My memories, they are fading
Pictures of old days are rusting
Memories used to be cascading
Now, they are just crusting
Maybe I’m just getting older
And things I’m starting to forget
Old traumas no longer smolder
For my sins, I did repent
I walked on a cold, misty night
Reflecting on my life thus far
I have given my life to Christ
Made wishes upon shooting stars
When released from behind bars
You could say I was born again
I’m better, but still have the scars
From a life devoted to sin
The hand and the shadow. As the sun sets, light fades through the window. The angular shadows beckon me closer. I reach out with my finger, looking to meet my Shadow Self on the wall. Seeking to integrate those parts of myself I deny and push down. What happens when I touch the Shadow Self?
Hand seeks the shadow
Shadow reaches to the hand
My two selves’ touch
Washing in the river. Washing myself clean. Clean of the dirt and grime of a society gone mad. This is the way of my ancestors, to wash in the river away from the frenzies of the city. The water is cool, and my blood runs ice-cold when I step inside. I feel the purity of the saints.
River cleanses me
Of evil impurities
Baptismal waters
Self-doubt devours us,
uncertainties and distrust
of primeval dogmas that
failed us wretchedly
charlatan gurus claim
to cure me of fragility,
but steal my virtue,
leave me trembling in
hollow ghettos
The man with many faces
A chameleon he is like
He adapts in many places
He’s always giving advice
His faces change so subtly
It seems only I have noticed
His countenance changes utterly
As a con man, he’s the greatest
We fade into the night
Watch us drift away
Our disappearance ever so slight
Please, don’t be afraid
We return in the morning
But fade again in darkness
Nighttime is for mourning
In skies always starless
Dead poets hang
from shrunken trees:
ring-a-ring-a-roses,
a pocket full of posies,
singing dead songs,
lyrical flames ignite
numb corpses
Obsolete language from
skull faces, pensive troubadours:
satchels with free verse,
in a universe
devoid of logic
