Your Way

Many paths walked

And avenues wandered,

Problems I've solved

And puzzles I've pondered.

A life lived in answers,

But the questions unknown,

The journey is endless

When you continue to grow.

Eagles have eyes,

But the present cannot.

When none know your history

They don't know what you've got.

What you've earned with your efforts

What you've paid to pave the way.

Who you are from your learning,

Where you've been in your day.

Take a page from your future,

Know your ways with a smile,

For where you travel next,

Only you know the miles.

And for the blind present

That knows nothing of you -

It is their disadvantage

When they assume what is true.

A Memory

Delusion,

You sit like a thorn in my mind,

You ache like a muscle torn,

You moan like a whore at work....

Dissolution,

The night is clear as day,

My dark friend went away,

Music brought me absolution....

Performer,

Weave a spell for unbelievers,

Tell a story like a seizure,

Give 'em hell for secrets hidden.....

Singer,

Trapped and born, wrapped in scorn,

Lit by blazes, warped by hazes,

Your throat is now my trumpet.....

Loner,

You were always on the stage,

Unwashed and slightly dazed,

For your mind remains a maze.....

Woman,

Hellbent fury, sound and violence,

Never visited by silence,

It is your sound that heals your world.

The Storm

A restless heart beats in the night,

A lonely hand scratches with a pen in silence.

Quiet candles softly flicker in the gloom,

And a clock ticks dreadfully,

Beats time sinfully,

A word turns to an image of doom.

Wandering eyes search dark corners

Turning inward, seeking phrases,

Fettered by letters and a marching mind,

And the rain starts painfully,

Thunder rolls disdainfully,

And the rhythm of the darkness is unkind.....

"Dear Mum,

The power is out again due to another storm...."

In The Desert

Wandering through the desert dunes,

Winds shifting the sands,

Making roads with its hands;

I burned for water,

As the sun burned my shadow,

And dust felted my mouth,

While heat turned me hollow -

Mirage teased my eyes,

Sought more water for tears,

Yet I walked on for years,

I broke the silence

And howled at the moon

I was swallowed by darkness

A moment too soon.

Twilight

'Twilight'

The sky grew dark,
The light grew dim,
And only stars could see
The world turned blue,
With twilight hue
Around the lonely tree.

The water stair
Flowed without care
As silence hurt the night.
Knowing by day
The world would awake,
And be restored by light.

ZS

Evasion

Sweet moon, fail now to dog my steps
As I blunder in darkness,
Stumble and stagger,
Weaving your light blinds me to madness.

Let your rays fall onto oceans and deserts,
Forests of treetops,
Fields of long grasses,
Not on the road that I must now travel.

Bring me the shadows that I know as home,
Candles and muses,
Paintings and incense
Light should not follow me as I roam.


Next time I won't drink the cab fare....

Sorrowful Heart

Sorrow broke the savage heart,
For denied was it to thee,
And rage was caught all unawares,
Within a dying sea.
Mirth could not give it succour,
Nor pity mend the jagged tears,
And nor could the stars of darkened night
Bewitch to light the hopeless stares.

No breath of wind could move the weight,
No blow could break its hold,
And stillness rocked the heart to sleep,
And dreams of bitter cold.

One day I'll find my hairdryer again....

Beyond Time

Broken words lay scattered on the floor,
Shards of glass from the clock
Lay weeping by the door.
I opened the gate and swept all bare,
For there was no way out
With all that lying there.
Rain came and washed away the night.
I slept with heavy heart
Yet awoke with no regret.

A fresh page, unending lines,
This time the poem is all mine.
No hour leaves my sight again,
No minute wasted by the pen.
The book I write has truth for its spine
Bound and tempered beyond time,
And I shall rest here in its pages,
Without the sorrow of the ages.

Past and present are within.
Only the future begins again.