Category: Where Demons Tread
Progress
I’d like to think
I am getting better
Despite slow progress
Where time stretches
And barely things change
Regarding injuries
More easy to notice
Additional damage
Than to define healing
In more subtler degrees
When symptoms convey
Negative reinforcements
Perhaps to ensure attention
Dear Friend,
You’re Prime
You must know this by now
It’s in your walk
Your carriage
Catching up with yourself
Any negatives are
Now merely incidentals
Yet you are more vulnerable
Because you are more real
Outer shell
I could be the inner
Wrapping around your heart
Protector
My weakness
Is prior assumptions
Chagrined by fame
Thinking you’d discard
What’s offered after consumption
Are you more than this?
Have you retained integrity?
Are you capable of
Further transcending?
I would push the levels
By mere presence
You would need to guide
Pumping the brakes
To keep us out of madness
As the world tries to change us
We’d be stronger as one
They’d never tame us
But we could help them grow
And learn to love us
As reflections of
True embodiment
(Beautiful Creatures – Illenium ft. MAX)
A Man & A Woman
Look at us and how we got here
Arriving at the crossroad junction
Laugh with me, will you? At comedy
From such defined misery’s tragedies
How is it you grew from a magic bean
And I grew by impinged-upon flapping?
How wondrous that from two such paths
We meet now in misalignment’s matching!
Dear Friend,
I think about you in how alike to me
Sensorially-starved yet surrounding
Where I had words you held the keys
How did you lean into their guidance?
Mapper of mirror-scapes captivated
Held enraptured within own demise
Stained glass spellcast ascensionisms
Black-lit by loss of soul’s compromise
Dearest, what charm could be woven
Securing your heart safely reclaimed?
Could we gift each other redemption
Held secret within source of flames?
What was the price for those favors
Infused by promised mutual benefit?
Light no longer suck-sallowed gray inked
With the strength of pitch-black midnight
Aching to heal our grief beckons my hands
Quivering to deliver wounds washed clean
Steel shards still imbedded within my heart
Will my spirit to embracing our magnetisms
It seems we are the question’s answer
In ways only divine elements conspire
And I ponder in wonder at vast galaxies
Granting bequethment of you by my side
Conflicted
Due to risk on many levels.
(Run – Collective Soul)
Dear Friend,
“How do I claim the art as mine?
I have yet to find a way to begin.”
Dear Friend,
“Do not worry…I am just doing some ‘house cleaning.'”
Dear Friend,
“Maybe we won’t meet and connect.
But I’d rather have the hope of our doing so than any other sub-par relationship reality.”
Who Could Have Guessed?
In the deepest dark, one can sometimes find the brightest light.
(Beyond Beliefs – Ben Bohmer)
Dear Friend,
“I know that we see in each other what we had hoped others before could become.
However, you and I have also grown farther beyond any of this.
It would be good for us to have many deep and expansive conversations together to delineate and identify bearings within ourselves and with each other regarding.
And I am looking forward to navigating the unknown future with you, walking hand in hand as we reclaim our primal vitalities.”
(Honeybee – The Head And The Heart)
Dear Friend,
“I look for traces of you,
But find only memories.”
(Even Broken Things – Chris Bryan)
Dear Friend,
“I suspect you have the ability to make my world spin ’round – which is a rare gift, indeed.”
Dear Friend,
I think we can give to each other
The things that we have desired
(Sahindra Light – Lucy’s World)
Dear Friend,
“I regret that I could not see you last time you came by.
I have been struggling to get my path right side up, again
I plan to be there, this time…
Adorned in celebration.”
(I’m In Love With You – Blues4Chillin)
Dear Friend,
“I’ve allowed your traction to pull me in, nice and cozy, with hope for a better future.
It’s the unknowns and unmet needs that I still struggle with.”
(Open Spaces – Just A Gent)
Dear Friend,
“I saw how you kept trying…
Would you extend the same courtesy to me?”
Dear Friend,
“I know that you understand what it is like to lose a love that could have become everything.”
Light In The Dark (Movie Legend Spoiler)
(Scars – Bush)
Wisdom Bits From Hell’s Travels
When senses return to you
Carefully roll over to a better vantage
Pick out gravel from stinging wounds
Rinse them clean if can find water
Scrabble if you can to next levels
Even if only inch by inch
Dragging your broken carcass
Laughing maniacally
After the fall
Baring your teeth aggressively
At scavengers and predators
Letting them know
They’ll go down with you
Until you can make it to higher ground
Where the grass is green
And flowers are blooming
As birds and butterflys and other creatures
Evidence proof of The Garden
And you can begin to reclaim
Your humanity
Again
—
(Stark contrast to booklet, “Chicken Soup For The Soul”)
(American Boy – Estelle)
Blood Price
“It seems that when attempting to overcome great barriers and move onto better realms, the Gods of Chaos extract a blood price.
What is this twisted alchemy, and how can we better appease it?”
(Family losses and my big toe just got shredded)
Dear Friend,
I knew you knew
Sensing the taint
It’s why I reached out
With gentle carress
To let you know
I felt your pain
Valid as mine
In owed debt
Deserving
To be paid
Reframed
(The Love You Want – Sleep Token)
Toxic Love
We yearn for acknowledgement of
Our efforts and unending devotion
While used and told repeatedly “No”
Until we finally accept and move on
Yet when we turn to new love’s hope
They arise from past to reengage us
Calling upon our prior promises to stay
As if we still owe them after “killed” us
Off-Script
You show up
Offering hope
Go beyond your best
To overcome valiantly
Then get blamed for any
Communicating honestly
As if your efforts are reason
Why the relationship failed
The Third Wall
“Is cracking everywhere.”
We Know
“I don’t have to say it.”
The Flood
Having water-logged into
Near-drowning swimming
Swept up by sensations
Only diverted by equal or
Greater intensity experiences
Transforming energy capably
(Say That You Will – Sleep Token)
Pair-Bonding
“Takes on new dimensions.”
Dear Friend,
I would like to go
Toe to toe with you
Word for word and
Action for action
Over your life’s betrayals
And maybe mine, as well
Should we yell and rail
At each other, together?
Blaming the other one
For their sex’s crimes?
And then once expended
And the hits atoned taken
Fall into each other’s arms
Sobbing, divinely entwined?
Dear Friend,
I know that we’ve both
Yearned for deliverance
Yet do not be afraid
Once we’ve acquired
If things do not go
According to vision
What has driven us to find it
Is merely a new door opening
Where life begins again
In next level complexity
I think we could manage it
If we rise to the challenges
Keeping each other in mind
Holding our bond as sacred
Dear Friend,
It makes me frustrated to not
Know what to say around you
And nervous
To be reliant
I say this because
You mightn’t know
Due to how
Well I mask
Dear Friend,
“What would we speak of in reality?”
A Voice Replied
“I think they’re telling a story…”
(Regarding my feelings)
Dear Friend,
You cannot sleep?
Now I can’t either
Letting feelings for you surface
Gave them license to take over!
Missing Pieces
Revealed over time
Desire’s fulfillment
Becomes defined by
A life’s accumulated
Gaps in unmet need’s
Missing puzzle pieces
Being found by exchange
In supportive partnership
Again bestowing upon us
Eden’s blessing as we kiss
Dear Friend,
“They speak of age, yet it is more about life experiences, interpretaions, and vision; emotional, spiritual, and psychological intelligence; what drives and motivates – as well as what we can give and provide for each other which dictates compatibility.
I find it fascinating how similar our trials and growth in understanding have been – to the point of how this could have come to be becomes difficult to logically comprehend, for the details in lifes’ design and how we arrived here have been vastly different.”
(Moon Music – Coldplay)
Consolidation
“I’ve fought so long to keep issues separate, hoping I would find an answer while searching for better weather.
But maybe it’s time to lay it all down and accept a new fate, together.”
