Another day's end

Another day draws to an end
Journey's done, I shed my load
The sun retreats around the bend
The moon reclaims the silver road

Campfires shine between the leaves
reflecting in the midnight sky
substance from the shadow weaves
a dancing tale to please the eye

Longingly I seek to see
what lingers there, upon the brink,
and holds my focus lovingly
preventing me, e'en now, to think

Do tears live there, within those dreams
or saddened smiles of days gone by?
"Do not try" is said, it seems
"to bring me back." No more to fly

2011/05/18
image courtesy of BinaryRhyme with permission

Leaving the Ice Queen

For far too long mine eyes were cloaked
by imagery her lies provoked
along with passion's fires, well stoked
kept me blind, contented

But eyes so cloaked in love's own magic
can fall to searing pain, so tragic
Close the heart's door, chain and latch it
further rending thus prevented

Living so is full of sorrow
ever hiding from tomorrow
memories are sought to borrow
ever searching for a light

This Queen of ice with frozen heart
(leaving victims torn apart)
felt no compassion from the start
and knows not wrong from right

Only when her true love flees,
I crawl away on bloodied knees
consume'd by this foul disease,
escaping from her spell

Bursting, weak, into the day
casting mental chains away
(wrought by her emotions play)
my refuge from that hell

Now I stand, my own two feet
and each new day, I smile and greet
and try to purge the long deceit
that held me for so long

And she now tells me I'm her love
a gift from heaven up above
Belong together, hand and glove
I think she may be wrong.

2011/05/11
image courtesy of BinaryRhyme with permission

Foolish Wishes (a touch of irony?)

To wish, in a sense, is a frivolous thing
Mere words in the wind without weight, shape or form?
What good can a wish to a living time bring
Can it end boring habits from everyday norm?

How can Wishes and Dreams ever make someone happy?
Can you send them to anyplace useful or great?
Spending money on wishes seems awfully sappy
Can it ever put food on a hungry child's plate?

I have thought some on wishes with decision still pending
I am not very certain how widely they reach
This missive on wishes will soon reach its ending
I am not very certain what it is that they teach


2011/05/02
Please take a moment to click on the links in the 2nd and 3rd stanzas and read about some wishes that have made wonderful impacts