Day 241 - Perched High Above You

Under brush thick and green

Because you have never seen my face

Still in my heart you are queen

One day you will enter my embrace

Photos of your determined gait

Like this one wall paper my room

My heart begins to palpitate

Every time my camera begins to zoom

I cut a lock when you were sleeping

From your hair so golden and light

Those others said I was creeping

But I was only watching you last night

Your chest that fell and slowly rose

How I wished to hold you to mine

I could write you endless prose

For you are mine, my Valentine

I am only perched high above you

Because I so ardently love you

Day 143 - Mind Maze

Locked into horrors you cannot know

Every piece of my soul distorted and aged

Mottled beyond repair from long ago

Wishing my demons could at long last be caged

And yet they still hover over my head

All the redeeming thoughts remain unsaid

They once lingered on lips of red

But have since faded to varying grays

If only she had not completely misled

We might have made it to another phase

Instead I am left pulled apart into pieces

Until what I know of this world ceases

For now I cower to pull away

From all the terrifying possibilities

As threads of life begin to fray

One of the many tolls and fees

That come with dangers in the mind

The most treacherous and painful kind

Day 42 - Meditations

Meditations

At ease my student let your mind leap

And throughout your body let calmness seep

It is afterall through this that you discover the soul

And how to find the center of your control

Learn slowly from your master for I have much to share

And it all begins raising your existence up in prayer

For in contemplation you find the sturdiness of stone

And then remember that you are not alone

The water from out beyond is in every single way

The answer to the messages we know not how to say

Deep breath brings in more of wisdom and the Divine

So you may begin to live, sweet, true and fine

The truth that we strive for is all around

In every moment, view and sound

Day 16 - Puzzler

Quietly you puzzle me, with a thousand shades of gray

You never define what you mean and always have more to say

I used to think you were forward and knew every answer

I thought you were the music, but you are not even the dancer

White patches lie safe in the company of black

I used to trace each path trying to find my way back

Roads that only travel straight forbid change and growth

Black and white opinions are no times to take an oath

Instead we must find the colors that weave into our living

They are the surest way to measure what it is we are giving

Some moments mean confusion and disregard

But if we could stand together it would not be so hard

Light may glance off and form many a shadow

Leaving the truth for some far tomorrow

Quietly you puzzle me, with a thousand shades of gray

You never define what you mean and always have more to say

Day 4 - Madness

Madness I say it spins all around

Never is there an inch where solitude is found

Instead we face off with our fears

Until all hope and honor disappears

We learn to fight, but not to heal

In this world we create with cold steel

Time rushes on without our permission

So we find ourselves in submission

Where we dare to keep nothing sacred

And without ritual we soon build hatred

Only to find that we cannot care more

Asking so silently “what is this for?”

Madness I say it greets you and I

When in the harmless we find a great spy

That peers in daily to watch our routine

And soon we turn harsh, bitter and mean

Only locked by the frame we have built

But drawing more in, with waves of false guilt

Ponder all this and anger you will find

Is only built within your very own mind

What was once no more than a frown

Has now turned entire worlds upside down

Instead of cowering in absolute fear

Open you ears and for once HEAR

Madness I say is all in your head

Built by yourself, not stories you read

No fable or tale I could ever compose

Would make a man doubt what he thinks he knows

You are the master that you so desperately crave

In the mirror the man to be saved, you can save

Just take a moment to look for the good

And soon you will find just what you should

That glaring off at your own reflection

Is only the path to further misdirection

Instead you must smile and say

“How best can we enjoy this glorious day?”