Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Friday, August 20, 2010

The Apocalypse Sky

Desperate Times Poetry [Continuing] Poetry Series:

The sky looks forbidding tonight
Looking at it’s beauty, I am restricted to my body – no longer can my mind break free of the corporeal nonsense on the ground and soar
I’m stuck in the crimson hue of late summer sky and it reminds me of death.
It reminds me that wistfulness isn’t going to save me from the sickle that lives by my throat.
The sky is red and blue and it’s hard to see fly-balls.
If the apocalypse came tonight, the sky would look appropriate.

8.19.10

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Desperate Times

Desperate Times Hobo Prose

DESPERATE TIMES
Everything he says, he lies, things he says he lies, He says them just to lie

Won’t let me look him in the eye, look him in the eye, try, he closes off his eyes

His friends are all around, friends they do surround, His friends they all came down

To comfort, say goodbye, a comforting goodbye, never know when he will try again

Cause now they don’t know when, we’ll see you again, won’t see you again

Then his girl comes in, fingers to his chin, then he starts to grin

He needs comfort he needs love, not people up above, not those people up above

But Every word he speaks his false, words he speaks as false, words he speaks are false

He stopped telling time cuase he couldn’t lie, cause he used to lie about telling time

He stopped telling lies, couldn’t find the time, time to tell the tangible lies

Now he’s in desperate times, he’s in desperate times, he’s in desperate times –

Now he's Gotta find a lie, tangible little lie so he can get by -----

He’s been killed off by his peers, with scissorhanded shears, causes him no tears.

He’s shed so many tears, enough to last for years, what else to you really need to know.

Don’t believe he’s fine, Don’t believe his lies, when he says he fine.

He’ll cut you in your sleep, rest of us will weep and we’ll all be here much longer than we’d planned.

If he could have it his way – guess she woulda stayed, guess she would stayed, guess she woulda stayed

But He misses her today, yeah misses her today – days the day she left without saying goodbye