Eternal Quest

Our first chance encounter
a sultry night of warm embrace
Entering my life, in that langourous manner
shining bright for all to see
then hidden away like a guilty child
Skulking in the dark

Years spent in the shadow of loneliness
nothing without you!
Will I spend the aeons as half a soul?
Pondering fates churlish whim

Darkness gives way to dawns smile
I see your hesitant return
stained by wordly sorrows
Shock forces the succinct gasp!
as you embrace my soul once more
seeking out the shadow self
guiding it towards your incandescent self

Forever seeking that unique creation
souls conjoined
within the sphere of understanding
Do we ever glimpse it when its there?

Ashes

Who would know
the earth shattered home.
Weeping Gaia's tears!

Instantaneous rapture
phantasm of gossamer light.
Surging within nights scented world.

Long, so long ago
loneliness wanders
unfettered by social prattle.
Stifling.
Weeping Gaia's tears!

The black shod crow observes
relishing desolation's
glistening tears
moisten crowded ashes.

Who?

It exists within my soul
this tender void.
Bittersweet and charmless
a mindless
tumultuous
churning!

Betraying the paralysis of dogma
My grimace shining within
the paralysis of dogma.
The illiterate
straitjacket of rapture.

Who do I think I am?

Cleansing darkness
as complete as the dawn
filling my senses with
a shuddering stillness.

The faint voice of wan decay
whispers in its shroud.

You will never know!

Awaken

The remnants of subtle hue
clothing that intimate ego
wishing for dawns sword
scythe my terrors away!

I yearn.

Gazing within
the yawning chasm of loneliness
retreating before
days returning joy.

I don the shield
fey touch comforting
slight hesitance
shivering along my arid lips

Day is here
light floods through
an azure vista
soaring without.

Ballast

I'm a passenger
stranded within this vehicle!
The world at the wheel
empty hollow sockets
guiding indistinct quests.

I'm a passenger
the road bends ahead,
faster
yet faster!
Blind ambition
faster
even faster!

Smashing through barriers
brakes forlornly shriek
people wantonly scream.

I'm a passenger
the corners retinue
awaits our fiery adieu
bending ever tighter
oblivion's smile beckons alluringly
faster
still faster!

Summers breath

Summers breath
caresses my heart, enveloping swollen thoughts
emotional platitudes
receptivity denied.

Enter my sweet
succumb to folded veils
shielding sacred sounds
secreted from profane eyes.

Perfumed splendour
arise
within
arise!

Take heart
life becomes one
finding
liberal scent of morning hue
sheltering within
stunted primal shriek

Needs must!

Desire sparks, boiling and churning
sensuous thoughts follow
scurrying, scampering within.
Tempestuous impulse
searching for the crescendo
strive towards the arousing
fleeting touch of the divine!

Waking the flame, held gently!

Fear not the crashing thunder
perpetual momentum builds
nadir to zenith, within a flash.
Tipping point, zero point
unspoken heartfelt breath.
Do you accept that
rapturous humble need?