Waking life brings sleepless nights
Perplexing delimas cause writhing angst
Grip of the unknown so familiar
Landing once again in the same vicinity

Same transport different scenery
Not once stepping out to breathe in
Nuance of subtle change
Relishing in the dying mist of yesterday

Glare deep into the image
Solid smooth surface reveals
A creature of superb beauty and strength
Beneath the scars out of the ashes, rise

Gifted and spectacular, precious and rare
Admired by many, loved afar by lost elect
Distance and in shadow support and love sent
Through chaos, answers betide with strange peace

Paper thin people, deal paper thin words
Light as a feather, they carry the world
Release the straps, as it falls away
Stand forth knowing love awaits

       --C.H. June 14, 2008

Crowded room, empty space
Voices fill, lost in silence
Dig deep seeking recompense
Darkness stands firm in the Light

Shrouded in decadent designed flaw
Lfe of dreams left in wake of awe
Hand in hand with Lunacy's claw
Dazed and focused embraced by plight

Wide awake in deepest sleep
Wailing and gnashing in night's creep
Drift away, rotting in cold's steep
In the sun no heat nor light

Run blindly for love's arms
Collapsing, breathless, into living harm
Blood flows from fresh open scars
Eyes wide shut through an endless fight.

Dark roads, empty space
Stitched up mouth, fallen disgrace
Night moves, Light dissolves
Wait for the Ravens caw

Hands of ice and bone
Reach out for the toll
To ferry across home
Quenched fires within
Gift of life, named him Sin

Godforsaken avenue of  riven enchantment
Move forward no memory for lament
Weak fleeting breeze in the desert sun
Never knowing who or what it was

Lost forever in the flow of time
Never known, worse than to die
Empty palate of color bare
Love never came, do not care
Erased idea founded on a dare

Funeral procession for the dead
Empty casket, a moment of dread
Passing on in a reluctant hew
Awake from life, a deep sleep
Relieved that he you knew
Was merely a figment of false bereavement