Author Archives: Stephen Messer

Conquer Myself

A trailhead waits in the moonlight there
as I race down a highway to escape my despair.
I go onward and forward and faster towards
the mountains that will bring me unseen rewards.

The forest glows by the light of the moon,
And an eerie presence prevails as I arrive too soon.
for the journey is what this place is about
the journey to myself where […]

Lonely

No-one can leave
lonely and bleak
the outlook remains.

the only way to deal
with the isolation and pain),
though pained I am not

(there is no apparent pain).

I barely know of the affliction
though it troubles me still,
the hardships around me
they confine me and
they force me to face
a grim reality:

the reality of this illusion,
and oh god it’s so real!

Lonely and bleak,
the […]

Club

Pounding thing,
Artificial thump they call music
Is a beast and a noise
An aural irritant
Blithely it grates at my being

Some are inspired to move
None have their mind provoked

It isn’t art
It’s just a commercial
It pushes no boundaries
Supplanting the mediocrity
With the mediocre

It disgusts […]

Escape from Choice

Life’s changes come
expected or not
Sometimes we’re prepared
Sometimes we’re in a state of blissful ignorance
Or wistfully ignoring
the inevitable path our actions have led us to.

I fear not the coming end.
The escape from complexity
to clarity
or nothingnesss

Either is the greener grass on the other side

Uncontrolled

There is this agony inside that uncontrols me,
usurps my will for rational,
usurps my temporal being.
It uncontrols me, without revealing itself
to that being uncontrolled;
it hides itself
from me

it is me

it’s obvious to those around me
but only the closest;
only the few who can be hurt

Friends

Sometimes I wish that a moment
just wouldn’t end
It’s the moment when I look at you
and understand
without question you’re my friend

it’s when we laugh together
and challenge to do more
and better things than ever
we had done before

It’s in that moment that I know
you’ll always […]

Worth

Few things in life are worth
Living for.

Far more things in life
Are worth
Dying for.

Possibility of Dreams

I’m inspired by the impossible,
tempted by the improbable
prompted by the possible

the things that cannot be
I dream of

and take solace in the dreaming,
if not in the inactionable
things that cannot be

the things that may have a chance
should happenstance
have her way
tempt me

into continuing […]

Goodnight

Sleep eludes me
Leaves me to my thoughts
An incessant barrage
Of menacing
Sleep- depriving thoughts

That won’t let this weary body rest
This weary mind
Won’t let me rest
And enter that peaceful state
In which nothing matters
Nothing perturbs
Nothing distracts but dreams
That take me […]

Walk This Earth

To know this earth
I walk this earth
I walk alone
in the company of every
living thing around me

I walk the earth
to know this earth
To know myself
I walk alone
in the company of every
living thing around me

I walk the earth
to know myself