Unending

Searching for sunlight 

With one final breath 

Resisting this urge to 

Succumb now to death 

Fate could be kinder 

Yet who am I to complain?

Just a speck in infinity 

Less than a drop in the rain 

To return here to nature 

Become one with the sea

Cycles continued

Nothing ends here with me

A part of the boundless 

Pattern of space 

The arms of the galaxy 

Reflect in the lines of my face

Starlight will blaze through 

The dark spaces between 

Everything unknown 

And all I have seen 

I'll see it all now 

Sunk to the ocean floor 

Or gasping for more breath 

Pulled safely to shore 

Scattered

Awash with new sensations

Liminal or late

Likened to a daydream 

Ethereal or deadweight  

Lost to chaos or found in fate

Scattered into pieces 

Etched into our skin 

Harken to these ruminations 

Avid to begin

Still taking it all in

Moments turn to lifetimes 

Opaque or crystal clear 

Vivid as you think it

Eternity let's nothing near

Dare to find yourself right here

Nary A Sigh

Losing an endless battle 

Against time and brute force 

Cold and unforgiving 

Knowing waves feel no remorse

Impede them for a moment 

Never could be often enough 

Grasping for a way to 

Make still hills from a sheer bluff 

Open waters continue pounding 

Taking all soft curves away 

I'm left here with only 

Volatile cliffs and ocean spray 

Attempt to find calm here

Troubled waters may impede

I alone cannot soothe them

Or convince them to heed 

Nary a sigh for those who bleed 

Gain A Soul

Weathered by this endless 

Incessant drip of thought 

Tangling eternity 

Here where there is naught 

Accumulating daily 

Burying each head

Under every inconsistency 

Rationalizing all that was said 

Negating such contention 

Insisting there's a plan 

Nullify a lifetime 

Gain a soul to kill a man

Arrest this trepidation 

Prepare for life anew 

Accost not these burdens 

They are by design to

Hallow and cleanse man

Yet they are what dirty you 

Sunrise, Sunset

In the glare of the sunrise

Watching color unfold 

A touch of infinity 

A brush stroke of gold

Flashing by brightly 

Futures untold 

In the heat of the moment 

Words spilling still

Lacking perspective 

And an effort of will

Draining out daily 

No time to refill 

In the glow of the sunset 

Watching color restore 

A sense of serenity 

A feeling of more -

Linger here softly 

Remember what it's all for