Free to decide.

A tub full of memories,

A head full of tunes,

A hand reaching Heaven,

A place beyond Truth.

Darkness reflects the light

A cove wherein

Lies

In sighs

Upon

A bed

A dreamer

Anemic

A window

Where sunlight shines

Through the smoke

Of yesterday’s

Bong rips.

Leading me away, -- astray
From customary bonds --
You felt it, too --
I could not contain
The flame
Of eccentricity
Burning through my nature

As much as any other

I repudiate the child within

With subtle, dark addictions

Tucked between our smiles

And admonitions;

Where the light

That world of love

Acceptance

I've been sold

Pertains,

Bewildered,

Grasping for,

Crawling in its mud

I find myself

Without your hands

Oasis.

Inwardly disfigured

From the Frame,

The substance pulls

Potential space

Apart,

Attempts a social

Adaptation,

Obfuscates

Or hides;

These are the modes

We've made,

The pastimes

Of our world;

Our luxuries of pain.

Had been smaller
When esteemed your size;
Had been dimmer when
Your fire
Didst inspire
These then lowly eyes.

keen dream steam cream seen obscene scene,
 in my mind, in your tail tale
              shower classroom confession
      eruption erection --

monument moment         immortal

You see what I cannot.
I turned away, and you looked on
To meet my returning eyes.

A shadow
Anchors into my dreams
And floats above me.

You call out to me.

You call me
From the dark,

Call me
From my Self:

"Let this be my bridge...
 Let my voice carry to you
 A wish you never knew."

"Original sin" was a

disobedience

             of that

   perfect orientation

 which
           compelled

humanity

  to walk

the path             towards


     Love's
                    infinity.

I learn of my faults
Everyday
Blessed am I
Can ask forgiveness
And live to know
Thee.

A simple heart
A practiced mind

Cuts like a knife.

Faith gives me
The courage to take risks
Greater than before;

To keep hope
Despite the deeper falls;

To know I'm not the only one
In pain;

To forgive myself for
Causing grief
Through pride and vanity;

To carry love out of the dark.

A Firework,
Once lit,
To blaze an eternal, single
Constellation
In the darkness.

A scientist
In solitude;
An artist,
An actuary;
Dreaming the Big Bang.

Life is
Initial ecstasy.

Death,
Eternal bliss.

Humility in
Patience, then.

If justice lives beside who
Love deserved pain

This valiance prove enough

To save

But one.

The people,
So often near,
Sometime the heart
Endeared to know,
Eventually
Disappear.

To not be the victim.
To have no friends.

Polite, shy, awkward:
Subtle poison, anti-cloak.

I hid from light
Till blind;
To walk
In darkness,
Still.

I dance in the sunlight,
Unstoppable, wild;
Disturbing the waters below.

If Heaven withdraws,
I'll lie down,
Reverent,
Where the dark waters stir.

"Faith is the substance
Of things hoped for,
The evidence
For things not seen."