Answers in the darkness

Answers in the darkness

Questions that come to light

Distance from our loved ones

Enemies here to fight

And stars that are long gone

Still sparkle in the night

All the colors combined

Produces only white

Start at the finish line

Start at the finish line

Work backwards from the end

Back down the same hillside

Just before the ascend

To the child left behind

To when the World was small

And dreams, big and bright, were

The answer to it all

Rhythms without rhyme or

Rhythms without rhyme or

Reason are waking me

Breaking the silence that

Was clearly meant to be

The World is wide awake

No longer sensing dark

Beside the nightingale

Is a rambunctious lark

For an instant, rejoice

For an instant, rejoice

The moment swells with grace

Life and light and shadows

Fall perfectly in place

Movement turns to dance steps

A song swirls in chorus

And a shy heart opens

And becomes more porous

A broken ornament

A broken ornament

A burn hole and dead spark

Here’s the conclusion and

The indelible mark

No vocabulary

A silent alphabet

Another Life finished

Another sun has set

The urgency, the rush

The urgency, the rush

Trying to get somewhere

The indifferent crowd

The few inches per square

Buildings shadow the street

Narrow pieces of sky

Pushing past equally

Determined passersby

Perhaps there’s nothing more

Perhaps there’s nothing more

Nothing behind the door

Gone, the existing floor

No chances to repeat

Perhaps what we hold dear

Are these moments so near

The joy, the thought, the fear

The striving to complete

Farms and the horizon

Farms and the horizon

Stretching from left to right

With the occasional

Oak announcing its height

Here where the land is flat

Sensing the curvature

The clouds casting shadows

On fields and harvesters

Even this memory

Even this memory

Begins to fade with time

The words no longer right

Motions becoming mime

Who spoke the last goodbye

I’m losing what was said

Images now ghostlike

And haunting in my head

Seeking eternity

Seeking eternity

With tomorrow unknown

The demanding of time

That is merely on loan

No plans for the evening

The sun has reached the ground

Seeking forever as

The day is winding down

Searching for the essence

Searching for the essence

A pure recognition

Mathematical truth

A sure definition

Fiber of my being

Beyond the bone and blood

The seed,  not the fruit nor

The flower or the bud

Nowhere an equal sign

Nowhere an equal sign

It just never adds up

Differences dividing

Worlds colliding, erupt

Can’t reach a decision

Elusive conclusion

No math in the feelings

No logic, confusion

Not a gem, not a pearl

Not a gem, not a pearl

Just a pebble, a stone

Not a tune for a song

But a hum, monotone

No monument standing

Or a great crescendo

Just a breeze or a wave

That begins and ends slow

Slowly, the forgetting

Slowly, the forgetting

Time washes us away

Like the crashing ocean

On beaches by the bay

Briefly, time together

Our little thread of love

Insignificant sand

With far more stars above

The magnolias have

The magnolias have
Flowered and cherry trees
Are covered in blossoms
With cool air in the breeze

Waiting for doors to shut
And the impending doom
Life can end in Springtime
When the daffodils bloom

The future before me

The future before me

Like a dangling carrot

Chasing the potential

All effort, no merit

The inevitable
A left or right hand turn

On a Mobius to

The edge of no return

What are these words breathing

What are these words breathing

They have inhaled me whole

Their lungs are expanding

And exhaling my soul

Spewing sound graffiti

On the World’s noisy wall

Like a melting snowflake

In a quick passing squall

We were without disguise

We were without disguise

And our hearts unguarded

In the midst of it not

Knowing when it started

Together all these years

It seems like yesterday

The perfect patina

The perfect molded clay

Unable to escape

Unable to escape

The ho-hum keeps humming

Where are the replacements

To keep this world running

Tired of the tedious

And work has just begun

No sense of victory

No jubilation won

No more friction trying

No more friction trying

Ceasing the resistance

Giving in, giving up

This constant persistence

Discarding dreams that waft

And never come to be

Hard to embrace ideas

Needing reality

Waiting to turn corners

Waiting to turn corners

Left to idle in place

The inevitable

At a slow, steady pace

Candles burning longer

Flicker but won't blow out

Echoes keep returning

In whispers from a shout

This is the gift I give

This is the gift I give

To myself, none other

It can’t be received or

Enjoyed by another

It’s wrapping paper, time

And patience made the box

Inside, full exemption

And keys to all the locks

Airplanes leave a scratch while

Airplanes leave a scratch while

The clouds are still as stone

My shadow as big as

A tree that stands alone

Watching the sun come up

The robins on the ground

Here at the start of day

The World has spun around

Again the blue, the blue

Again the blue, the blue
Stretching from end to end
The clouds without linings
The silver gone again

Searching for the yellow
That's absent in the scope
Blanketed by the blue
Surrendering all hope

It's too soon to move on

It's too soon to move on
It seems like yesterday
Time is frozen and still
With no signs of decay

For new generations
We remember the crime
And we have to move on
But we still need more time

In search of brevity

In search of brevity

Every syllable counts

Choice vocabulary

To achieve small amounts

Wrestling with the numbers

While striving to be clear

Measuring grains of sand

Like seconds in a year

Tenderness survives in

Tenderness survives in
A world that's hard and rough
Although harshness persists
Gentleness can be tough

The flower and the bee
The snail, the blowing seed
Moments of joy, answers
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