Bound by thorns and crowned by petals Your scent is death and not even flies approach At the end of time ravaged by age At the edge of nothingness uncrumbling, unfazed Hold a mirror to me but not too close For we are birds of feather two petals of a rose
Ruiseñor
on a branch so thin
Ruiseñor
with no voice to sing
Ruiseñor
do you dream in green?
On my dead dead garden
You stand alone
A brave stroke of spring
Ruiseñor
So small and so brave
You won't give in
What does it mean to write? To lay words flat? To have your pen bleed out? To write is to uncoil a nest of serpents barehanded accepting every bite It is to unravel the ravenous raven's feathers rebelling against reason Writing is setting sail towards the Kraken or Leviathan if heavens provide It's making peace with your demons and stabbing them in the back Writing is to fight a dragon over a hoard of pennies It is to give more than you have and to take back what you can't keep Like the strike of lightning in a blizzard Like seeing the universe in a blade of grass But most importantly writing is free
I saw a girl the other day
a lady
a madonna
with eyes like dawn
and lips like sunset
crimson sunset
in the autum sky
her hair flies
picked up by the breeze
each strand an inkstroke delivered by a skilled hand
masterfully, deliberately
playfully
our gazes meet
hers, like a beacon
gathering all the disperse light of the universe
mine, like cinders
struggling, fading
transient
I'm all questions
she's all answers
yet she can't speak
mine's the only voice
for she's but a character
and I am the author
making
I'm less than I've ever been
I'm more than I'll ever be
I'm a rock ashore
Erased by the tides of time
A little bit each day
Some more each night
What I was, I lost
What I am, won't remain
So what am I
If not this instant
So what will I become
If not dust
I think for the last time
as I'm washed away
Legs that stride
Arms that reach
A voice that sings
Wings that take flight
Legs that tire
Hands that let go
Shouts that deafen
And a plummeting heart
Everything,
My gift to you
Much less than the sum of it's parts
All that you treasure
and everything you detest
stored forever safely
in that place you will always find
extend your hands to catch the rain
and receive everything that it gives
raise your gaze
and receive the pouring light
what is mine I will not give
what is yours I will not take
yet you will forever want
desire that wich belongs in the earth
and desire that which fills the sky
long for that which is out of reach
and for that which slips through your fingers
your ambition or your greed?
the abundance they've brought
does it only ever serve your avarice?
Flip two coins
Let them both be heads
Behead two oxes
Let it fill four glasses
Walk the line between night and dawn
Inhaling the receding shadows
Eight steps is enough
So turn your back on the rising sun
and praise all wich comes to life under it's light
Coins on the lids
and spilled crimson
All that's lost can be regained
Drag my body away
Until it burns against the sunset
Cause, even in the ashes, my spirit remains
Bound by thorns and crowned by petals Your scent is death and not even flies approach At the end of time ravaged by age At the edge of nothingness uncrumbling, unfazed Hold a mirror to me but not too close For we are birds of feather two petals of a rose
Ruiseñor
on a branch so thin
Ruiseñor
with no voice to sing
Ruiseñor
do you dream in green?
On my dead dead garden
You stand alone
A brave stroke of spring
Ruiseñor
So small and so brave
You won't give in
What does it mean to write? To lay words flat? To have your pen bleed out? To write is to uncoil a nest of serpents barehanded accepting every bite It is to unravel the ravenous raven's feathers rebelling against reason Writing is setting sail towards the Kraken or Leviathan if heavens provide It's making peace with your demons and stabbing them in the back Writing is to fight a dragon over a hoard of pennies It is to give more than you have and to take back what you can't keep Like the strike of lightning in a blizzard Like seeing the universe in a blade of grass But most importantly writing is free
I saw a girl the other day
a lady
a madonna
with eyes like dawn
and lips like sunset
crimson sunset
in the autum sky
her hair flies
picked up by the breeze
each strand an inkstroke delivered by a skilled hand
masterfully, deliberately
playfully
our gazes meet
hers, like a beacon
gathering all the disperse light of the universe
mine, like cinders
struggling, fading
transient
I'm all questions
she's all answers
yet she can't speak
mine's the only voice
for she's but a character
and I am the author
making
I'm less than I've ever been
I'm more than I'll ever be
I'm a rock ashore
Erased by the tides of time
A little bit each day
Some more each night
What I was, I lost
What I am, won't remain
So what am I
If not this instant
So what will I become
If not dust
I think for the last time
as I'm washed away
Legs that stride
Arms that reach
A voice that sings
Wings that take flight
Legs that tire
Hands that let go
Shouts that deafen
And a plummeting heart
Everything,
My gift to you
Much less than the sum of it's parts
All that you treasure
and everything you detest
stored forever safely
in that place you will always find
extend your hands to catch the rain
and receive everything that it gives
raise your gaze
and receive the pouring light
what is mine I will not give
what is yours I will not take
yet you will forever want
desire that wich belongs in the earth
and desire that which fills the sky
long for that which is out of reach
and for that which slips through your fingers
your ambition or your greed?
the abundance they've brought
does it only ever serve your avarice?
Flip two coins
Let them both be heads
Behead two oxes
Let it fill four glasses
Walk the line between night and dawn
Inhaling the receding shadows
Eight steps is enough
So turn your back on the rising sun
and praise all wich comes to life under it's light
Coins on the lids
and spilled crimson
All that's lost can be regained
Drag my body away
Until it burns against the sunset
Cause, even in the ashes, my spirit remains