When Ya See Me

What do you see

Dream or Nightmare

Strength or Weakness

Noise or Silence

What am I like

Daft or Quick

Sentient or Waste

Rogue or Saint

What do you care?

Savage Peace

Just close your eyes

Let that darkness wash over you

Like the ocean pulling you in

Long tendrils,

Heartbeats

Sweet Sensations

As you lie suspended

That aggression is only skin deep

Destruction etches your soul

Throbbing rage,

Heartbeats

Savage Passions

As that rage consumes you

You feel what is animal arise

Feral hackles shiver down your spine

Burning strength,

Heartbeats

Brutal Needs

Question what is human

As that rage consumes you

As you lie suspended

Just close your eyes

Dark Clouds

Those dark clouds on the horizon

Speak to me

In a way no man can

Cityscape

Can you see the light

Blinking into the night?

Its not some distant beacon

Nor some furtive signal

Radio tower looms into the night

Its silhouette illuminated by its light

Sending out a high intensity beacon

Letting all know its loveless signal

Car drives down a water-slicked highway

Its body reflecting light a hundred feet away

Rain beats fast across the shining shell

As one man, one woman, one child listen

Hurtling steel takes man away

Down the similar self-reflecting pavement highway

The great gears turn, but the driver does not listen

His vehicle is his solid, physical shell

The great clouds above release their treasures

And fill with light, noise, pavement, steel

But Man remains

Can you see the cityscape?

ode to a clean house

in order to save our dusty souls

we waged war against black mold

and the ferocious spores

in order to win our fight

we shredded our house until all lay scattered

and the experts did their job

in the nature of reconstruction

we underwent the process of purging

and left undid all that was not worth saving

in the nature of purgitation

we found those things that had been purposely lost

and did our best to hide them again

in the house that we live

we have seen a reckoning

and breathe easy breaths

in the house that they built

we smoke decade old cigars

and listen to dusty firecrackers pop

Flag with Two Holes

We all want to become the bigger

The Better

The unfettered form of humanity

The Noble

For we are forgotten and unforgiven

The Shame

And we hold our love dear, write it out

The Flag

It holds and venerates all we cling too

The Pride

And we plan to wave it high, so to make a stand

The Joy

And we don't forget that history, that passion

The Passion

But we do forget that flag, that great reason

The Hole

And we pass over our human strength and power

The Dishonor

And claim to know that flag like no other

The Fake

And we begin to make our flag bigger than it should ever be

The Hole

And we have lost our flag, our way

The Loss

And those colors bleed

For Thee

For Lasting Sanity

I watch the shores on sand

Trace the lines in my hand

And wait for God

For Remaining Humanity

I pump blood way too fast

Become strapped to the mast

Dreams only

For Echoing Brutality

I clench my chains

I tear skies from planes

Sweet Explosions

For Lost Causes

I would like to stop

This is the way I drop

I am one