Where is the key

I'm sorry

I don't understand

you wave your hand

I wave my hand

but your words I don't understand

I speak from commands

inside my brain

and I am vain

and I'm in pain

and the freeze is back

and the speech I lack

My brain is blocked

I cannot see

and I am locked

and where's the key

WHERE IS THE KEY?

Dec 20th, 2012

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Poinsettia (Diamante)

Floral

Red Petals

Pointed, poignant, leaves

Bright, bold, blossoms

Alongside

The Tree

December 24th, 2012

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Gumby

Strung along

like a green string bean

like a Gumby

In a vending machine

Waiting for

the coin to spin

while another pin

pokes into the doll

Rise and fall

And ride

and crawl

and bend and bend

Gumby needs to mend!

or is it that?

or not at all

about the rest

Is it perhaps a test?

just a great big test

to bring out the best

from the boarded chest

December 5th, 2012

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Broken Daisy Chain

Broken daisy chain

Out in the rain

Corner of the sidewalk

Shoes beside

Should one hide

Hide away forever

Away from endeavor

If it says; Loves Me Not

November 16th, 2012

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Machiavellian Loyalist

Machiavellian loyalist

you claim to be truth

though I see right through you

and you're calling me uncouth

It hurts when you believe your lies

I know what is truth in disguise

I wish I could not see it but

I know the door you're keeping shut

On and on, in your mind

your are so very blind

no you cannot see

what you will not see

When you refuse responsibility

for it brings liability

unscrupulous to the extreme

calling me off the beam

As if it's not bad enough

to abuse the concept

you have to abuse the human heart too

on my head is your shoe

Oh so subtly

when I oppose you and

try to be free

November 6th, 2012

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Decoy

Initiation

devoid

timing and turning

decoy

Stonewalling, artificial haven

stonewalling

calling on the raven

Don't remember how

to do

something all on ones' own

when it's hard

when it hurts

when one's weak

when there's dirt

under the rug

or so feared

that it leers

Guiding light is

devoid

it's only a decoy

to a winding circle trap

going round and round in loops

So where is the loophole

because one can't be seen

there seems no other option

and another day is done and mean

Looking up at a star

that is very hard to reach

steps of fire, 1000 degrees

up with aching knees

Can it be really done

what about lifting a ton

when your child is pinned underneath

what about walking over hot coals

So grit your teeth

no, no, no

that has been done

and they are all broken now

so why not take a bow

and out

and find a different way

but where and how

can it be found

amongst the silent sound

Of the shadows

over fallow

of the devoid

of the decoy

October 28th, 2012
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Fireflies

Fireflies

flickering by

ping, ping, ping, ping!

it is perfect music

Second there, second gone

light was shone

then the dawn

fell upon

In a box

in a house

be a mouse

scavenging

ravaging

crumbs are all around

There is not a sound

and silence is abound

so is the heart, away

with nothing much to say

Can't see fireflies

that want to dance

that want to play

from night to day

show the way

with pure harmony

passion disarming

Flicker, flicker, flicker

where are you?

thicker, thicker, thicker

is the fog

is the glue

Stuck in the box

glued to the door

can't see out the window

can't understand a bore

Cannot rearrange the chairs

to the wooden table

shadows cannot help

and weakened muscles are unable

Wasting, wasting, wasting

tasting and distaste-ing

basting, basting, basting

without fireflies

October 28th, 2012

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