Category: Poetry

Don’t let me fall in loveWith a strangerPermeating my mind like a blissful marinadeYou serenade me with your melodyWrapped up sweetLike the chocolates in the candy shopI can’t look away  I can’t get youOut of my head, noI can’t vacateYour smile, your faceBut I’ll try I don’t know youDon’t know if I willWonder if you…

Oh, thank youThank you Mr. MorrisFor your little scandalThat’s raising every eyeOh thank GodFor people like you, butExcept for His graceI guess there go I You’ve become the talk of the townAll the churchgoers wear a frownI wonder if they taught moralityIn your seminaryAs they fill the pewsWondering what you’re going to spewPicking the specks…

Like a floating vaporI glow unknownNo one knows where I come from Like the subtle windBlown across her hairYet I pass through her unknown I feel so unrealImagination unpeeledWith nothing left than a shriveled rind Like the grass that growsTrodden and stamped bareSeasons change and my flesh is torn I feel so unrealNo substance here…

These desert shrubs cannot compareTo the ancient pines of my home beforeIf my Lord wills – I will returnI shall be raised up from that place My years are hard and they’ve been fewThroughout these dunes I sojourn onI feel naught but nostalgicEvery time I see your face A cool breeze in this barren landIs…

Here from the ends of the planetHere in the depths of the coveMy hands reach up to the sky for Your loveWondering if You can still hear me Lead me up to Your rockThat rises higher than ILift me up and out of this darknessPolluting my sullen mind Sojourning this desolate planetCrippled by schemes of…

Shine light in the kitchen and the roaches will runCause they’ve having too much funMunchin’ on the crumbs and dirt scattered on the floorWondering “Where’s there more?”And though I once was a bug on the groundI can’t bring them out to the Light I’m weak and poor and pressed on all sidesJust trying to lead…