a mind abused and tormented by dispelled images of tomorrow
fragmented dreams born of hallucinated realities
a fistful of courage slips through in sand
burrowing through the ever enveloping today
shiny diamonds gleaning in the sun

a thousand cuts bleed in denial, the pain it's flavoured release
acrid smoke supports the addiction, lazy liquid flows over the revelations

dark thoughts scuttled by a sound of my rise

he has arisen,

fear him,

he rises from the ashes of yesteryear

to destroy,

build,

he is not who you know

he is who you have asked for

not imagined for .....

maniacal malice bestowed with freedom

shall rattle the very cages that hold his in his ordeal ....

a quarter of a century spent searching for an identity
transversed realities through multiple instances
created lives through futile experiences

lost is the soul in this search
found is the hollow ring of desolate realization

that this is all there is
and that is so ....

a fragmented generation lost in images waken to the ruminative of the night before,
dronish lives , labored breaths surround the mind , morality takes a backseat
dawn sets to a forced stupor, rambled confessions of desperate emotions
equivocal thoughts torn in ambivalence of reason and feelings

death inevitable of the mortal coil, cowed life is ensured in stead
whereupon shall I rest my soul, for it flutters in the salted winds
lost in thought of numb nothingness, watching exalted emotions , profuse confessions , broken lives, desperate privacy fade to black

trampled is the mind, assaulted even
lascivious images blaze reality, temptations abound
in a wonton breeze we sigh in despair to the shaded lies
accepted truths for comfort vies

lost, in search is my overwhelmed soul …..