Wanderlust

 I'm in love with traveling. I want to see and experience as much as I can, rack up as many airline miles as possible, talk to even more people, and explore the cities until the soles of my shoes wear out.

My inspiration to keep going? Not who you think...it's not a world leader or historical icon, it was a stranger that I ended up talking to while traveling, with no schedule to be back to work the next week. He was looking at a tourist book browsing which restaurant to go to for dinner that night and deciding whether to book his hotel room a few more nights or see where the road would lead him to tomorrow. The career, house, corporate ladder and all.... that can wait, because if he doesn't let it wait he will only dream about the reality he is living now.

Chance

I don't want to leave yet

I'm sure there is still some good that I could do

Every minute seems like a second when it's your last

Breath

Pause

Breath

I will never sin again said the sinner

If you could just give me this last chance

You will see

I could be the one

I would be the one...

Unexpected

My mind is on auto pilot and there is a short in the system

Prepare the runway for my crash landing

I'm coming in fast and my outcome doesn't look well at all

I just drift with the air current

The days pass

Waiting for me to burn in the yesterdays that are below me.

Your eyes

I see a galaxy in your eyes

sparkling through

But then there's that black hole in your soul

Sucking the life out of anything near

I tend to my wounds

How do you mend something that isn't physical there?

I will just let my heart gape open

Leaking a trail of blood as I walk around the world in a zombie like state.

People stare

But that's beyond what I care about these days

Maybe you can be in the realms of the little I do still care about

I imagine myself diving into a lake

Hidden deep in the forest

Sink down to the bottom

Come up to the surface refreshed

Renewed.

Put a Chain around my neck because that's the only way you will hold me down.

I'm at high risk of disappearing

As quickly as I came

I'm gone

Never to be seen again

Sure, you might think of me time to time

Pass somewhere that holds meaning.

But the memories will fade out with the lost connection

I'll just keeping doing what I do

To live will be my only goal.

I was born not to worry

So I will continue on with this vagabond life

All the people I connect with along the way

I will absorb anything I can learn from you

Teach me

Roses

A rain drop forms at the tip of the branch

Bubbling up until it gets ready to burst and fall to the ground

Time steals away your loved ones when you turn around

All you have left is a empty shell of what used to be

Empty rooms

Empty beds

A closet full of clothing that no longer has a owner

A fate of becoming ashes in a box is unavoidable

Run run run

Time chases you down with greedy eyes

It only hurts if you let it

Curl up in the fetal position

Embrace the sharp stabbing sensation

This is how I live

Bones, how I love them

I have fallen into a dream again

Can you please throw me a rope to escape?

Remember that white picket fence that surrounded our yard?

It is now rotted and crumbling

Just like our love

The roses have passed their season.

We both must split ways now

Find a new garden

Fly with me?

We could take off and never look back

My name is irrelevant

Velvet Hillsides

My thoughts were murdered, now I struggle to find replacements

Sitting there listen to lies formulated by your lips

I'm tired, your tired

I cringe and my eyes become dull

The land seemed to be covered in green velvet.

I hiked several hours that early morning.

The sun challenged me to a race to the top of the hill.

I won

Now I sit and wait for the light to meet up with me again

My bare skin is tickled as I lay back on to the grass

Outstretched

Laying here stuck in the limbo of awake and sleep

the battle begins

That is where I create and my words link together to mean something, anything

This is where I find peace

sleep or wide awake, who's going to win

sleep tugs at my mind, close your eyes and come with me

Forget about the living world , you don't need them

Sleep is always lonely

sleep kidnaps me at night until I escape it's dreams and nightmares coming into the morning

Wake up

another day is here

the days start blurring together and the rain keeps pouring

everyone stays inside, but I go out

Embrace the wet cold

let it soak my hair and pour down my face and body

my tears blend in when it's like this

Wild Soul

The grey clouds snarl and spit rain at me

Keep me grounded, I'm a kite whipping around in the ocean winds

Tug on my line as I try to escape.

I need my thoughts to be strong right now

But I need my words to be even stronger

You let the river dry up a long time ago and all that's left is a rock bed and now you have to sleep in it