in the half death
I had lines
profound rhymes
in the half death
in the half death
the world burned
my thoughts turned
in the half death
in the half death
monsters came
exposed my pain
in the half death
in the half death
my mind would break
and so i’d wake
from the half death
into half life.
burn away all truth
what rises from its ashes
will be no phoenix
like fallen leaves which in my garden dance
you bring to me the smile
that merely comes with happenstance
oh solitary guardian of the darkened rose
from the highest boughs you visit me
scarlet dressed in grey of Autumn’s throes.
daughter of chaos
clad in the darkest nightmares
she glows as madness
the moon tells her tales
written in tarnished shadows
eternal stories
seek not civil wars
fought between the head and heart
have them sheath their swords
the day is silent
’tis quieter than last night
and my restless dreams
white aster flowers
skip along the garden’s edge
nymphs of earth and air
stricken are the fallen leaves
yet not with existential pain
though unlike us who Autumn fear
with joy that life will rise again
in glory be their golden ends
as they become one with all things
no sacrifice is theirs to spend
they resurrect as doth the Spring
she falls lightly on my lips
though unsolicited
each kiss instilled with promise
an elemental recipe as old as time
I open myself to her quenching embrace
and taste life.
the blighters rock 