HELL

of all the pain and sorrow
in the world
at any given moment
is there a consciousness
that perceives this collective sorrow?

What consciousness could bear
the weight of such sorrow?

a collective consciousness
of pain, sorrow, suffering...
is this HELL?

desperation

this lonliness
hurts
frightens
I feel cornered
driven
to fetal withdrawal
desperately clinging
to
a lost child

SURROUNDED

if I weren't hurting
if I weren't in pain
if I were with the one I loved
would I appreciate
the love i've lost
would I pay homage to
love gone by
would I realize
how surrounded by love
I once was
So
where in love
Am i now?

ROSES

Am I bleeding?
I smell roses...
so beautiful
this blood spurtting from my wounds
quenching the ground of its thirst
puddling at my feet
Roses...
I smell roses

SURRENDER

Faint
are the whispers
of sweet surrender
barely audible
passing thru the lips
of vulnerability
Wholly revealed
transparent
freed from paranoid concealment
having nothing left to hide

HEARTS with WINGS

Fly with me
Fly
on the wings of aspirations
Fly
Not to a heaven above
but
down under
we must descend
visit the Lady
below
her voice
silently murmurs
A sound unheard
but felt
reverbrates in Hearts
attuned.

Hearts with Wings,
Fly!

DREAMIN with RACHAEL

We drive till dark, pull over
your head on my shoulder
the hum of traffic going by
lights flashing, sweeping us away
we drift silently, enter the dream-world
traversing regions unknown
together, hand-in-hand, dreamers
running, tripping in a down-under land
waking on sun's piercing rays
to a reality fabricated from
images lying dormant in time

DREAMWEAVER

My Soul
leads me into agony.
She cause me to walk paths
whose ends,
I will never know.
She taunts me with delights
of a woman
I will never embrace.
Far-away Princess,
companion
in my nightly visions,
can we not
push the boundaries,
elude
fixed perceptions
and weave a new fabric,
you and I?
A New Heaven...
A New Earth

Dream with me
but for awhile,
if we should meet
before we wake,
our Souls, outwitting,
Fate.