Poetry

The waterfall of your heart Is drowning me Slowly but surely When I think the surface is near I find myself upside down The mask you once wore Is now attached to my face When did it happen Why didn’t I see That you were slowly killing me Your taint still won’t leave Following me like a shadow Just a step behind me That single step Seems to be getting closer every day Leading me down a path I saw but pleaded not to be It seems my words Meant nothing But here I am again Trying to escape Your shadows tyranny I can’t help but hate you It isn’t your fault I fell into your shadow And couldn’t get out The waterfall of your suffering Only hid mine Now I am suffering While you are free Drowning right in front of you And you can’t see me Through the screen of a waterfall That never ceases I reach out across the river Acheron But can never really escape You received a hand of help Where is mine I ask you Where is mine Or am I destined to forever lie In Acheron’s wake Drowning until you find me In the shadow of destiny

Mary is watching Waiting for you Standing ever patient In a field of green That never dies Or withers with time She stands in a place Untouched by time Sorrow or shame Mary is watching From very far away Because the world we live in Is to dark for her And too unforgiving For her to enter So she stands On the other side Patiently waiting Because she has All the time in the world But you don’t ...

Seek out what has never been sought Reach out and try What fear has always stopped Find the line between evil and divine If you search you will find They’re between this very thin line I will stand perpetually With one blind eye Cast down on thee And one shut tight To seal your image away for infinity I watched you fall And rise again I watched your torment and pain As you reveled in your own sin I stood helpless Pulled between right and wrong Were justice is a price And mercy is strength less Cross the great divide As I reach out to you Snatch me from Limbo’s grasp And bring me back to you

The moon is framed with reaching hands Holding out waiting To cradle the child’s leaning head When sleep hangs On the starry eyes Of Midnight’s child We will be waiting To catch you As you fall To wrap you up In lights warm embrace To cradle the fragile Fluttering heart of a baby bird We will hold you tight Until it is time To let you go Until your heart Grows strong again So close your eyes Child of the night We will cradle you As you sink Past the point Were you can Re-open your eyes Lay down your head In a cradle of hands We will hold you We will keep you safe Until midnight comes again

Welcome to a place where desolation meets silent tranquility here is my isolation amidst the winter’s snow there is no place to bury the dead no time or will to dig deep beneath the barren forsaken land the dead lay as they fall no ceremony as the wind claws at your face when you scream no one is there to listen in a place riddle with unmarked graves you walk amongst the dead but do not know it kill or be killed at the Gate’s of Desolation ...

Do you remember the path We once walked together It was so long ago In a childhood dream It led us to nowhere But we where still happy It didn’t matter We had everything We didn’t need a tour guide Or a guiding hand Just each other and a smile To follow a path Yet to be paved Here we were safe Amongst the guardian trees Where the strongest voice Was the quietest And the world belong to our dreams Were has it gone now I can’t remember where it is I lost it in time Lead me back To the path we dared to pave I fear it is gone now If it couldn’t last The test of time What can? What about our dreams Will they be forgotten to In the end of time Remind me Guide me We will find it together And never forget That once we walked A path unpaved With the world in our hands And the future in our minds

Today I shook The hand of a man Who truly has suffered But lived his life He is from Sudan On his face A story is told Sun made wrinkles Make him look old His dark complexion Shows who he is A Lost Boy He saw death But refused to die He fought for his life And earned every second His parents shot down Right before his five year old eyes So he turned and ran And never looked back Through starvation and thirst He walked the hard land Over one thousand miles Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya All called home But never truly settled His entire past gone Lost in gun shots and screams Blue rivers run red But still this boy ran Trying to keep up his head Trying not to fall in the sand His fellow comrades The other lost children Trek along desert ridges Across barren lands Nowhere in mind Just trying to survive Carried everything on his back His history and hardships A burden weighed down Something pushing from behind To keep him from falling down So many fallen who never get back up His name on a board That guided his destiny Brought him from nothing But gave him everything From Kenya to America He traveled at last To freedom, a home But her could never forget his past So he took what he had And made something of it Finally coming to our school To tell us his story Of a time so sad He stands here before us Showing his burden Sharing his life At the end of it all I shook the hand of a man Who had earned his way Rough calloused hands With a strong hard grip That never let go But yet still he smiles Even after his time Traveling through lands Of blood and fire To find a home He is a Lost Boy Torn from his home At only five years old

There is a message in a bottle Somewhere out there for me Lost among stormy seas And faraway lands I don’t know whom it is from Or when it will arrive But I know It is out there somewhere Searching for me To deliver its message It kept safe for me It survived the winds The hurricanes at sea The harsh unmerciful waves Passed from hand to hand Sea to sea I know it will find me someday And that day when it arrives at last I will find it among the rocks Nestled and safe Waiting just for me Inside is a letter About what I do not know Just a small little note From an author unknown Telling me a secret I have lived my whole life just to know For now I am waiting With my eyes turned to the sea Watching for the glint of a bottle Lost at sea

Black striped nails Fox with nine tails All our efforts fail Time to let our dreams sail Black striped claws Staring calmly into the lion’s maw Trying not to cry with a locked jaw Forever remember the horrors you saw Black striped hair Leave behind those who care Stepping off a cliff if you dare Walking into darkness unless you’re scared Black striped skin The game you play but never win Look at your face you’re guilty as sin This is my hell go on jump in ...

The fence gate Guards the bell towers Where the pigeons wait Let the bells ring Let the bells toll It is time Let it go Let it go For so long You stood on The wrong side Of the white picket fence Cross over It is time now To leave behind What you were To become Who you really are Shut the gate behind you It won’t on it’s own Seal it tight Don’t let the demons in Here is a place of safety Welcome To the garden Where we are alone now But never alone Under the shadow Of the bell that tolls Waiting for the sign From no one To take up our arms And walk away To cross the threshold To become something new Come take my hand Walk with me We can cross it together And leave the gate Swinging shut behind us Don’t be afraid I have done this before All you have to do Is open your heart And sigh out your miseries Then fill your heart back up with the worlds gentle beauty It is there I promise It is just hard to see Just don’t get lost along the way In the shadow of the bell that tolls It can shallow you hole You wont come back the same To got o hell and back To look down upon You very own grave Come back with me I will guide you Back to the gate That stands guard Over the bell tower That watches us From the garden Don’t be afraid This is life This is who we are This is who we have become Eclipsed by the shadows Of the bell tower