I AM

Love is born and soon
He learns to run and play
Then he learns the names for everything
But when he shines poetic
People turn away
Banished like the existential king

I am as you've never seen me
It's the reason I have flown
And if you've ever wondered
This is the only soul I own

Let him paint with colored words
In fevered sleep
The solitary minstrel of the mind
“The clouds are dripping honey
In the southern seas...
Where you can see the sunset
Turn to wine“

Push them away, the pedestrian things
There is too much world to know
Ride the cannonball over the wall
I feel you give off some light
Thought I'd let you know
It's a sign, you could shine

 

KALEIDOSCOPE

Here it comes, fever running
Talk to me, flying free
Close my eyes, it's automatic
I'm not afraid

Sounds like a full symphony
Letting you wash over me
If my hands can pull you closer
Maybe I'll stay

In my Kaleidoscope
I am Romeo
Jump in wonderland
I am a drowning man
Then the rhythms come to life
In the gardens of midnight

See you there, not like normal
Speak in tongues, stream emotion
Unconscious state
Riddles making sense to me

You are the drug, it overpowers
Naked in these silent hours
A virtual original
Splashed in color

Leave too soon
Leave me wanting
Break the rhyme
It tastes like water
Decorate the underbelly
Splashed in color...

 

COVER ME

Hello from the misfit brigade
I see things in unusual ways
Like the sparrow that lives in the spotlight
Learns to fly as he dodges the cars
Something's creeping in
There a whispering madness here
All around, don't believe your eyes
You see a rip in the silence

Now the river is too wide
But I want the other side
Under me, this is the way we begin
I don't live within your walls
And I have no faith at all
To cover me, this is the way we begin

High above all the billboards show
What I should want if I'm in the know
It's like everyone lives in a spotlight
But nobody feels like a star
And distractions they abound
Like ecstasy passing around
The affliction's incomplete
When you speak in the silence

In the still of the night you lay bargaining
Letting God hear your plans
Aren't you suffering
The prodigies shouldn't have to surrender

POOL OF ECHOES

I remember when she was
When she was nothing more
Than a backwards glance
When no one else was listening
Then we smiled awhile and
Talked of ice cream flavors and
What we'd do about the things
We could not understand

There were days that we would sit
And just hallucinate
And all the passers by
Would melt into the afterglow
Then we'd go home at night
And shake off all the coverings
So that we could get
At all the treasures down below

Wondering what you'd say
Then it finds me
Pieces of you still hang in the air
Pool of echoes
I'm floating from memory
I still want to know
I still want to find out

The only music were the songs
The ones that spoke to me
About the reaching out
Replacing all the trivial
With the riddles and the colors
Of the wondrous
I still taste the lips
That prophesied like Gabriel

Upon her perfumed confidence
I'd balance questions in defense
Just for the way she used to bend
The things I'd send

SEED THE SKY

Apprentice ready, master comes
That's the way the story runs
And I believed
Father is your vow alive
Mother do you have the time?
This is when we leave

Seed the sky and watch the rain
Silver running finger-paints wash away
All the while still waiting
For someone to believe

Skipping rocks off of the earth
Off the edge with no concern
Where they fall they fall
Wonder if there's someone left
A misfit sage with secrets kept
And I await the storm

Black ink and author offerings
I'm surrounded by these things
but no one speaks

 

MAGNIFIED

I used my city key
Cold people looked so pretty
The things you see
When you put your gun away

High on the tower walls
The angels waved because
They knew that I had found
The silver chain of love

So what if your God is sleeping?
What if he can't make the scene OK?
Are you gonna lay down brother
Live forever down in the fold?

I had a fleeting glimpse
I heard every wish
I was the L.A. Quadraphonic wave

So like a drug to me
The little honesties
Connect the people
There are no strangers here today

I'm everyone, anyone
I can see inside
For all this time
Yours was mine
We are magnified

DANDELION WINE

Bitter dawn and I am standing
Frozen vapor desperation
Dangerous wide empty space
I always fall asleep
Something's coming down the road
Gold shining happiness machine
I never noticed it before
It hits me like a storm
The cellar door into the ivy shade
The corridor to liquid, silent, loud explosion

Drink the Dandelion Wine
And wash away the tears of winter
See Aurora Borealis
Feel the bright surrender come again

Swallow quickly, summer tingles,
Dizzy sparkles, you smell the sweetness,
Grass-stained hands hold butterflies
Above the drifts of snow
Tugging at the fringes
Of your long ago unclouded mind
Something's bounding, laughing
Leaping here and then away
A photograph, a child asks
Just let it go, please remember let it go

Come close to me, I have never seen before
It reappears within the falling years

 

EVERYBODY'S HERE

It did occur to me
That nothing is free
Everything ends, everyone leaves
No revelation there
But it seems kind of strange
That what I've become
So quickly will come all undone

Light surrounds me
Angels in my room
What have I to fear?
The game is over
Gone is the mystery
Everybody's here

No brilliance left behind me
No carvings in stone
My futile designs
I'll leave them at home
Escape is sanctuary
But what do I know
As much as the next
We'll be the new boys in school
In a moment or two

There's no way but the last way now

And when it all unfolds
We'll forget who we are
You're telling yourself
That it won't matter then
But it sure matters now

 

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