Before Darkness Not wanting to stab anyone in the neck, I dropped the knife.   You plotted You schemed You laughed thinking of me How I’d be all alone Later that night How you would Knock and bang And give me a Fright.   What…

some people smoke it exclaim upon it: “this is some GOOD SHIT!” but i tell you  true, my darlings, as the years advance your priorities shift and nothing gives more pleasure in the morning than the natural rhythms of life asserting themselves and no red…

What was the story before Roots… (Tell your Story)

Sometimes I sleep in Silence the alarm Shut out the endless droning nothing news Burrow deep in the sheets Beneath the blanket Beneath the quilt There I breathe The scent of your skin Deep slow breaths Matching mine to yours The world outside disappears Sounds…

If Aliens Come and discover human beings will they think we are so hard to see, so full of water that our edges move? Will they watch the tides in us as we watch the ocean? Perhaps we can frighten them with our leaking, there…

Before Darkness overtakes us we must walk toward the LIGHT The challenge is to know the TRUTH and seek to do what’s right The world is in a struggle and humankind needs hope Before Darkness does destroy us we must hold on to the “Rope”……

before darkness before darkness : the rush & bustle : the sirens : the tunnel vision : the tap tap tap of 10 million keyboards : the conferring media : spin cycles : PR exercises : racing rodents : the tabloid’s blood : the dog…

We fly about on fragile wings that frantically beat, desperate in our need to gain formation, to gather together those of likeness and temperament, never quite understanding there is no direction home, yet, once begun, we are relentless in our pursuit. Warriors fighting against shadows…

Before darkness there was only Word Or waters of a sea; Perhaps back then there only was What would be you and me. For word and water, wind and waking Requires, not to see, But only will and wishing hard Till darkness came to be.  

It was simpler before it came Before the shriek of metal, The roar of engines, tanks and helicopters The deafening explosions of bombs, The throbbing biomechanical gristle of civilization   Before, the cycle was uninterruptible Life consumed to nurture new life Sacrifice necessary and understood…