Hidden Face

Curb me, turn me
Shake me up and down
Motivate out the sea
Rushing toward hard land
Unleashing inner beauty
In all inglorious flurry
See what you can
Take what you must
To carry on the stand
Giving off heavy sternness
Radiating clever heat
All to only burn us
because
The eye for an eye
Is twisted for wishing

Forcing

When things fall down
And you feel so paused
Your breath is heard
Down so low
Slowed down so much

Disconnect devices
That straddled you in
Unplug from treachery
False pretenses
Fake faces fade away

Laugh with me now
Laughing so hard
Just to feel your heart
Beating away
Reminding you that
Forcing life is to stay

Keep that Heavy

This new year
With a new outlook
Not a new you too
To carry it out
With a new view

Keeping that heavy
Past in your pocket
Weigh down the day
Don’t throw it out
Echo words you say

Become fearless
Don’t kill yourself quietly
Find a new reason
To fall out of bed
And into your life safely

Dragon

Lost me
So losing inner selves
Inner demons
Demonstrating loves
Eat me up
But leave the crumbs

Heart hurts
Aches in melody
Growing daily
Pangs for hunger
Of living lives
Exhaust my ability

Fierce fighting
Shh, dragon’s coming
Both that and kitten-like
Squander both extremes
Never know it
How to live in the betweens

Lonely Lie

Dancing on fingertips
Lingering in sighs enveloped
In moments of possibility
Quiet slow attempts

Create love to your mind
Take a hold of comfort
Carry hearts securely
Enrapture this time

By yourself
Finding what’s lost
Without losing more
Believe me within lies

Submerge Me

Come to me
Hold me just slightly
Seem comforting
Some days darken with dreary
Thoughts and emotions unclearly

Lift up your lightness
Liven up my intuition
Keepsake saved for such the occasion
To get my fullness out of the rotation

Kind words delicately sprinkle atop
To sugar and sweeten the heavy props
In mood, self-awareness swallow me up
Looking for a hint of rescue attempts

Just lost in a forest of wicked mirrors
Myself entangled in my mind’s rear view
Closed door on a future, say goodbye
Roughing waters, so submerge me, daily

the Gleam

The song that's always there
"and so it is..like you..."
Reality always gives a great doubt

Living in a dream world
half-asleep, mentality torn
while wishing or hoping
both useless in past scope

When something light gets
so serious, dark, and deep
then meaningful

Those moments of slight
sadness speak seemingly full
and last longer than ever remembered

From rooftops staring as
the skies swallow much larger
than all the whys in the head
all the more vocabulary stricken

Some serious people pretend
so light in the heart
because they know the gleam
in the eye of an attachment

Not afraid of too much-
being said to echo and jumble around
clever words, false and real pretenses
of what myself has learned
and attempted to stay away from
to visit only in memory's imagery

Jealousy so ugly
sadness stays so heavy
without shaking it all off
to pretend enough
and digress away, away, away

just a moment

Somehow this time of the end
of this year that has passed
brings a lovely glory
to the hurdles soared

Cold temperatures and warm hugs
happy faces and welcoming arms
lights dancing at night
renewing future set sights

Remembering what is forgot
and holding people near
closer to your hearts
recovering lost starts

Taking in a deep sigh
Closing both divine eyes
and leaping into the newness
of the new year not in jest

Warm Dream

So not difficult to imagine
The death of me slowly
Of yours truly
In the quiet dark and coldness

But the dreams they differ
In eccentric atrocities
Vivid with warm red
By what hand it bled

To wonder how close
The dream world it mimics
Us in our lives together
Mashed, torn tethers

Frayed at the edges
Of insides of my mind
Of heart strings held binding
With comfort attending

Stoplight

It's just the way
it tears
me apart
the way you just
break my heart
It's no matter
what words can say
what actions are
out to play

Imagining futures
ecstatic possible
scenarios
toughen me
heart pieces
hoping
echoing the
words spell out
for me to soak in
except my armor
didn't save me
but kept me numb

Grew a second
skin
resentments win
possibly
complicated files
insides count
stock in soul-feeding
improving
not hindering
positivity in the
word of being
lovingly