Axiom

Harmonia

Such feelings…

Rapt and enveloped

By virtue of immersing feelings,

Kiss the sky

Reshape time

Journeying about dreams

A purity and divinity

Beyond all that can be fathomed

Most joyous were those moments

Beseeching our preservation

Lest we in this life undertake too much

Having loved too little,

Seemingly a dream

30 Doradus

Vaguely discernable in the distance,

The most striking arrivals

Are the easiest to recall

Alluring, unique…

There was a moment nothing had been closer

Familiar in every way,

Then slowly drifting away

Further distant

And gone completely

Axiom

Not all life inherits planets

Tell me your story

Tell me what became of the blank canvases

To what end did suffering justify the means

All that could’ve been done for love and compassion

In helping others

In requites

In treating others how you would like to be treated

What have you done to affect the outcomes

Would you erase, start anew

Always there will be choices

Even at the brink…

Reasons are given to reciprocate

Jessie Lee sitting by the window

When I remember you

I remember you sitting by the window

I want to see what’s truly there

Without change

Underneath your make-up

On the outside are barriers

On the inside we find our crux

Do we look or do we see… everything, everywhere

Will we ever understand

Will I ever see you

Have our senses betrayed us

Or have we betrayed our senses

Spanish Tiles 

It was slightly cold and foggy

Through a window I watched a woman pass by

She must have worn a thousand different faces

From a distance I could hear children playing

The hall was decorated in Spanish tiles

And each one to me was a different universe

Progressing and regressing in temporal tidal waves

My mind knew such thoughts

Of endless possibilities and limitless outcomes

Are we infinite creators of life and death, teachers, poets, and fools

Or are we on a ghost ship completely unaware we are ghosts

Again I hear the children’s laughter penetrating the brick walls

In this moment I knew the world eclectic, knew the veils and charades

Saw that every artery and every avenue run congruent

The Guernica painting hung high on the wall

The hall was decorated in Spanish tiles

Universes

There are universes

Distant and alongside us

Newborn and archaic

Massive and minute

They wander beside us, they pass through us

The light of a billion stars yet to be seen

Without shape

Without form

Yet tendrils intertwined in unison

Amongst a crowd as we meander unbeknownst

There are universes

So dear to us we couldn’t live without them

Only we realize it much too late

The past, and that yet to occur

Has been given to you in its entirety

No longer can we afford our eyes to belie our thoughts

Unmindful of the incurrences we accumulate

That we might apprehend that which lies before us

Blue Note  (For Jason Becker)

Two waves crashed together

As each droplet fell to sea, for a moment each glistened in the light

Though only a moment given

Bedazzling it was to behold, transfixed us it did

And in the silence that followed

Such grief took hold of me I could hardly contain

Such was the force taken over me I could not swallow

Nor be able to describe,

I hear your song now

It evokes spirals and swirls of all colors and shapes in my mind

Cast out light that shone between the clouds

Penetrated the sky, painted the horizon, and burned the ground

Let the hand that guides release its grasp now

Alas, let there be resolution

Let the music I hear rise

Like a blue note, ascending… blending into a blue sky

Vacant Mirrors

All that lies before us are vacant mirrors

For we do not see ourselves

Minions going in circles

Desperately searching, squinting, peering closer

Only to find the reflection of that behind us

We glance, then turn away

I’ve dreamt of light prisms glistening

Of souls and virtue

A likeness unseen

Not of the masses, but of you and I

Nebula

Colors splayed amongst the darkest blackness

An assortment of stars & shapes most oblique

A reach spanning light years across

These are the houses that hold my every thought of you

Though you seem as far away to me now as the nebulas

My mind knows such images of you

A star for you                                   

A star for me

How shall we ever fill the space between

To undertake the circumnavigation of the universe

The nebula knows distances so vast

It was long ago

We together clung, laughed, wondered

In every color

In every point of light

There you shall remain

In the Nebula

Where surely I am to follow

A quiet beyond the infinite

In chasms of a depth beyond imagination

I seek to know you

Olympus Mons

In the shadow of Olympus Mons

Gaze climbing upward

Ponder now,

What this would have looked like the day it was born

Imagine the unimaginable

Understand thoughts of the most unfathomable magnitude

Envision the creation of our greatest structures

Forged of manpower, enrichment, dreams

Think of what they came to mean

What was the affect they had on us

Wayward thoughts reveal an earth absent of man

Might the land end

The natural world unobstructed synthesizing its death and poisons

Free of the corruption of mankind

Free of mankind’s benefits

Of all lands and seas, through the whole of universes

Creations rise out from the soils

Of both mind and terrain,

Stargiven gifts bestowed upon us

What kind of world did we make

Dedicated to Eternity

Somewhere, in another life I am a child

Elsewhere, I am elderly man

Might we meet,

Might we cross on a summer street

All these experiences, people, feelings, emotions

Have shaped me, become me,

There is a part of me

That one day shall leave, shall no longer be me

And yet there is a part of me,

Existing somewhere that has yet to become me

On 42nd Street people come and go

How curious you are to me

You may never know

We’ve all had moments of joy we consecrate in our hearts

We all hold steadfast memories we cherish

How many lives did we fill with love

How many wars did we wage

The tears we’ve caused

The blood we’ve spilled

The love we shared

Just as you have wept, so have I

There are dreams and ambitions to which we all aspire

And what about you, my friend

You, my love

What would you say about me a thousand years from now

Maybe the world works in ways we could never possibly understand

Maybe when my soul was made,

A piece of mine mixed with yours

The fabric, of the sinews of the universe connect me to everyone of you

For we are all one and the same

Yet radiant and unique,

Living amongst the same stars

Moving about the same galaxies