For Jade
To watch the daisies With someone who can see them Is To eat lavender ice cream with someone Who can taste it It is to watch the sunrise With someone who blends with Its colors You are love You are a bouquet of everything That makes my heart bloom Illusion Homicide
We are all murderers we’ve all killed time Illusion instead of letting it live yet we continue to wonder why it keeps running out why it isn't on our side I’ve had enough stabs at the clock to know that time isn’t the victim we are with our ignorant idea that killing an illusion will make us feel like we've done something worthwhile, while we feel no worth while everyone is sharing pain like turkey at the thanksgiving dinner where nobody can remember what they're grateful for while the most giving person you know accidentally gives you their grief in a beautifully wrapped box open it up and there's no return receipt just a simple goodbye as they run out with time by their side sometimes I wonder if this human urge for illusion homicide is some kind of sense of self defence because our subconscious knows living is just killing time before it kills you but if we give time a death with honor, maybe it will give us one too The Secret
Deep in the forest Far from you and me There is a secret the Light Will always keep Though it may be far away It is always near Though some may have forgotten It is always here Deep in the moment In front of you and me There is a Light The secret will always keep Conveyor belt
As I look out on the traffic filled Streets I apprehend the spinning By imagining the road is a conveyer belt And the cars are in park And when I get too dizzy I find myself in the checkout lane Where the grocery store clerk Looks at me like I’m crazy When I tell her these apples have wheels on them Have you ever thought about how heavy air is? The strongest man on earth Might be able to lift a car But would throw his back out Trying to raise the space in between And that’s what falling feels like The colors of the trees are changing again And the leaves have never looked more beautiful Than when they’re about to die For they do not resist gravity The way we do The way we grasp onto ourselves So we don’t fall from ourself Into ourself I look away from the cars in park at 60 miles an hour And tell myself that sanity Is not for the sane And I feel as open as a door that is locked When I remember that I cannot walk through myself And falling is an illusion the leaves are not victim of So I see myself drifting off of a tree And instead of trying to lift the air I let it decide where I land And when the first blanket of snow Covers me it does not offer warmth But I won’t resist the bite of the bitter cold For it will only go away If I return it with benevolence And see it’s cruelty as a kindness For the road to hell may be paved with good intentions But the elevator to heaven Needs maintenance And the devil does quite a good job at it Because the conveyer belt does not look like it’s moving Without a car parked on top of it And the car cannot drive without the solidity of the road The Moon
My mamma told me “Count your blessings” So I counted infinity I ran out of breath And told her Love is my only blessing “There is unspeakable light within the darkness” She would say “Why do you think the moon is so wise?” I tell her “Mamma the moon is wise because it shines” I always loved the night “So when the stars Come out to cradle you Within their lullaby I will always be here Always... Safety is fearless
Safety is fearless Fearlessness is caution Watch your step But don't spend your life Looking at your feet Freedom is the moment The moment is Love Be aware of your surroundings But don’t let them take over your awareness The wind is the earth The earth is the fire The fire is the water In this endless ocean You must sink to the bottom To rise to the top Odysseus and the Cyclops
I am both Polyphemus And Odysseus My reality is the cave Half of me desires escape While the other captivity I am fighting both sides of a dichotomy where neither wins Until I admit I am both Yet neither I am no man When you have two eyes, I’d like to think, The first is for love and the second for hate The cyclops only has one and it glistens with evil Ironic how blinding it will help me escape my blind rage Polyphemus the ego Odysseus the rare individual Escaping the trap of a Contradictory honest deception He is no one And the cave is society I fear too many people die Without ever seeing sunlight The Heart Beats True
Are we infinite? Is mortality an illusion? Is everything a metaphor for God? Are we ancient? Are we brand new? Are we both? Are we neither? I’ll spend my life Asking these questions Only to find laugher As the answer Every time There’s this thing Called the heart It beats True And the music Will give you chills Everytime Follow the sound of the drum Beyond the Scenery
There is a window but the transparency has been painted over with a scenery in colors the shade of illusion And there is a blade Though viewed as a weapon Upon scratching the surface of the window A light has been revealed A light so blinding it teaches you how to see Who knows what else lies beyond the scenery Home
I fell into my own arms A warm gentle embrace She picked me up And offered me the rain I fell with it She set me down And offered me the sun I rose with it The blooming of ten thousand purple flowers Do you hear them singing? To dance to their song is to open with them Bloom my love May your breath rise with the sun And fall with the rain For every inhale Is brand new The daisies
The body is temporal Moments intrinsic Life is an instrument Each note a new breath Created by the silence That lives beneath sound To invoke The ethereal Is to settle within the silence Become the sound To be the wind Soft against the skin of reality Can you breathe into her transparency? Become her invisibility? The voice of silence That neither ends nor begins Life is the music she gives birth to With every breath I begin anew As I settle into timelessness Of the enchanting drumming of the pulsing heart of reality I close my eyes And dance The clock forever turns its hands in circles Yet in the center Remains still Consciousness is a building of infinite doors Step out of the doorway Flow through yourself into yourself You are the building The tunnel in the hourglass the sand passes through Settle into the heart of the heart The truth of the truth Follow the light And the light will follow you In a single drop of water I drink the entire ocean In the entire ocean I taste the fountain of youth I am the sky a newborn baby awakens to Such light I am the baby Watching myself rise over the earth in colors blue and pink I am always brand new Fearless dark
When will the sun rise? For it is day But the stars still shine I am listening to their voice of silence Can you hear it? We are in the middle of a masterpiece Can you feel it? We are moving the fastest And the slowest Pace you could ever breathe I’m traveling at the speed of stillness And it brings me to the light It shines With all its rays Of fearless dark Swimming in the mystery of it all Sinking Gives me wings |