Among Them

Jumping across glaciers on a steep

Mountainside, I feel the cherry twizzlers

Wrap around my neck. They tighten so that

I can feel the gas grill in my stomach push

Up through the misty river gate among

Several fierce animalistic angry pharoahs.

Nothing Never

Inside my mind I hear a rattle.

I start to climb up to the middle.

Where it takes me makes me shiver.

Don’t you know I’m feeling dizzy.

The path of least resistance 

Is the surest way to trouble.

How I want to escape

From this tired bubble.

Something promises

A change is coming.

Somehow I feel

There is a turning.

Hope abounds around the corner.

Do you see the closing never?

In Sync

I am laying here counting sheep, but they

Keep turning into shiny corvettes.

My wandering mind is uncontrollable,

Or so it seems, sometimes. Would you

Care to have a drink with me? How

Splendid! I am thankful for your company.

A Chance Meeting

Meandering along the colorful road,

I sniff the scent of rosemary leaves

Drifting through the breeze to meet me.

How did you guess that number?

The cook asks you with a puzzled look

On his face. I picked it by random.

Let’s all settle down to a cup of tea

And a warm hearth at our feet.

The clock strikes a heavy blow

To the curfew of many little ones

And those that are only little inside.

Cover my trail with burning incense,

So no one can follow behind me.

I fight off sleep so frantically,

As I doze into a puddle beside the street.

A bite of biscuit clings to my teeth

As I sing a melody out of sync.

Only cocoons hang in between.

So something beautiful awaits

To be born again on a mountainside.

Called for Rain

I jump into overdrive to save the mile

On high I feel the breath on the back

Of my neck it’s not the same as it ever was

Don’t you wonder who has the key

To unlock the barricades before your heart

I do sometimes and I scream in the dark

Outer space inside my brain it’s silly so

Why try to be different? Why try

To make a statement? Everyone knows

The end of the story they all see the score

At the close of the game called for rain

Who’s to blame it doesn’t matter

It never did no sense worrying

The answer will come riddle or not

Plop it goes into the lake

It doesn’t burn it soothes the senses

We cuddle up we hold hands

You are mine and I am yours

Come with me to the ocean

Come be free in harmony

We will watch the sun set on our dreams

We will wait while it still seems

There is hope no swinging rope yet

It’s been around the neck

Of way too many too soon a tragedy