Bleak Walls
Bleak walls
Pervading darkness
Stillness cuts like a knife
Famished for meaning
Emptiness swells and suffocates life...
Ah! Once vibrant and beautiful… now devoid of function or purpose
A ravished and animated existence… now lifeless and driven by bitter cold…
Into the grim deadness of winter
The bell tolls… hushed at first… but then more loudly… the enlarging deafening shrillness
The vociferous pandemonium
Cancelling out the bittersweet recall
Oh! Tortuous anguished memories, wilt thou leave me?
When will the turbulent stillness end?
Someone's lost lover - quakes and shivers at the hollow Nothingness…
Evading Solace for eternity...
The Night Divine
Groping in the Darkness
The players play,
The humdrum of their refrain
Convinced their actions known
While the silvery glow
of an unwelcome Moon
Casts its unsolicited light
across the solemn earth below
Lively shadows dance in 3/4 time
Waltzing nimbly to and fro
and then suddenly turn to go
Away from the night Divine
While the players stumble
Wild unnatural movements
Twisting and turning and bowing
before the Bright illumined Day
A funny thing happened
A funny thing happened on the way to the park
I got lost in the dark
I got lost in the dark
A funny man left to see the world
He got caught up in swirls
He found laughter in whirls
A funny thing happened down deep in the sea
The fish gathered round
Without a sound
Such a fantastic party
Take it from me
A hilarious thing happened to me
The fish found the man and they sang merrily
In the pitch of G
And I found the pub
And joined in the revelry
But alas... I lost my key
Empty Skies
Skies grey and blue, crestfallen faces,
Things that once were, are no more
Tired eyes, empty spaces
Not even the rain dares to enter
Why did it happen? Where do we go?
How can we ever go home?
Anxious thoughts rack my brain
Twisted crosses writhing in pain
When will the night end
A circling swirling fury
Can't escape the foretelling
Of time mixed with future and past
Hope confused with despair
Memories distant and near
Of longingness, of loneliness
Searching the skies
For some sign, for meaning
Reaching in, reaching out
in Desperation