The Candle

A candle screams its yellow silence

And intermittent rasps

Into the smothering distance

In hapless flickering gasps

It offers its being to the flame

The flame flicks it into the sky

And in darkness, wilting, diminished

The candle wonders why

The flame unhinges grotesqueries

Upon its waxen skin

And cackles, 'this is you! This is you!

This is what you are within!'

Molten hate coalesces

Above a scooped out head

And drips down in spines of curdled whines

of death knell spawned dread

The candle wept hot anger at fate

The tears hissed at the wood

It screamed and the flame's naked dance

For a moment, suspended, stood

The candle thought, 'the battles I've fought

Have not brought wisdom nigh.'

The flame burns hot, but I seek the dark

Dare I ask, Who am I?'

The candle stood silent, stark

Grey-blue curves twisted and flexed

Time watched noiselessly in the dark

And the flame became a spark

Through a Blind Man's Eyes

I would like to see you

Through a blind man's eyes

A breeze softened by a downward smile

Warm solace laden with sighs

I would like to see you

Through a blind man's eyes

and fill the blackness of my gaze

with true love's warm embrace

I would like to see you

Through a blind man's eyes

See innocence, fear and beauty true

That in you, soul-deep, hides

I would like to see you

Through a blind man's eyes

And in a world sans light or color

Understand the skies

I would like to see you

Through a blind man's eyes

And not chafe my life as day and night

But feel memories grow and rise

I would like to see you

Through a blind man's eyes

That I may at last look deep and far

And see you for what you are

Fly With Me

Come, take my hand

Let's pace the shores of a mystery

Run backwards from a knowing wave

Kick away from the blue green sand
Into the arms of a gale

Come, take my hand

like dry leaves picked by destiny

Lets rumple through the sullen air

You soar right, I, left, you, up, I, down

And together, as one, our souls touch the ground

Come, take my hand

Lets watch the dance of lost centuries, in -

An ink and sparkle infinity's misty eyes

As the clouds applaud with thunder claps

Lets furrow snowflakes upon our laps

Come, take my hand

The valley is abloom, don't be shy

Let the sea lave at an amber moon

As a mountain stream with ankle-bells, tiptoes

Lets eat mangoes under a tree

Come take my hand

Its been a while, I know, let's fly

I'll sing you a story of a lullaby

Dreams are the after-light of memory

But a memory is a lifetime in a wink

Birthday Poem

In every heart there is a hidden song
That will sing itself to the skies
When, as you walk down a winding path
You choose to make your own

There are dreams buried within everyday dreams
Like fire within the jewel
Find the spark and set it free
And question reality at the seams

A birthday is not a day
Of musings solemn
See your world from the helm
and laugh your doubts away

Love, laughter, sorrow, pain
May you feel them all
And grow a thousand hues within
Like a forest hugged by fall

Life is just what you want it to be
And it will be what you are
So see yourself in your own light
Like nighttime's falling star

Into The Dreaming

In the forests of the dreaming
I wandered, aimless, in the dark
Time was lost and space was bound
The unreal stood naked, stark

Dark flames, persimmon leaves
Sleuthing through mist like orange thieves
A taste of sorrow, then a touch of light
I staggered through delirium to delight -

A forgotten smile found by memory
A lonesome candle growing teary roots
An intimate finger tracing a silken route
Lost lives that were meant to be

And then a veil like curtain fell
With the flourish of a serif-like hand
Then another fell, and then a thousand more
The dark settled like jaded sand

It was dark as the womb of the earth
Then a shade darker still
My eyes fluttered, frantic, lost
When softly by the window sill-

-The clouds flinted a cool blue hearth
And quenched darkness like hesitant rain
In that softened likeness of fluid rain
A silhouette was birthed

Carved by light from stony dark
An amalgam of truth and mystery
It was sans doubt the heart of my dream
Yet I knew not what it be

…it was you, asleep, and silently-
My dream grew brighter, warm
Your lips parted inadvertently
Passion rushed to me in a swarm

Your bosom rose and fell
To the simple rhythm of your heart
And the ocean’s ebb and swell
Kept time

The moon kissed the mountain tops
The valley deepened with a sigh
The wind sang to the meadows
Your toes wrinkled to a downward smile

I wish for eternal waking
To never sleep away this dream
To watch you sleep as reality
Laves at invisible seams

Lovely Dawn

I breathed in the vagrant breeze
in a lovelorn fool's hope
That it carries but a stray whisper
That would serve as my release

The breeze sighed itself away
And with it hope took wing
And I sat under a lonely sky
And heard the requiem for a dying day

Night dawned early
In an unbroken monochrome
The sullen moon rose -
Night's eternal company

The moon cast elusive shadows
The trees ceased to whisper
The birds dreamed of music
And furtive flights across green meadows

I closed my weary eyes
And the stars winked within
I dreamed of limpid pools,
still waters and lonely isles

In that dream of dreary longing
Your face echoed, rippled, bloomed
A smile fluttered into the skies
That grew brilliant at the seam

Mute colors metamorphosed
Into brillian raucous hues
Those sang of love and wonder
And solitude's bittersweet brew

I awoke to muted thunder
And clouds that framed your face
Your smile shone through moist eyes
The sun peeped out in a haze

Midnight's Footprints

You are the rhythm of my night

You are midnight's footprints

You walk a path all your own

A path everyone knows

One only I can follow

You are the rhythm of my night

You are midnight's footprints

I the twinkling sands of invisible time

You are a thousands folds in the veil-thin fabric

A thousand wrinkles

A thousand tiny paths that is one path

Uncounted verses whispering themselves

To the listening night

You are the rhythm of my night

You are midnight's footprints

In the sea of life, you are the effervescent wave

You define the rise and ebb of my life

As you shatter upon the rock of destiny

You rise to kiss the western wind

And the sea roars

The skies listen to the silent depths

You are the rhythm of my night

You are midnight's footprints

Upon the rock of destiny

You are immovable change

You are the wind and the shape

You are destiny's shaper

You are the sapling of hope beneath jagged crevice

You are the sculpture within

You are the rhythm of my night

You are midnight's footprints

Dawn will come

You will be etched in stone, baked in the sand

And forgotten

Dawn will come

You will be washed away, sifted over

And remembered...

Upon the leaf of a sapling

On the lip of a desert bloom

Within the heart of a cowry shell

You will blink

and drink up the dawn. Slowly.