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Musicheart

Trying to break my flowers
What’s your astrology?
Can I get the digital code
To your heart ‘cause
I don’t care about your phone

What would it take to
Open you up
Do you have a cause
That I could orient?

Metal vibes and hard hearts
Won’t get you too far
But I’ve got a car
If you want a ride
Outside of this
Whatever this is

It could be heavy
I can also picture it soft
At least ninety ways to get there

May be sixty exits
If you need an escape
I have this thing for music
And also you

So many words but not
Enough verbs on the planet
In any language to say it all
So I stand and stare
Looking for twitches
Bright lights shine down

Black and blue clouds
Overhead alive pupil’s glimmer
Piercingly blue and
Black from shadows
Of numinous moonlight

Wake up tomorrow with you

Remembering to smile in moments
Especially with people that don’t do it
Albeit in the exception of who I am
Don’t freeze smile back meters
From your face eyes sparkling at me
Smile smile smile don’t forget your head
My heart is in my throat I’m in awe
Of this moment when you are captured
Here with me there is no other time
Observing your hands I notice no ring
Also the shoes on your feet
I see the locs underneath your hat curling
Around the edges of your neck
I see you working but you smile at me
Don’t freeze smile back at him
Broken to behave apparently
How did I forget how to be instantaneously
Most undoubtedly appropriately
Creating yourself as the best life
There you go speeding down the
Highway of life Lundi à Vendredi
Grunting out loud side swipe
Punch the air run my hand through
My hair and think about it being yours
Pretty like a statue

Hightech

It’s hard not to eat my appetite
It’s controlling me but I stopped it
Very futuristic the message is
No consuming is necessary just
A special kind of sunglasses
For communication and making love
With our hands simply by touching
Alone is enough to send it home
When you can’t resist
What comes out of your lips
Turn of the century twister
Pull the cords through the elastic band
No need to say a word because
Everything is heard learning to speak
With your mind takes time but
Proves possible holding onto
Your corner of the universe
Even though none of it belongs to you
Two separate camps
Two different worlds
What do we subscribe to?
We take it with us or you are
Leaving it behind bury it with you
Like the Egyptians did for all time
Still the truth is unearthed
Every speck has been acquired
Two phases of this new life
Even a true purge is only
Removing it all including the kitchen sink
It’s all with us until we are stripped bare
On the other side of the veil
You could hear children playing
Someone was humming a song
Something about riding a white horse
So familiar the lyrics and the tune
Fast winds and scenes from
A red leafed tree giving up
A burning offering to gravity

Zombieland

People going through the motions
Foreign countries living in a different
Existence than what I am used to
Love doesn’t always mean more
Love can mean lessening what
You have achieved taking steps
Backwards is not a sign of
Happiness what is the sacrifice
Made worth if your life is falling away
Did it all happen for love or at the cost
Of something much more important
Your security your job your
Everything you worked so hard for
Your home your friends you’re
Gone gone gone is the song
You can sing even if you try
The crocodile finds a way to
Put the love bird back into the cage
Until you’re ready what’s the rush
If everything you want and need
Is being forced what is the trust
Of a mountain we are climbing
To discover the other side when for now
You can sit back to back with a tree

Bed

Blanket wrapped around
Hair falling down
Difficult to make eye contact
Through his strands
Walk the streets alone
Her silence is like forever
All the money that can be made
But nothing here for them barely a chip
To be found cold hands cling to the
Gates of iron bars fenced in
On the outside there is a prison
Although they are free
No escape and no house for you
What is humanity
But two houses for other people
And one house no one lives in
The gap is wide and how we
Upload our future as we all
Tap away at our computers
And our phones oh my
How sad still so many have no
Pillows to rest their heads
Empty buildings where no one sleeps
How do we exist on this planet
With all of it unconsciously
How do we do it absently if not
Crying ourselves to dream of
Another time another place holding on
Hanging into the abyss still swirling down
Down down we twist into nothingness
Grappling onto another moment in time
Worth rise to offer another bed
Another hammock for another head
Another roof over another place for
Someone to rest in a world that takes
Not even enough earth to have a place for
Dirt floors or just a bed for everyone
What is a trundle worth if not one for all of us

Intra

How much do we have to be
Accountable to accept the effects
Sounds and accusations walking the
Ground creeping around and into us
Does it have to be absorbed
Or taken seriously as this is
My only mind my only heart my only head
Just to meet someone who
Is genuinely excited to be loved
To be in love with or accepted by
So sincerely wanting to be wanted
But not because we need to interrupt
Or force ourselves to be as the heavens grow
Darker and the night closes in the garden
I can picture many chances to stay
In one place without changing though
The world is shifting around us
In circles of transition the bamboo is spreading
Constantly a new generation a new
Explanation of seeds a second disturbance
Minding your own business is non-existent
But we hold still stationary and
Keep true to the principles of
Life that are suited for the era we
Are encountering today embracing
A distinguishable time to the solitary moments
A union of self and a tribute to being
Brilliant auspicious and flourishing
Without wavering to the arrows being
Fired the space to walk in unblinking
Between is as big as Sherwood Forest
And many trees to glean in sorted hours
As the sun crawls into the shadows a traveling
Sky promises hope in propitious colors

Ha

Laughing out loud in the kitchen
Random bursts remind me
How important it is to feel this way
Unleashed with our memories
Even if it makes no sense to
Laugh in the moment somehow
It’s needed tears pool at the edge
Of my lower lids and I am dripping
With delight in my recollection of
What you said how I overwhelmed
You and now I am guilty of
Overwhelming myself in a time
When the only thing I can think
To hold onto is the coattails of joy
Like a leaf letting go of it’s
Cherished experience on a tree
So much more energy to explore
Another place to rest my limbs
I am liberated in the instantaneous
Chuckling that could fire the captain
And free me from my sad enemies
Training the brain to release the
Ingrained displeasures goodbyes
Can be difficult the worst to experience
But not in this case it’s the best thing
That could be happening in me

Slide

When your friends hate your success
Despise your willingness to keep going
To tick boxes of efforts you strive to
Conceive shifting circles shedding by
Everything in between old friends
Watching you attain the dreams they
Have yet to achieve triggered to see you thrive
It’s gruesomely quiet in a desirable way
Although he couldn’t stop himself from
Wanting worse for others than good
Makes them smile to see you fail
A fire is shot into thin air by way
Of dissatisfaction and fear an elevation
To adhere to the greatest principle
Ingrained within we learn to love them
At a distance and keep summiting on
To the top of the mountain and then
Back down and of course back up again
Don’t let them win or suck you down
Into their pits of grotesque despair
Let go to feel closer to your true self
Walk through the pile that’s placed
Before you to hold you back from
Your evolvement indeterminatly
Although she could not stop herself from
Secretly despising all the capabilities
I was not able to hide from my talents
My gifts my considérâtes all the happiness
That my grandmother built in me
All the encouragement that I was taught
To be with affectations of kindness
And mystical wisdom I have found
It is not always met with the same satisfaction
Adored with the same curiosities found
It is abhorred and coveted for by close
Friends and relatives that cannot grasp
Their own abilities to become more or
Dive into their own creativities they must
Look to someone else and when they do
Resentment floats in like a dark cloud
That’s what slides are for

Lowkey

All the stories being told inchoate
Until they hit my eardrums
Rumors swimming around about
What I said or who I am
Confrontation at its best in a
Circle of friends when the words
Being spoken are unfamiliar
But they are all about you
In a brutal and undeniable way
Sharing things about me
That were not mine and
Did not belong to me or my mouth
Defending ourselves against nothing
I could sense the love under her
White hoodie I could feel and see
A genuine smile in her eyes but everything
Being said about me behind my back
Was unreal and untrue should we
Take the knife from behind me am I bleeding?
My ears burning with fire
I knew none of it until it was being
Said in a place where no one was
Protected and here you stand tall
This is the place to be reminded
To defend your character what you’re
About who you identify as
It’s exhausting to prove yourself
And I gathered this is why I
Choose to live alone without
All the commotion of another
Back and forth’s of many others
A tranquil peace of disbelief
So easy to misplace and to forget
The quick regret of being roommates
An abrasive reminder to yourself
How to respect the solitude
Before you jump into a spacecraft
Full of alien behaviors without
Investigating first all the dynamics
When I awoke and found myself
In bed alone, a sigh of relief
Washed over me how I love being
Capable having the ability to
Connect but oh how much
I relish the opportunity to be
At rest within myself lowkey
Harmonious and placidly away
From argumentative confusion
Permanently eyes open with
Awareness to be freed
It’s just a dream

Category: poetry