Category Archives: Personal

Amends

Why am I scared
to make amends?
To let go, move on,
stop holding on to this
in fear?

In the end, it matters little
what I held so dear.

When in death
it becomes
abundantly clear,

that the mental gymnastic escalations
of thoughts eternally bound
to internal consternation

that, in effect,
will reflect,
then reject
all modicums
of self-respect,

Ahead or Behind

I’m not sure if my best times are ahead
or behind me,
the anxiety of not knowing
has blinded me
to the possibilities of what could come to be;
possibilities that continue to elude me.

I don’t know how my worst times
have shaped me, or shaped my mind.
To that I’m inevitably blind.
And though I seek out happier thoughts,
they’re all just memories,
of a life […]

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 […]

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

Shadow and Light

Fearless promises for what would come,
who is amused, if not me?
Past debris, ashes, complete;
feel the course of
constant pounding nature,
the knowledge, the inner tumult
tangled,
leaping out without outlasting
it’s own evanescence.

Its own demise.

Before, there was more than I.
It was just this scene, […]

Haiku 2 – April 13, 2009

rise sun bring new day
woken but not awakened
when true wisdom comes

Haiku 1 – April 13, 2009

glowing orange clouds
morning light sets all aglow
sun brings wakefulness

Haiku 1 – April 11, 2009

roll the miles away
two-wheeled freedom enriches
pedal, pedal on