Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Cascading Decades

Look how far we’ve come now
Turn about and view our tracks
How they twist and turn
Strive and relax

I’ll strive once more now
To find the words to convey 
The point of composing   
This winding array 

Seasoned by time
I might relax instead
Nothing left to prove
To the voices in my head

Listen to the soft hush
Like footprints in the snow
They compress and refill 
Shrink and grow

I’ll compress myself into
These rambling lines
Squeeze a word til a 
New meaning shines 

I’ll refill with memories 
Old thoughts to create new
Expand lost feelings
All in an effort to -

Feel my soul shifting
And let the words cascade
I'll wrap them around me
As we close out my first decade

Sunday, March 9, 2025

The Centuries Beat In Vain

And when the days whirl around you
Grasp a moment, hold it tight
Anchor for a second
I’ll try to help it last the night
Not to be existential
Still carried in the back of my mind
Twirling evermore, or until the stars are aligned 

Once more, help me find the reason
New years spilling so fast
Eternity insuring - nothing at all will last

Perhaps we’ll find a purpose 
Echoing through the centuries 
Reaching through time
Fragmented in the breeze 
Either found or created
Create this moment with me
To return to always in memory

Memories may become tainted 
Old feelings tend to wane 
Maybe we can make them 
Echo evermore, once more again
Nary a doubt that - against one perfect moment
The centuries beat in vain

Friday, February 14, 2025

One Moment More

Tangled thoughts and
Harrowed hearts all
Disperse in the end
Close your eyes
Leave them behind
This is where we mend

With time to spare
Light catching your hair
I’ll just watch you shine
With no words to bare 
For none compare 
To one so divine 

To hold you here
One moment more
Is all I ask of life
To die would be
A meaningless thing
My heart would yet run rife

With lack of sleep
Small price to reap
Your fingers laced in mine
With dreams so deep
Love, be mine to keep
My eternal Valentine 

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Spare Seconds

Despite all of the reaching
Rectifying and beseeching  
Our feet have moved not at all
Wandering forward and back with each rise and fall

Never to stray far from this place
Inspiration leaves no trace
Nocturnal whispers all run dry
Gusts of wind born to die

In the necessities of the day to day
Novelty gets in the way
No time left for anything new
Energy sapped before the week is through

Collecting spare seconds still
Endeavoring to save enough to fill
Stoking flames and mending hearts
Sapped, we simply stare at all the parts

In spite of all this stalling
Trembling and falling
In all the seconds that we prise
Entwining aspirations with the skies
Struggling back and forward with each fall and rise

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Be Left Not Wanting

Shall I resolve to be
Better than before -
If better were so simply defined
If one philosophy were keeping score
If I could find a final truth
And be left not wanting more

Barring this, I’ll ask myself -
What is it you need?
What better might be aspired to
That will successfully feed
A soul that simply wants
To no longer bleed

When the things that heal and the things that wound
Are so often intertwined
Is it better to cast it all away
Than continue trying to find
A way to keep the good in it
Without losing your mind

So what can I resolve 
With the nonsense that I write?
Lack of action leads to
No endings in sight
In the end, we’re just a frightened child
Still holding on so tight

So shall I resolve to be 
Older and wiser than before -
To learn to soothe my mind and heart
To cultivate peace at my core
To learn to breathe and love and live 
And be left not wanting more