Free Fall

Free Fall                 10/13/2016

Sliding metal

Locks into place

Swinging on a hinge

Sideways and shut.

With no way in

And no way out

The evil of the heart

Wet, Sticky, and black.

Unable to lose

And unable to bend

Burning everything down

In a twisted, spasm of rage. 

A dead ender

Long on the run

Doing all they can

While they can. 

Deceiving who they will

And burning them all up

Used and abused

All the way up

And all the way down. 

Chewed up in war

Or stabbed in the spine

The unconscious meat

Sliding on the ice.

We have all walked through it

Whether we understood or not

The terrible pageant of deception

Mere pawns in the play. 

And many have sought escape

And buried their head

In their hands

Desperate to sleep. 

We count their names

And pass the coin

Each one to say goodbye

The long way around. 

Daily life

Drags on

But we were born

To see this through

Turning twice

Or turning blue.

Held in place

And trapped in time

Cascading downward

Head over heels. 

Colder

Colder                                         10/12/2016

731 days before

Two years plus the jump

A mid-point of the sun

Divided and dark. 

Many did not know

And many did not understand

Where the nightmare began

And just how it shall end. 

Yes we believed

And yes we all tried

Hitched up and ready

Running with all our strength.

One thing ended

And then another began

Saving us all

For another day

And another battle. 

The good fought

Against themselves

Suffering and striving

Over nothing at all. 

Coaxed, prodded

And paused before the fire

We are made

And then extinguished. 

God only knows

What it is

All that is done

For power

And money.

Crawling on its belly

And chewing through the heart

Compromised, infiltrated,

Eaten and dead.

Under the fence

And inside the wire

The enemy within

Far worse than soldiers.

We wept for the dead

But the killer was their friend

All bought and paid for

Tragic, dumb and sad.

It is never enough

Because they want more

The same now as then

And rotten to the core.

The window is closing

But the door is still ajar

Now more than ever

The same usurpers

Curse at the stars. 

Over Sword

Over Sword        10/9/2016

All against one

And one against the world

Stacked, and slanted

By liars and thieves. 

Two voices

Pierce the darkness

Witnesses to all  

Who have ears

To listen and know.

Buried by lies  

The secrets are spilled

But only if you search  

And only if you care. 

No man is perfect

But some have sold their souls

Anything to win

And anything to steal. 

Propped up, and artificial

Babylon rides upon the beast

Drunk with the blood of many

Murdered along the way. 

Powerful is the truth

And much of it, is known

But the silence can tell you everything

About who is protected

And who is excused.

One day

Two days

But no more than three

Shall evil laugh

And gloat upon the dead. 

Let the good, ask God

To speak through their mouth

In the hour of need

For defense and truth. 

Yes, the good ask God

And yes, the good will rise

More powerful than ever

Unshaken, undefeated

And miraculously approved. 

God is greater

And God is stronger

Patiently waiting

To rise up is own. 

Evil hides

And evil lies

The same now as then

A murderer and thief. 

One way or another

The greatest victory awaits

The truth outright

And shining like the sun. 

Let them run

And let them hide

Gnashing their teeth

Corrupt, empty

Forgotten and dead. 

Triumph

Triumph             9/29/2016

Clouds gather

And a heaviness fills the air

Weighing us down

With intensifying fear. 

The moon hides

In our shadow

As we spin around the sun

In an ancient arc

Of rhythmic tides.

We have lived

And we have loved

But bigger things

Happen outside. 

Secrets are hidden

But we still get a glimpse

Waking up

Or sliding down.   

Inertia is gravity

Pulling me downward

Into a hole

Pulling me into a vacuum

Of lethargy and loathing. 

An internal fog

From which

There is little escape

A cold, gray drizzle

In the middle of my mind. 

In silence we live

And foolishness we die

Without ever questioning

How or why.  

Slaves to impulse

And instinctive emotions

Traceable to our common tragedies

One after another. 

Questions surface

But then we push them down

Imagining everything

But doing nothing. 

If we stay the same

We are already buried

Bombed into hades

Burning in our fat.

Evil reigns

And that explains it all

An unbearable existence

Devolving into violence

And senseless terror.

Evil never rests

And now it paces

At the door

Unleashed

And unfettered

It rages out of control.

Remember the poets

When the world goes dark

Searching for familiar words

In the blank screen of death.

Find it in the streets

And find it in the dark

The rebel press

Indomitable

And unstoppable. 

Even in the darkness

We have lit the fire

The kind that burns

Brighter by the hour. 

They have lost

So now see the desperation mount

Spent completely in a spasm

To destroy all they can. 

Trust in the light

And lean upon God

That all of us are protected

Joyful at his return. 

Sliding Window

Sliding Window               9/28/2016

Quiet as a mouse

In the dead of night

The subversion of truth

And speech.    

We who peered

Behind the curtain

Saw more than they wanted

Shrugging off the sleep

Of numberless years.

Rubbing our eyes in disbelief

That so many were used

All of us duped

And all of us fooled. 

Right under our nose

And barely mentioned at all

The passage of truth

From searchable

To forbidden.

All of it for power

And all of it for control

The masses used

And guided

Just because

They can. 

The change has come

And many have awakened

Too many to jail

Or murder. 

So now the window closes

Unnoticed in the night

Slipping by

And slipping through

Unreported and unopposed. 

Win or lose

They cashed their checks

Each one privileged

And feeding at the trough. 

We believed

And we tried

Doing our best

Day in

And day out. 

But all of it was rigged

And all of it

Was squandered

Wasted away

On nothing at all. 

Pray lest the spark go out

Leaving us all

Fumbling in the darkness

Led by lies

To our own slaughter. 

Let the light expose all

And always find a way

To share the truth

Even when shunned

And even when punished. 

That they day will yet come

That all is known and understood

Shinning like the sun

Forever.