Aspire

Out of sync
With everything
You do
Two islands
Less significant
Less the same
Longing to know
To share the world
To inspire
And conspire
But blocked
Great distance
This vast
Crevasse
Between the us
In our worlds
Apart

Who creates
The you
The sublime
Structure in your
Mind
Your influence
Future
Decision structure
Matrix of
Youth becomes
Adult world
And where
Is the growth
Where are you
Going
To whom do you
Aspire

My infuence
Is minor
Much restrained
My experiences
Taking the lead
Options removed
Watching closely
Unrelenting changes
The impact
Of it all
Growing stronger
And yet
Not mine
And again
To whom
Do you
Aspire

Expect

It's raining out again
No score like the present
Verses in our hearts
Music from mind to reality
We tend to get what we expect
And so I know it's coming
But I cannot create
What I cannot dream
And so I know
There is little
I can really do
The sadness always does
What I thought it would
We tend
To get
What we
Expect

Miss

You say everything
Will be all right
But I'm unchanged
Because you've managed
To miss the point

Blowing out the candles
Grains of sand in the wind
Endings and forevers
And all the emptiness
That should never be

Agonizingly farther
Each step another version
Lives and minds apart
And somewhere within
Missing the point

The Loss

That was it then
There was no more
You had stopped
And so had we
In a sense
And yet we continue
Leaving behind
A piece of our
Will, consciousness, memory
Unable to describe
Even to each other
What we are missing
Or just where we hurt
Only that
What we are missing
Is you.

There is no more
An empty place
A lonely room
A lingering memory
Touching everything
Thru sight, feel, and smell
We sense the empty door
Never coming thru
Facing now
Only the ticking clock
Of what we all were
A life that was made
Better, because of your
Presence there
Now ripping a hole
In my chest

Going Home

Without a trace
Found without face
Round the corner
Failing to embrace
All that we should
Grappling with ourselves
Is hard enough
Too much to ask
Gaining on the rest
Is this all there is?
Here we are
But only for a while
Nothing remains
How did they do it before
But more important
It seems
Where are they now
Tells us, in the end
Where we are
Going

Law Abiding Citizen

Law abiding citizen
Forced into the lion's den
Wrestling from end to end
Carying a heavy burden

Whipping posts we shed in masses
And watch as meaninglessness gathers
Here we are, enlightened masses
Unaware, the goodness passes

Law abiding citizen
Unified held under pen
Waking to the bitter end
Looping 'round now here again

Taking aim the hammer falls
Smacking of the hubrus walls
Held against the will of all
Hammer strikes before the fall

Law abiding citizen
Striking back and getting even
Justice dealt in leagues of demons
By the hark we are revealing

Why Bother

Greatness comes in spades
Thankless, unwitting grades
Comes in many shades
Soulless, soundless fades
Unseen and unrelenting days
Spanning overhead, allways
Stealing vigor, leaving haze

Quealching without intention
Gravity of all who run
Resistance of the sun
Grasping, holding none
Asking and never done
Only a parable of apprehension
Achievement without mention