Pocket Aces

I call you "Pocket Aces"
...though, you don't know what that means...
It's a silly thing for me to call you...
...but I think that's why I like it the most...

You are the rockets in my pocket...
...you are my chance to win it all...
My one shot to make it beyond this...
...My only wish is in your hands...

Although, I know your power...
...I keep your worth from everyone else...
If everyone knew what I had and who you were...
...you wouldn't be as special...
...our special bond would be shown to all...

When I called you "Pocket Aces"...
...you call me just another guy...
....with poker and beer and hardly a fear...
Just a man incapable of saying what he feels without metaphors...

Baby, I need you to know that I'm afraid of what the whole world thinks...
...because inside, I can't accept that I'm the best you'll ever get...
...so I hold you close and pray at night that no one will ever see...
Who you are, for what you are...
...better than anyone else can be...

I wonder

I can make you happy.
I can make you sad.
I can tell you love me.
I can tell you've got it bad.

I can make you breakfast.
I can make you laugh when you're at your worst.
I can find you the prettiest stone.
I can be honest when I say it pales in comparison to you.

I can write you a love song.
I can sing it without music.
I will always smile when I see you.
I will always hold you even when you're not around.

I lay in bed when I cannot sleep.
I think of many things.
I wonder what what you're doing.
I wonder if you're awake.
I dream that I'm on your mind, too.
I wish that you were mine.

I drive past the same old places.
I know they feel the same.
I am scared that I will never leave.
I hope if I do, you'll be there.

I thought of you again today.
I couldn't get you out of my mind.
I saw you in the store today.
I picked you from the faces in the crowd.
I waved to you and hoped you'd answer.
I bowed my head in disgust as you left me again.

I wonder if you know me.
I wonder if you've seen my face.
I wonder if you'd like my charm.
I am worried I'd scare you away.
I wonder if I asked you out.
I am sure you'd be reluctant at first.
I wonder if we'd click at first.
I wonder when we would.

I write this as a letter to you.
I mail it to the world.
I want everyone to read my words...
...so, I'll never have to wonder again

Internal Crisis at Christmas

It's hard to put a value on the moments in my heart...
...the pieces will stay with me, thought the feelings, they may not...
...It's hard to get a feeling when I'm living what I'm reflecting...
...but, it's that time of year, when every second is a memory...

I'm celebrating this Christmas in purgatory...
...every celebration is eternal, but inside, it's not the same...
I'm celebrating this Christmas in purgatory...
...where you'd think warmth is ok, 'til your unwrapping presents in the rain...
Sharing blessings with a ghost, semi-acquaintances matter most...
...when you're celebrating Christmas in purgatory...

How did I get here?
...when did it start?...
Did it happen in an instant or did the tortoise play a part?
It's hard to get excited, when you've known it from the start...
...the reason you're in purgatory...
...is because you never shared your heart...

I opened all my presents, not a single one stood out...
...just a dress shirt and some tube socks...
...neither of which will ever fit...
I stare into the darkness...
...rather, the never ending fog...
...and ask for Santa, one last wish...
...which will come through in the morning...

I'm no longer there in Sullentown...
...the afternoon mist no longer hovers over all...
My wish came true late Christmas night...
...and I find myself a month before...
...with a chance to let my true feelings show...

...and to let my Christmas miracle know...

The River

Waking up and searching…

…the clutter in my mind…

No closer to a decision…
…nothing visible to find…

It's hard to say for certain…
…when you do not understand…
The future ain't the present…

…not a game for you to shelve…

As for me, I've found the pieces…
…to deconstruct the madness in my mind…

…To put my feelings where they ought to be…
…in the bottom of my heart…
Yet still I lay here wondering what it is right now I want…
…Must I let my emotions take control here…
…or must my thoughts stomp the dreaming out?

I've been waking up and finding…
…my clutter dissipating every day…
…my mind is more efficient, able to make it through in its own way…
It's hard to say for certain, when you do not understand…
…that the future is not the present, just a gift fate to you…

Right now I see a river…
…well past where I am and where I've been…
…it flows freely well ahead me, sure to bend when I don't expect…

Finally, I can accept a life beyond what I can see…

…the rest of what will happen can only be determined by what I allow myself to be…

My clutter has been washed away…
…caught a jet stream years ago…

Yet sometimes I find myself back here, at the scene of the moment I can't let go…
…We all move forward from what we thought was so important in the past…

…but I know along the river, there's a spot where those visions will always last…

My river is more than a figment, or a dream, that's in my soul…
…It's place within myself where my being becomes whole…

My Mantra

Tell me there's a God above...
...and I will show you all my love...
Your delusions about eternity go right through me...
...and although you might not understand...
My will is strong and in demand...
...but I will be here always until you tell me...

Why is it that I'm here right now...
...and how did we become hallow...?
...In the rings of the moonlight, I was told so...
Why'd I think you'd have to be convinced...
...when you picked me up every time I missed?
...I'm just lucky that I found you, when I needed you...

I think it's cute that you believe...
..that every time we disagree...
A set of wings by the pearly gates will find their angel...
...and although I look to the sky with despair...
...in your heart you know I care...
In heaven one day, you know, we'll have a soul to share...

I know it's trite and I know it's lame...
...but this is how I played the game...
One day, I knew, I'd find out how to win it...
...but when you found me on the beaten path...
...to escape the monstrous verbal wrath...
...that awaited me in the glory of the defeated...

When we first joined together, hun...
...a simple kiss in the afternoon...
...I'd come to recognize in the daybreak, I was born anew...
You had saved me from the darkened road...
...I saw the sunlight now exposed...
...I confided with you my mantra in the landscape...

Be kind...
Have faith...
Believe...

And you will never, ever, be alone...

Hope

I've lost my hope...
...and with that, I've lost my soul...
...my sense of self, my sense of being...
Without the feeling of hope inside of me,
...I have lost my reason for living...
...my reason for being, my reason for doing...
Without the ability to dream for something within my sight lines...
...or even beyond them...
It's hard for me to summon the courage to withstand the horrors of daily life...

Losing the ability to dream has made me a mere moral...
...a peasant in the kingdom of life...
With the ability to be cut by the slightest of remarks...
...and to bleed until the remedy is found...
For the first time, I feel the cold of the winter and the sting of the moonlight...
...I feel pain in every facet of my being and my salvation of the unattainable dream has crashed into the never ending ocean...

So, here I am in the world...
...a singular being in the common place of the masses...
Having hope, and belief, in anything keeps the soul alive...
...but somewhere along the line I lost my way...
...and I haven't seen the path for miles...
I'm sad and scared, tired and alone, cold and cringing at the fact I'm no where near where I thought I was...

Never allow yourself...
...for one second...
...to think you may have found the most special and unique snowflake, in the most obscure corner of the Earth...

...you are only going to set yourself up for some major disappointment...

I have always thought hope was eternal...
...and in doing so, I've allowed myself to flourish under circumstances a person like me should never had the courage to confront...
...but now, I don't even see that same man...
...not a shadow, not a blur...
...and I'm afraid I've lost him forever...

I've lost my hope...
...and accepting that fact has allowed me to turn a corner...
...I don't know what I'm going to find yet...
...but I have to allow myself to see...

Who knows...?
...maybe I'll find what I've been searching for all along...

Defined

I'm a man with a plan

...you may not understand...

And, though, I'm not always be right...

...my future is still bright...

People always ask me,

"What is going on? You seem to be confused or amused, Everything alright?"

It's harder for to me to say every day and night...

...that my life is just a maze, the journey I won't fight...

Now, I'm the definition of the misconception

The one you always lean when you need reflection

But, still, I'm tossed aside when you don't need protection...

...I know I'm not a victim, but you're not higher...

...So if you stand there... you'll only fuel my ire...

I'd never cry to you

That should say something, but you're interrupting again...

What is that you want?

I can just no longer be here...

...it's time for me to have another dream you can haunt...

What is going on? Is everything alright?

I'm being here talking to someone who isn't there...

Now, is this because I'm the definition of the misconception?

The one you'll always lean when you need reflection

But, I'm just tossed aside when you don't need protection...

...I'm not a victim, but you're not higher...

...So if you stand there... you'll just fuel my ire...

Emotion-filled Shimmer

When I look back on the winding road...
...in the fog that is my mind...
You asked me how we got here...
...and I thought of it in rhyme...

For years, my life was a burden...
...massive weights upon my shoulders...
'Til I realized who my friends were...
...those masses turned to pebbles from giant boulders...

Amongst the carnage left from problems...
...of which I had no control...
I became a better person...
...from the strengthening of the soul...
And, although I was a stronger person...
...that didn't matter much to most...
They treated me almost lesser...
...almost all the new friends turned to ghosts...

More carniage, more danger, more cold and lonely nights...
...more sadness, more madness, more time for me to write...

When I was filling my self-loathing...
...out of the blue came someone new...
...with a brilliant mind and stunning looks...
...for the first time, I knew I'd make it through...

Out of the darkness came a shining light...
...and from the shimmer there came you...
With an open mind and open ears...
...my being felt renewed...

It's only the beginning of the path sundrenched with light...
...and, though, this part seems all too perfect...
...there's more darkness still in sight...
We cannot let future dictate what could happen in the now...
...this relationship will never perish...
...that's my promise, that's my vow...

How long must I wait?

Spin you around and reel me in...
It's hard to keep track of the path we've been...
We've been over it once, we've been over it twice...
We've been running in circles, no real ending suffice

It's hard to go forward,
When you're standing there still...
Even harder to say,
When the dream is impossible to fulfill...
My mouth is agape,
Waiting for the right words to come...
Lord knows, I can't say them now,
The time has past all too long ago.

What do you do when the train's already past?
How long do you wait there; how long do you stand?
I know I missed the 11:02, but I'll keep pacing here waiting...
...not knowing quite what to do

My chance was moment in time long ago
Waiting in the past, my current loves will outgrow...
...the waiting and endless of my wandering mind...
...the breaking and tearing of my too unique kind...

I search in the mirror and in there I know
The past of the future I will never bestow

...and never a sliver... and never a chance...
...and never a spell to awaken my trance...

It's time to leave this station, my ride is all but gone...
...time to find another transport from which my love will be drawn...

Sooner or Later...

Sooner or Later...
Category: Writing and Poetry

These moments are hailing in sandstorms…

…sooner or later the choices are mine…
To cover and hide from the fright of the norm…
…or embrace, open armed, the silence of the light

Bright eyed and blue jeaned…

…standing in the doorway…

…contemplating the reality of their next step…

In sightlines for a moment…

…but a fixture in your memory for days…

…Don't kick yourself, child…

…if it was meant to be, one of you would've made the move…

These moments are forever dripping from the heavens…

…you chance to escape the doldrums of your world and face the Earth anew…

…sooner or later the choices are mine…

For now, not casting a vote allows me to breathe…

Nose buried deep inside the binding of the book…
…as if to digest and retain every last image of information…

Sacred are the words that cling to the paper…

…praise be the pen, God's instrument from the soul…

…forever mightier than the sword…

These moments are a stomach punch to the heart…

…debilitating to the core…

The option was mine to take, but I'll forever keep my dreams inside my being…

…sooner or later the choices are mine…

The mantra from the head convincing my soul…

…when I should have known all along that the choices were always mine to take…

She can't make it hard enough for me...

…it's hard enough for me to believe I shot…
It was already my choice before I woke from my morning slumber…

…I chose to be afraid, to be timid, to not show my true feelings… my true self…

…I chose to let my choices control my demeanor, control my thoughts…

I chose to live the dreams in my head and cast reality aside…
…and when I finally decided to take that chance...

…to not be afraid, to not be timid and show you who I was…
…the moment was gone… forever

And again I'm not left unnoticed…

…I'm left again to my choices…

Pleading Prayer

I'm motionless and mindless

Watching my world float beyond my sightlines

There's not a wish in the universe under my control

...but I walk these steps as if I'm letting everyone down

I'm tragic and hopeless

Begging all too often for forgiveness

Apologizing every moment for the circumstances of fate

When I'll never see a handshake when the victory pulls through

I'm a melodic voice of a reason

Singing the sirens song from treason

My number is always on call

...and if you shall fall...

...I'll be on my way tuning my strings...

Whether it is known or not,

The people I love prey inability to control my willingness to be a hero

...a martyr, a saint...

I've realized it all comes down to one thing in this world

...and it's what makes us the most human

When it comes down to it,

All we want is to love and be loved...

...nothing else matters...

And, baby, if you have that opportunity...

...you do everything you can to make it work...

Never be afraid to feel...

...or to say how you feel...

...because once you stop doing that, it's over...

...and gone forever...

Be as honest as you can and things will be alright.

Trying to make things work for other people,

Is just about a million times worse than lying to yourself...

...and it hurts two million times worse, too...

In the end, you'll know what's right,

But it's hard to follow through...

So, think a moment and search your heart...

...and it will tell you exactly what to do

Shallow End Survailence

My lines re real
The words are see-through
My verse is spoken
No one can hear the words
Written in a hanger
Purgatory of the soul
Lost without its meaning
Here in the nothingness found its home

This is where I strum my air guitar

What's so funny about decision making?
Why do you make me make the choices in my mind?
Am I, to you, a burden...
...places in the chest when you are done?
Forget tomorrow, fellas, the game starts tonight.
When you're in the locker toom, I'm on the bench...
...'til I get my chance to make a play

Solo into closing

My fate has yet to find me, yet
...but I'm on the chosen path...
Can join me on the karmic team...
...where the world will will see our laugh