Midnight Fever

At the soft darkness outside cast a simple glance

Just one look for your mood you enhance

Still awake and busy or more like starting

Because all day you walk around sleeping

But now in the depth of the night

Where almost every soul is tucked in, out of sight

Your music turns back up from its earlier silencing

Your mind now reels and is racing

Who says the night is dead?

Who prefers the bright morning instead?

Who fears its endless jaws?

Who takes apart its beauty and finds flaws?

They are at loss because they have not lived

They expect each aspect to give, give, give

They have yet to be awakened by their own drive

They have yet to catch midnight fever or catch alive

Don't Look Now

Don’t you dare look now

But you wipe the anticipation from your brow

You’re in for a nasty surprise

This was such a lovely disguise

You twist and turn awaiting the worst

Soundtrack fit for movies burst

Timing hilarious if it weren’t for the situation

Why do all the clichés have such complication?

Don’t you dare take a peek

But you can’t help it and you seek

You’re in for it; don’t say there was no warning

It has been divine, but now strikes the mourning

You spin around in circles in search

In a movie view from a high up perch

Entertainment galore it if weren’t happening to you

Why does all the drama have to come true?

Don’t look now, but it’s too late

It’s all relationships formed of love and hate

Lucky if you’d ever get out from down under

All the deceit you’ve laid out for yourself and all other

You found it now, but you regret ever looking

Don’t you wish your life weren’t so hooking?

But all of those fairy tales and curses that were not

Supposed to be real are the realities you’ve fought

Don’t look now is a warning and a trap

You knew it all along and one day would snap

Isn’t it such a pretty paradox?

Trapped in your own fantasia box

Magnetized and chasing an escape

That never keeps its ever-altering shape

Let the plotline play out role after role

And what was all laughs and play shall take its final toll

Confidante

I want to be the one you come to

In your time of need, want, pain, and bliss

I want to be the one you trust true

In all times whenever and whatever it is

No matter what, I’ll be here

No matter what they think and say

I’ll never turn my back, my dear

I’ll never leave and walk away

I’m here as long as you wish for me

I’m here each and every step of the way

We’ll fall once, twice, a million times to be

We’ve met and are, now I’m here to stay

As a genuine friend ought

I’m putting my heart and trust in you

Not stressing when we may have fought

Because that’s not all we’ve been through

Each walk down a separate trail

We may seem to split apart and forgotten

But don’t let these illusions blur and prevail

We lasted and shared all treasured and rotten

Decades or seconds when you want to start

I’ll be open and sitting here still

With ready arms and a steady heart

Let your reality, thoughts, and tears spill

Cry and rant until no more can come

And although I cannot do much but listen,

I’ll do what I can to keep hearing your heart’s drum

Because your smile and life makes everyday glisten

With each breath since we met

Our futures have been intertwined

My purpose has been set

Because I’m promising, signed

Hearing I’m your confidante makes my lifetime

And it sets me at ease knowing you’d be mine

Letters Awry

Another glance back to another

Dance back to another

Chance back to the way it was

Eager for love

Also for life

Hoping that the beginning didn’t

Rear such a suffering distance

Together for once blunt

More is undone at the hunt

Now it’s become clear

In the eyes of fear

Looking within to outside

Younger days of now seem pastime

War of the soul

Angels and demons combine

Null at the brink and toll

Each drawn then shrunken behind

Yearning, feeling nauseous

Afraid of being looked down upon

Masking any and all promiscuous

Kicking away that devil’s spawn

Verifying what has been isn’t what is

Justifying who, what, when, where, why

Worrying something lies amiss

Moreover standing at the ready, sly

Never ending peace, angst, terror, bliss

Recording decisions and contradictions awry

In Elsewhere

Lockets of our entirety

Clasped and closed

Rusted shut internally

Such a power posed

An ability to remember

To keep memories kept always

An ability to forget altogether

To lock horrors away

Where are our worries?

Where are our antics?

Where are our life fees?

Wherever we would like to pick

In elsewhere if we shall indeed insist

Elsewhere is here if we choose it to exist

New Horizon

Endings rarely wanted

Kicked about and put off

Not allowing stops haunted

At them you simply scoff

Better off living in familiar safety

Being constant and forever young

Where you know each and every

Where you can try blocking what stung

But covering up and burying reality

Faking until you yourself believe

Does not work as well as thought out to be

Pretending while your heart grieves

But a new horizon is upon us and spreading

That sun scorching lies is now setting

Dreamwake

In memory of Doug Uselton; you are dearly missed and your life celebrated. RIP

Just the other day, I had seen you jubilant and proud

Just the other day, I heard your voice bellowing and loud

Just the other day, I didn’t think twice about what was to come

Just the other day, I thought to the sounds of the raining drum

I thought it was just yet another day bestowed

An eerie feeling of worry washes over me

A knowing feeling fills me and those around

But we shrug it off

And we tell ourselves otherwise

It is just another day

And another day is to come

But we are called in

Confused, we follow

Step by step towards our seats

Unaware of what was to come

Taking our seats still like any day

We quiet down and face towards the front

Then is when reality hits

We are told, we could no longer be in the shadows

Ignorance swiped to make way

For knowledge and acknowledgement

Silent gasps, teary stares, breathless sobs

Embraces around long and tight

Wishing to hug away the pain and injustice

It wasn’t meant to be this way

Crying and shaking, words barely audible

In person and in spirit

We comfort and need comfort

Awaking the next day hoping it was all a dream

But reality stays a truth

And in our dreamwake we need to realize

That each day is not just another day

Cherish your moments

Cherish your friends

Cherish your family

Cherish strangers

Because everything around you is beautiful

And you should not wait until it is too late to realize

And life goes on, but memory lasts longer

Legacy holds and love holds further

Do not despair and feel disheartened

Do not deny and feel distraught

Reasons though unseen or seemingly unjustifiable

Exist amongst us, despite existing unanswerably

Celebrate life that was and is

Forever and to eternity

Staring at Corners

Knowing life’s wandered far

Knowing death has come to where you are

Learning the things potpourri

The living weren’t to ever see

Learning of before the birds and the bees

Learning of after catastrophes

Staring blankly at that single spot

Certain that certain things just can’t be bought

In that silence and solitude

A smile breaks the mood

A single smirk

On your face, it shall lurk

Timid and strong

You fit yet don’t belong

Captive yet free

Blind and yet you can see

A mass of contradictions

As you lie there without restrictions

What had always held you down

Seems insignificant this time around

Staring at corners

Wary of mourners

Because death shouldn’t be feared

As you know once your mind was cleared

The pulling at your heart

The worries from the start

The questions in your mind

The problems you left behind

The ticking of the clock

The future you must walk

The walls and ceiling meet

The embrace become your corner sweet

Backed up against it

You are split

Banished to it

You are unfit

But from where you lie

Staring at it by and by

You are stronger than you’ve ever been

Feeling no regret nor chagrin

At the time which you should be the weakest

You finally understand the deepest

Staring at corners still

You have regained your will

As death encroaches

A new life approaches

A light for your darkest hours

No need for tears and bundles of flowers

Because in this moment

You know your life was potent

And you smile and close your eyes

And you and those corners say your goodbyes

As Seasons Change

Oranges, browns, blues, greens

The spectrum of the year

And the pantomime of its seasons

The sounds of ocean breeze

Mix with the sweet showers of rain

The clash of thunder

Booming with the gongs and drums

The whistle of birds

Entangled with the sounds

Of wind chimes and glass bottles

The melodies of the wind and world file in

Filling the soul with passion and freedom

Cleansing past pain to dull

And rejuvenating life in inspiring ways

Stronger with each turn of the cycle

And each month past

Following and leading through the seasons

Heart’s song weaves through

Sweet smells with each note

Memories created and unfolded

Silent understanding in each

Tight embrace,

Light touch,

Quiet glance,

Loud laugh,

And fond seconds past

Watching and loving

What many either cannot or will not

Wafting in the beauty of the seasons

Wishing naught despite what

Wandered through the past

Wallowing in regret won’t make amends

Work forward and find yourself again

The rain showers pounding sweetly

Upon water, pavement, and brick

Singing stormy stories

As thunderclouds hover

Dispensing thunder’s tremors and tales

Lighting lashes the length of the sky

Bolting brightly, breaking by the grey

As people hide under their covers

I sing with the song and run outside

Arms thrown wide, head thrown back

Laughing as I spin

Loving as I live

Circles upon circles

Twirling and dancing

Insane and perfect in every way

Ripples trail along the surface

Cold air nips at my nose and fingertips

Water droplets all around

Atmosphere clean and anew

Wind whips my hair

Behind my head then

Across my face

Hands move to push it back

To little avail

Let it be and let all be

Listen instead and focus instead

On the secrets of the breeze

Listen to the sounds of the seasons

Shifting each second

Taste the colors as they melt to one

Creating new days overlapping old

Feel the difference of the atmosphere

Morphing to something better

Observe the storms and winds ahead

Challenging your every step

And listen to that song of your soul

Moving to the changes of the seasons

Sun

Bright sun shining

Lighting our way

Brightening our day

Giving us life

All on Earth rely on thee

Shining light and heat

Trees and flowers,

Vines and plants

All use thee to flourish and grow

From flora,

Comes oxygen

For animals,

And humanity

To breathe and live

Thus without thee,

None can be

Torpedo

Birdless skies cloudy and grey

Until a single torpedo flits past

One lone sparrow darting above

Cutting through the heavens

Wings moving flutter fast

Suddenly pressed tight close

Shooting through the air bullet brave

Slicing through air smooth as water

Out of the twigs and leaves

Away from the feather padding

No more regurgitation

Goodbye feeding

Pushed and shoved

Prodded and snipped

Tough love and what has to be done

Hard as it is, it is inevitable

And the image in mind

Morphs externally

But captures the true soul,

The real life struggles and cycle

Of all life

Of not only the flocks of birds

Of not simply humanity

Of an often incomplete group

Animals branch out

Down lines of ancestral roots

Sprouting buds of floral décor

Growing fruit amongst the leafy green

Becoming diverse and unique

Aligned through a common point

Invisible to the naked eye

Solid to the mental scope

Pushing through each day, facing each blow

Looking towards the newer

Looking back to the familiar

Pushing out the nest, facing nothing but now