do as we say
We are your protectors
This is the only way
Relax and inhale
Your insurrection has failed
No more of this
Your chances have staled
Quiet your minds
Step back in your lines
Pay your respects
Straighten your spines
Our order remains uninterrupted
The constituents that have
Become corrupted
Were removed and disposed of
And wiped clean from the slate
These flights of fancy
Must be crushed with dead weights
This is how it will be
From this point on
You cannot be trusted
You're too far gone
Speak your goodbyes
To the setting sons
And now here we find ourselves
At the dawn of day one