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*To Love, Too*

Would you take my hand,

And go off to Afghanistan

To see the mountains, trees, and lands,

And with that embrace,

As we face off face to face,

Would you tell me true,

That it is I whom you love too?

Oh, tear not my heart asunder

In the pretence of two,

For to love me four is more t...

#The Bricked Road#

There is a stepping stone

On that Houston Road

That strings a journey

From sorrow's painful load.

It is a beginning, a turning -

Toward an arduous path home,

Yet, it is also a learning

To build a fortress

From the callous and cold.

So, begin that step,

That homeward step home,...

+Pain's Companion+

So, you are angry now,

And I feel compassion somehow.

I have suffered too,

Yet, there it is, what to do?

We are in a hurricane,

And nearly insane.

Humanity and God,

Who is there to blame?

I know not how to shield

Nor how to counterattack,

So I protect neither you,

Nor even mys...

*Ma, but Ma*

Every day I am gathered up

And sent away.

I know not why they ...

Would have me there stay.

Someday, I'll find my mother's land;

It must be full of beauty

And all so grand.

Yet, I must say, I am but a man,

And not a mother in your mother's land.

Some say, I should be Italian,

For it...

*Pain Sold*

That which is salt,

And ties a knot taut

Binds not heavenly pure.

Harbour lessons ring here

Worthy of a few sneers,

For the wind blows ahead

And also, alas, below.

The woman harvests her prey,

And then cries behold,

I am a virgin,

But the man is in tow.

The track is laid,

And a crime...

*Oriental Flagship*

So, I am born in your arms

Of an embrace that disarms,

And to that, fear grows,

For your pulchritude and charms

Demand obeisance and servitude.

Do not devour me!

I only wanted your love ...

Not the passage downward road.

So nigh, I must in angst flee,

Yearning your embrace,

B...

*Alone*

Down stair-ward road,

You alone and I must go

Through the path

Of lost church bells' toll.

My heart is all but broken

In this virtuous city

That plagues my mind so.

Through watery paths,

And a rock road gash,

You and I alone must go.

Though the waves heavy crash

That hold our hearts afar...

*Icehouse of Doom*

Frozen in the tombs of time

Was a wisdom not sublime.

The fruits had died,

And youth does not revive.

The ice had rolled,

And police are told.

A heart becomes broken,

And is not mended with token.

So, to this we die.

To this we succumb.

Gone is the child,

Gone is the womb.

...

*Whereupon Do I Sleep?*

Where do I sleep?

This upon me you heap.

Four times query me thus,

Yet, I must a phantom keep.

Wars wary me

In nearly every land,

And yet,

I alone without woman stand.

Who upon us

With sword riven high,

Denies me my love

Here, by my side?

In my love

You charge me much,

Bu...

*Integration Over Infinite Time*

She was there in the morning

And I was not,

For our love was a warning

To a son not begot.

I was there in the evening,

But she would trot,

For the winds were her kissing,

And I was bought.

To each is given division;

To each is given time,

But to us ...

There is o...

*One*

My dearest, loving, haunting eyes

Within the terrace of the sky,

My heart throbs

Counting the seconds go by.

Tomorrow is a road clung to those stars,

And I am - a child mesmerized,

Curiously, flung to thy lap,

And enamoured to the touch of your hand.

Tomorrow, you and I,

Become forever one.

-Little But Nothing-

In the end

There isn't much to defend,

For an ordinal command

Doesn't one recommend.

But if this be pretend,

This vestige to disband,

Like an ochre in the sand,

Delivers little, but nothing

To an infertile, nowhere land.

Mort upon Mort,

Death upon Death,

Heap thy shadows

To ...

*City of Night*

Reddened wine -

Amber light -

Crossed tide -

City of night -

We were young.

We were bright.

Winsome bound

In fearsome flight,

A homeward tack,

Love bids adieu.

The harbour walls

Yet hold tight.

Oh my love,

Oh my sight,

Perhaps again

Tomorrow night.

-No Fare-

In the twilight of a dream,

There was a tussle and then a scream -

Silence stunned frozen to a beam -

Pain and anger followed,

Laying reason far, far fallow,

And rage stultified humanity

Into a graven image of deceit.

There for aeons of despair

Was I in need of repair,

Yet heavy winds ...

-The Penal Brain-

Yes, there is the penal brain

With noses to drain,

And chins to tuck,

And potties to inflame.

Yes, the penal brain

With things left behind,

And plans to crash,

And loves never asked.

Yes, there is the penal brain

For those with eyes of ice

Who are divine and above price.

Now, t...

-Before They Can Rest-

The night is gone,

And so is our youth -

An abrogation of life

Lost in logic obtuse.

The fires were spun -

We knew not where to run;

To be sown as the sun,

Or lost by the lune,

But the internment

Was long and full of rife -

Filled with sleepless nights.

So, who held the re...

-A Bind of Mind-

For the sunrise,

There is tomorrow,

And for that

There is none to borrow.

It is a catered kiss

Made of somniferous bliss

That stirs us from sleep;

Unbinding weary feet.

But tonight is a nightcap

That shrouds us in the deep

With a lull that deafens

And blinds our higher mind

Quic...

-Morning's Dawn-

I've flown to the heights above

And there is no more, no more;

I've topped the clouds of love,

And there is no more, no more -

And now, I wander the streets of night

In the shadow, and sometimes fright,

But the love I remember

Is still no more.

'Twould that I could,

The echo of ...

The Votaries

It was once or twice or tree

That encompassed my passion for thee,

And with that votary, I am impassioned,

But alas, not free.

To once is not once free,

For to you, all is inscribed - for eternity!

-The Earthen Moon-

In the swoon of love,

Desire rules more than above,

And populations constantly grow

To topple life's groves,

But then there is the moon

That relinquishes love's swoon,

And lets there be a tomorrow -

Yes, a tomorrow though tonight

Would us rule.

And consequently the moon burns ...

War's End

Well, with the end of war

Spirits will soar,

And relief comes to tired and poor,

But then again,

There are memories torn.

The Chants Of A Dance

The ins and outs of time,

And then a nursery rhyme -

Who wins the entry line,

Only to find an exit sign?

There is a 1 in 2000 chance

To mate with this romance

And pay the price for dance.

Contrarian Stride

In the history of time

Love and war decline,

But both command in turn

To emote joy and burn.

Their seduction is immense

As well as grand and intense,

So who in this is surprised

By the abundant contrary prize

Will soon reap or rent

That unwished of their foment.

From Here To All Time

Though you burn my love,

Though you burn my love,

Though you burn my love,

I love her so.

And though you would demise my love,

And make me despise my love,

There is only one way my heart will go.

It is she I love,

It is she I love,

And your flame will not make me go,

For fr...

Fasts' Harvest

A child is dead, oh what foul play?

A turning of the other way,

And life does not stay,

But is abducted to death's chalet.

Pray tell, reason and defray?

Oh, reasons would you I say:

Perhaps gold accuses my way,

Or two men she loves one day,

Or two women's cups fill halfway

From b...

Born on the Bastille

A love, a love that was real,

A condemnation at the Bastille,

Killed of my sister, mon fille.

A wedding of chance to chains.

A love of remorse and pains,

A wicked rumour gained

For school lessons learned,

A foliage of yesterday's cuisine,

A bastard born to man's spleen,

A lo...

Eine Sache, die frei ist.

Die Gedanken sind frei,

Aber meine Leben und Lieben sind vorbei.

Egal, meine Gedanken sind frei,

Und es gibt keinen Spion

So halten Sie meine Meinung

zu einem Kerker zu beschränken.

Es gibt keine Jäger

Bei so vielen ihrer Kinder

Zur Imprägnierung meiner Meinung nach,

Un...

Quo Vadis?

If I were there in the morning,

And then I was gone,

Would you send me a warning,

Or a lover's song?

If I were there in the evening,

And then you were gone

Would I be the one found grieving,

And singing a Psalm?

Oh, quo vadis?

Si matrimonium vel miseram cantu?

Time Gone

Let me go,

Though I love you so.

Fear greets as we meet,

And again as we retreat.

This erodes love's beliefs.

Give me escape

From this charade

Of heaven's drape

That obscures truth

To embody their lie,

And entomb me with love's abide.

Time is gone, by and by.

Our Endeavour

Born in a land of transgression,

We suffer a hiatus from connection.

Within this, our hemisphere,

Stands the steamy presence of fear.

So, hope is engrained with tears.

Our lands are inhumane all too many years.

Love is forbidden for those of our cast.

Slavery embodies our each ...

The Greatest Lie

Then there was love

That was but an alibi;

A truncation of truth

To fortify the church's fbi -

To fornicate in fruitful multiply;

Making something

From nothing -

Gaining superiority for spies.

It was a grand eloquence

With no one to deny

Those who most grandiose

Deceive and lie....

A Gathering of Gold

Whirling in the wind

Was a cacophony of old,

Where women were sold

In the Christian fold,

And children fathered

From a women's hold.

Then there were lies

To make and be told,

To gather the greatness

Of a blackmailer's gold.

Ah, the lies, they are quite bold

That enrich a bit...

Je t'aime

Je t'aime, you are for whom I am

In that simple lust, we are bound within,

To that which is great and little in life's limb;

To a binding that lasts more than a moment's din;

To tranverse from here to far in clock's spin.

Oh, you would wonder of life's inconstant woe,

And ponder upon t...

Beyond A Cry

If perchance you would once upon me glance,

Then I in rejoice with you in love dance,

Oh, the joy of such wonder ploy

Would ring me home for you to enjoy.

The journey would not capture us enfold,

But deliver us beyond the times of old

To a time where there is much to behold,

And all...

In the summer night, the heat oppressed,

And we were wrestled from our rest.

The winds yielded no relief

With their thin veil that upon us pressed.

It was to be a night of too much grief

That extended beyond the morning's peek.

The night transformed us to the beast,

And we knew humanity birthed ...

At Country's End

Aisha is a sigh,

And with a mother's cry

She is gone away

Wringing a lullaby.

Gone from her country,

Gone from her land,

Carrying her newborn,

From her father's last stand.

A life begins

As a country ends.

Microwave-waveguide attraction,

An enslavement - total reaction,

Speech with thought inaction,

Life restrained in contraction,

Religion with subtle distraction,

Sun Yat sen's foreign compactions,

Lifeless in field subtractions,

Death with breath infractions

Marina, Marina

A lesson learned,

And a page turned -

A love behind, unknown, not returned.

A drink gone cold;

A story unfolds,

As a diary told

Of a love grown old

Along a long, long road.

And players play,

And actors yearn

For the day that love

Would again return,

Fulfilling vows that somehow we...

The Lee Winds

In the lee winds

The summer was running cool.

In the lee winds

The lovers were nearly through.

In the lee winds

The Heeren were in summer school.

In the lee winds

There was something a little cruel.

In the lee winds

The shadows our eyes fool.

In the lee winds

Our breaths begin to a...

The Changeling Boy

He was a changeling boy

Born to inconsistency

More than pursuit of joy.

With the passing breeze,

His endeavour would cloy,

Suggesting a life of fantasy.

Nonetheless, but perhaps with remorse

The man was born to Troy,

And would eke out an existence

As a girl's second best toy.

Some men fall in love with pretty faces -

Rapacious.

They're seduced by all their laces -

Seditious.

By only one, anon -

repetitious.

And in the end,

Who is thereby propitious?

Capricious.

And then there was Trisha's

Malicious,

And from hence comes -

Tres leches -

Delicious.