Writer II

Writer II

Restless, I now set here

A feeling of despair

What becomes of this career?

Time wasted, disrepair.

It’s ok, I must say,

see the brightness outside

To do, to be, maybe pray

For strength from inside

To continue writing, my thoughts unbound

Embrace the spirit of the craft

To write is one thing, unused sound

To weave the writers’ path.

Writer I

Writers I

What is it, to be a writer?

Creator of worlds unseen.

Within the sensory winds

Imagination, only.

writing, as an art,

Like a painter's brush,

A programmer's code.

Paints a portrait of what's not there.

Or illuminates the darkened sense,

Light to things unknown.

Creators from nothing,

Truly, in fiction, a personal world.

In fact, interpretation.

Analysis, our own sight.

The writer's trade, financial suicide?

Starving artists are our cousins,

cold, setting in the dark.

Quietly, or loudly, always do we

ply our trade to the masses.

I'm A Lebowski, You're A Lebowski

I'm A Lebowski, You're A Lebowski...

Fuckin’ A, Man, Can’t Be,

Worried About This Shit

There’s More To It Than Me

Getting, Indeed,To the Right of It

We Can Forget Our Deepest Low

Our Bad Thoughts and Emotion

If We Gather Our Friends and Bowl

Psychological Deconstruction

Cars Are Stolen, Rugs Peed Upon

Our Bodies May Be Beaten and Sore

But Unwavering Are We Led On

We Can’t Abide the Aggressions of War

There’s No Need For Us to Fear

To Be Harsh and Most Crude

When We Can, Instead, Clearly Hear

The Words and Wisdom of the Dude.

Equality

Equality

Let us pretend, just a while longer,

That we love one another stronger.

Nature itself cannot cut this tie.

Truly not, though society tries.

Let us pretend, just a while longer,

that those with unmet spiritual hunger.

Leave us be to love one another,

As honestly and faithfully as any other.

Let us pretend, just a while longer,

that we cannot be torn asunder.

Those who thump books contest hotly

Cannot truly understand inspired divinity.

Let us pretend, just a while longer,

that all are embraced by the divine judger,

regardless of the laws and norms of men,

who blindly follow their fathers’ ill content.

Let us pretend, just a while longer,

the condemners will see their blunder,

Judge not, lest they be judged wanting,

Wandering the constant fire, ever burning.

Let us pretend, just a while longer,

that we love one another stronger.

We who are true to the Spirit’s intent,

living lives quietly and boldly content.

Builders

Builders

Cast we were in molded clay,

infused with breath and life.

Sent upon this land, to stray,

with conflict, peace, and strife.

Conflict, it seems, builds the man

though what indeed would be said?

By that which unfolds the Master Plan,

To expand, to live full lives instead.

Working towards our future goals,

ignoring the beautiful today,

we strive towards distant Poles,

Ignoring that before us today.

All we have is God and Now,

eternally we must connect

to love, to live, remain unbowed

to avoid becoming careless wreck.

Nature's True Gift

Nature's True Gift

How to describe what you are

the call of something wild

like a wolf crying to the moon

the call of freedom

the ocean spans the globe

ever caressing the shore

sometimes harsh, sometimes gentle

always true, to self and others

Do I call you love?

the feeling within the chest

capturing your moments of solitude;

together, nature-blessed

Peers young and old speak of you

though some seek to capture you

I seek your warm embrace

my love, my freedom

Placing yourself, oh freedom

you, a friend to all, they seek you

these places, many more, too

have known your presence

Do I indeed seek you as they do?

Are these feelings of truth, no vanity

No ego, or am I deceived?

I fear the true answer.

Others will love you as I do,

Others have loved you as I do,

With equal respect and yearning

What came of these, past and future?

This call of the wild

at once natural yet foreign to me

what answer can I find to satiate

this call to be free?

To cast away your shackles

bonds which bind you down

without insult as to your self power

yet show that I, indeed, care.

One not needing safety

strong on your own, self-determined

yet my instinct does call me

action of protection, guardian

I seek your company, oh freedom

the road before is an exciting one

natural and artificial wonders, behold

together, more special, shared sight

Take my hand, share my embrace

I seek nothing more, when you’re ready

walk side by side with me

we’ll journey along together

my love, oh freedom

Remembrance of a Warrior

Remembrance of a Warrior

Remember me,

though at times frustrating.

Remember me,

for my constant hesitating.

Remember me,

as I sometimes made you laugh.

Remember me,

when we were both fellow staff.

Remember me,

when I angered you.

Remember me,

when I comforted you.

Remember me,

As my world burns.

Remember me,

As the north wind turns.

Remember me,

As my body lies ruined.

Remember me,

Because my spirit remains fluid.

Remember me,

When I am no more.

Remember me,

As you've done before.

Remember me,

Because I loved you.

Remember me,

I remain forever true.