Soundless

Spin clouds while trees turn their leaves underside
Don't wait to bear this obscene burden without sunshine

Your busy mind is occupied by the wordless chorus
Our mouths lie unspoken truths to each other

Staring deeply his eyes caress your naked shoulder
Lips unable to talk, cold air trembling with alcohol

Never dreams unfolding before we can reason
Tomorrow never comes and today never came to be

The ocher sunset fades with lasting haste
Subtle is the light over us before it is gone

Another place, just words in a song
Your smile, so precious
Just words in a song

Dream Clouds

There are no dream clouds in the sky today
Just a blank faded blue sky staring back at me

Yesterday I drove underneath them smiling
So easily lost in their looming shadows

They marched like wild water buffaloes
Grazing on sunshine across the stark blue

Today they've moved on to another pasture
Burdened am I by their loss, but silent

Still they march and still they carry on
The stampeding herd welcomes all souls
The tokens they carry match those that I hold
No matter how far they run they'll never grow old
My heart holds them closely forever I'm told

Those dream clouds held so close to my soul

Drifting Aware

The water bugs play
A lake so calm after last nights storm
Rain lightly falls amidst the sunshine
Wading deeper and farther, still calm lake
Plunging my head, covering my ears
Diving deep, surfacing back float
Dark to light, eyes skyward

Water plugs my ears
No sounds aside the pink tissue taking air
It comes and goes, it is all I can hear
Eyes neither open nor closed
Afloat with light falling upon me
Simple rain numbing my face

Awareness comes to me
It takes less and less effort to stay afloat
Without looking, carelessly spinning
Eyelids go from light to dark
Open and closed, morning clouds, inner self
Stark blue sky so crisp and apparent

Morning fog burns and leaves
Gracefully afloat, calm smooth lake
Wind crested waves from days past have escaped
Only this lake remains
Drifting, with only myself

Delicate threads unwind
Ears break water, day sounds life
Everything floods into my again whole self
This has come to calm my soul
My mind has taken ease upon the current
I am drifting aware
Minding my soul

Noise Trade Markets

etched mind vinyl spinning

same curved lines tripped

crackling over and over

same kind of sound

born inside of me tonight

the noise trade market

tumbling princess stocks

can't take face value anymore

misspoken words oft repeat

pressed records gone gold

left untaken from goodwill

stacks just gather dust

I wasted time before listening

throw them out once again

these can't be resold

no one wants them anymore

Weather with You or Not

Don't pretend to know where
hair so messed it is tragic
we're daunted by your opinion
trying so hard to understand

I've watched you before
dancing on a stage unapparent
reach out and grab these things
which you've been holding onto

Clocks stop workers today
light will always be there
blinding us come morning
curtains bring us together

Such is the night rain
that it comes down onto us
like tokens left at stations
tickets to somewhere else

Maybe to you it isn't new
but my eyes grow so wide
to a conductor watching me ride
he sees me and my foolish attempts

Wake me at the next station
you, the stranger, next to me
sitting unaware of what comes tomorrow
weather predictions often bring rain
if we wait, the sun may shine