Contrasts

Everyone has opinions, not everyone has a voice

Everyone has options, not everyone has a choice

All would live forever, but everybody dies

All would hear the truth, yet everybody lies

Absolution

One morning, as I was walking through the valley of the shadow of death in downtown Reykjavik, I came upon the fragments of a broken childhood fluttering about in the wind.

The unspeakable made into words,

a life lost before it began, 

a betrayal of trust,

sorrow.

The cancer of hate and bitterness will consume you from the inside out if you don’t evict it.

Absolution is forgiving those who have harmed you, not because they deserve it but because you do.

Know yourself, love yourself

Love more, not less.

Hate less, not more.

the last kiss

a world ends
not with a bang
with a whimper
as one world ends
two begin
as we part
beat still my silent heart
love more, not less

Once upon a dream

Half awake - half asleep, torn between the dragons and the deep
Racing moments, fleeting thoughts, shattered fragments of what never was

"Step into my web" said the spider to the fly
"No" said I, "I would fly but you would have me still!"
"Not at all" she replied, "I so declare I positively never will"

So I stepped on her web and got stuck as a fly, never soaring, never free nor again flying high

"Why?" said I, "you promised I would live!!"
"Alas" she said, "I am a spider and I can but offer you what all spiders give"

Her fangs pierced my arm as I pondered all this, her eyes full of sadness yet clouded with bliss
I awoke with a sigh - still alive, wide awake
While etched on my arms were the marks of a snake

Lullaby

Spanking doth soothe the savage she
The sound of your cries doth comfort me
As one by one your tears like rain
The deepest love is laced with pain

Soothing the sound that silence breaks
Strongest the will as your body aches
As one the two that still remain
The deepest lust is laced with pain

Born in the shadows the reddest rose
Out in the fields where enjoyment grows
Collapsed in a heap but half insane
The deepest trust is laced with pain

Uncomfortable truths

Honesty without kindness is cruelty
Strength without love is but a lie
Poor is the man with no emotions
Some tears are forged for you to cry

Manifest

To lay you down upon my lap
Caress your naked thighs
Playfully your arms entwine
A devil in disguise

Something old yet ever young
The hunger in your eyes
To feel the softness as you shine
A sun about to rise