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Life is Paper Thin

I recount the ones I’ve lost 

Those who have preceded me 

Their achievements turned to smoke 

Their memories into ash

And their happiness evaporated from our hearts 

Life is paper thin

Each moment I hold dear…Each breath I esteem 

My soul stands indebted 

For their sacrifice of death has made me whole

Memories fade, many never remembered

Cease to ever exist, like words on paper charred in flame

Yes, life is ours to live, but not ours alone 

For we are all pilgrims, our journeys brief 

And memories is all we’ll ever be 

Life is paper thin

Fractures of Her Love

It kicks, it blows, it soothes 

Yet, you remain the same 

Slowing it’s movement across your face 

And that’s where I find you most delicate

Most pleasing, most dazzling, yet most vulnerable 

And with this my heart flutters with excitement

My eyes fixated, my brain clear

The waves of your bosom untouched by it

Like mountains of steel unmoved

My eyes have behold what my heart and soul desire 

My beloved

It is the wind

It exposes you more than you know 

Immortal

For those who have become immortal 

Did you even know?

For frail are we

And die we must 

Yet, you live without cease 

And even if my eyes wander, I still still see you looking yonder 

For your name drums in my ear 

And our lips refuse to let you rest 

For those who have become immortal

That your greatness was for freedom 

Or just plain curiosity 

And for this we’ll never let you go 

For we dear not outlive you 

And so it may seem

Immortality is just for a few 

Unforgiving Death

Is this the end? 

Is this is how I say goodbye? 

For I fear I have not lived

Feared to express who I truly was 

Feared to express who I wanted to be

Feared my own deserved happiness 

My life, I offered willingly

Lacked the courage to say no

Given to those undeserving 

For expectations was my folly and lunacy my comfort

I am indeed at the end 

My life, insignificant and empty

And just like that I feel the light taking me away 

For death never forgives, but weighs that which we have lived 

And nothingness will be my place of rest 

Shiki (Seasons)

When the oceans quiet 

And the cogs refuse to move 

My soul shivers with nothingness 

This silence drives me mad 

For I am truly alone 

Like winter days when I long for you 

My heart melts like ice of early spring

And so my eyes constantly tear as summer would have me be 

I need you now

But what we had is withered

Fallen from grace like leaves of autumn 

For these branches are dead 

And the beautiful green shall be no more 

Within

It is within your arms, I find

Within your smile, within your kindness, I find

I find

The love I have longed for 

The attention I crave 

The heart of mine you see pure 

The forgiveness of self I deserve 

The wisdom of my mistakes 

The fears I’m paralyzed by 

And the remorse I feel for my sins 

It is within you that I find

A heart of gold 

One that reinvigorates my dormant soul 

The emotional connect I crave 

It is within your arms

Within your smile

Within your kindness 

Death as an Infant

Taught likes sever the spirit 

And what is left a battle 

Dredged in filth for we’ve been smitten 

Pervasive internal eternal decay

Death as an infant 

Taught likes an addiction

For greed knows no bound

And withered we’ve become, long before our three scores and ten 

Stars of Mine

When our souls blow in the wind 

And our memories fill the stars 

For our dreams scatter the universe

And dust we’ve returned  

For second chances are a myth

All shall rest in the bosom of uncertainty 

All but none 

They that indulged in the affairs of wine and meat 

And those that scraped and lived beneath 

For the stars refuse to differentiate 

Our achievements made minuscule 

For it may seem that life and death are both unfair 

Promise

Look at me, l am naked

Is this what you want to see? 

Your tears on my shoulder, my body you hold close 

But what would you have me do?

Men have promised, put a ring on it

Yet, I stand here bare before you

For my heart is burdened, and my soul is weak 

And my strength to love has ceased

But something in me tingles for you 

Then you cried, and you said 

“It’s been forever that I’ve been naked before you” 

Melody

Drops strung together like threads 

When peaceful silence rains

You Jazz, you Blues, you Funk 

But today you Soul these streets 

Your rhythm knows no bounds 

But not everyone can hear these sounds 

For they have eyes only for that Rock 

That rises at the glimpse of twilight 

Like Reggae, your presence stirs my might 

With rhythmic beats and infinite drops 

Surrendering my love to you 

As I’d often do with Pop