To Move Forward
Nightfall
When the rolling waves do come in
So do my steps fall back into infinity
This moonless night befalls me
The only light—the glimmer of my tired eyes
The ribbons have frayed
The papers burned away
The fragments pierced together
Crystals—
Time has pressured them as they lay
So I thought that can only be the way
But alas
This last puzzle?
A meaning trapped in paradox
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Midnight
No questions nor answers tell
The moment of its trigger relinquish
No tears nor silent scream
Register when the bell tolls
Of gears and cogs
This heart of issue
Rolling around
Can emotion ever be divined?
Toy nor prison
This last maze of mind
Attempt is failure
But failure never tried
No entrance nor exit
But victims all the same
What shall I make of this
Am I even sane?
Does the threads of my tapestry
Begin or ever end?
Do the patterns of this flat painting
Ever storybook the frame?
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Late
Each rounded layer cracking
In the edges of this black stone
Do the waters cry through
Summons of the past fading away
All blank canvases now
To tell no more of you
No traveler will find me
No weary hero will see me
No specter of the future
Shall haunt me
It’s just me now
No stars to guide
The whispers of the gardens
No longer sound as sweet
The monsters of my childhood
No more than anger seethe
What trails that I walk
Now have me as lead
Lonely frontiers
I understand you now
So too does the silence speak to me
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Asleep
These last years shift the seconds of dreams
No edge nor boundary
The brushstrokes blend
These bitter hues
Turning back time
To where I began
Meant running toward
Frail eternity’s land
Struck—
The hymn codas once again
But the notes carry no heavenly repose
My own voice carry the lows
The lonely and final repeat
Weaving these impossible measures
For some grander symphony I will never know
Stepping in time to this mad waltz
I thought I was doomed
To this
To me
Suffering fate’s loom
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Dawn break
But fate and faith are a duo
Light and life within
Darkness divided
The rays come true and through
It’s just me now
No stars to guide
It’s just me now
The dawn burning eye
Never will I know the truth of this
Even as the puzzle falls apart
Beneath it lies another mystery
Layers of perpetuity
But as I sing the memories of the past
The future so faithfully comes forth
The Harmony of the End?
No—
Of Tomorrow
Not for me nor for you
Of the days of all of us
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Mourning
Acceptance of the laughing tragedy
Are smiles so bitter
Sweetness in lieu
But once began
Even with no end
Do the kinder words
Come falling through
Paradox me this
In the deeper waters
An answer in riddle
So shallow but so simple
But all the more true
Even as the silt did rise
The waters never did forget
Of the darkened stone
Do fall apart and drag away
Did the clearer rivers flow
For another today
A bygone conclusion
A solution so absurdly obvious
For happiness, for peace, for serenity
For me and for you
All of us
Humming within
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Zenith
The story shifted
The narratives transforming
The past ever so gentle
The present writing
The futures of blue
Where the sun shines
My brighter eyes
Goodbye nevermore
As the stone rolls away the waves
I do say
Hello to another form of you
Even when all is lost
We never do lose
The permanent junctions of
Crossroads formed
Where others came to you
And you to them
Where the path taken
Is a thread woven
Perhaps gold and green tomorrow
But never without its true hue
Our histories speak
Of the words of the present
Showers of wisdom
Brought colors of yore
For Hope
Of wings and feathers
Aeternus Deus
From me
From all of us
I’ll never forget
My promise to you.