Wake up to the darkness

Have you felt the embrace of darkness?
When you stayed up through the random night
Standing alone in the window after midnight, sharing time with only the moonlight
Staring away into the depths of the night

Have you sensed a nothingness in the late hour
In the dark recesses of your mind
As light fades away around you
Has it left you wondering what’s out there?
Just beyond the blurring edges of ambient light?

As you stand in the window
With a whimsical ray of moonlight falling on your face
Creating a smoky reflection in your window-pane
That’s your blurry reality staring you in the face

Have you not sensed the line
Between fiction and fact, fantasy and reality
And the stuff that dreams are made of
As the edges of reality beckon you
As reality becomes nothingness, the nothingness of the night

As you ghostly face stares back at you from the window
In the eddies of reflected moonlight
Moving in and out of the darkness
While you feel the goosebumps on the back of your neck?

Are these really the fringes of darkness
And the end of reality
Or are these the fringes of insanity
Deliciously beckoning you out into the night

Your pale face in the shadows
And darkness where your eyes would be
A nigh wicked smile on the ghostly lips
Daring you to walk with me

For I am the prince of darkness
And the transition is now complete
The moonlight is insanity
And refreshing lack of mediocrity
A fulfillment beyond the real world
The real that you call fantasy
A fantasy that will set you free, to be more than you can in the normalcy of mediocrity………………

Infinity after midnight

Aut vincere aut mori

There is no another reason
Is there another way
Do we finally have a calamity
One to make me stay

Was there a world to conquer?
Or a lingering thought there might?
Aut vincere aur mori
Is the order of the night

The last 30 were squandered
In gentlemanly worldly pursuits
A misogynistic tendency
A lifestyle less hirsute

The new years heralds a new order
The meek will not inherit the earth
For the rightful owner cometh
The king that was born

And they will stand in awe
And Atlas will stand erect
For the coming of the king
Heralds the coming of the light

A system far less obtuse
And men will not live like mice
And chaos will not be the order of the day
And Mandelbrot will theorise again

For fractals will be only for physics
And the models will only be human
For the war of the worlds is over
Its now time for the light

The light that has been waited on
For the warrior cometh, hear all ye
Aut vincere aut mori
Is the order of the day!

A Prisoner of the skies

And the rushes are gone
and the spotlight's getting dim
The music has stopped now
and its time to move on again

A step closer on the route laid out by destiny
A destiny that never panned out as planned
He has been a nomad though
Always a prisoner of the skies

So now that the sands have been sifted
And what was to be taken has been so
He is that much wiser now
And its time to move on to.......

To the next verse of the ballad
that is his life
Lyrics of valor and greatness and times to bide
and the lilt of a reckless tune
And a winsome smile thrown to the Gods

to hope and all things such!

Hope is a dirty word he thinks, he has always felt that way...........it reeks of one's inability to control his destiny, of his inability to say surely that yes, that will be the way of things.........

But here's one to hope and all things such
Of new years' and all that mush
And water lilies hanging in nothingness as the pyrotechnics flare up the sky
Of Van Gogh's power strokes on the canvas that is life

And yes there is hope
A recognition of powers beyond the self
Of a humble respect for the unknown, not necessarily the uncontrollable
Of a soliloquy of a warrior
And many more that have been

And here's one to the year that will be
Of destinies that will be re written
And as the greatest warrior poet once said
One can only do what he must
Until his destiny reveals itself to him!

So here's one to the unknown
And another to the warrior's many soliloquies that will be
And the wait that will be for his destiny to find him.............

Of tears unshed.........

Of promises broken
And hearts burnt to a crisp
"Ashes to ashes" they said
"And dust to dust!"

A warrior falls within
Forgotten sensitivities
Are reborn……again
And tears unshed
Drown out the senses

The fear is gone
And hope is a bad dream
Of ringing doorbells
And unbidden phone calls
And tears unshed
Drown out them all

A warrior is breaking down
All over again
For the cause that was once lost
Is shown to him again
A war within
A cry of the soul
There is angst and there are tears
The unshed drown it all

Of promises never meant to be kept
And hope meant to be burnt
"Why?" cries the warrior
Does love always take this toll
As tears unshed
Seep through the hole

A melancholy darkness
A reticent sadness
The code of war is broken
And love kills them all
Of tears unshed
Drowning out it all……………

In search of everlasting peace!!

Nothing left to fight for
Nothing left to try
Whatever the world throws at me
My being becomes a sigh

The warrior in me is dying
A purpose not yet found
The reason he was born
Undiscovered, unfound, unforgiving

A love unloved
Desires lost
In the mediocrity of averages
There is solitude

The warrior in me is dying
As life takes on a new life
And goes down someone else's destiny
My being becomes a sigh

The deeper me is dying
The thinker, the brooder, the intense shitsster
I don’t want him in me anymore
I want to be high or low
Wherever it is that lies peace
My being becomes a sigh

Of puerile nothingness
And the sewer regurgitating up my throat
Of a damp chill
That now wets my throat

The blotted out sun
And dismantled starscape
And a whining moon
In a howling night
I seek peace, a warrior's moan
My being becomes a sigh

I seek a lasting peace
From the variables of my life
A life that’s gone its one way
And taken on someone else's destiny

A penetrating cry in the howling night
An enveloping fury
Triggered by emptiness
A sigh stems from my throat
My being becomes a sigh

Jaded by Surfeit

Jaded by surfeit
Seeking a lost cause
A smile in the darkness
To put a glow in my heart
A feel in my soul
And a song to my lips

Am jaded by surfeit
But not quite yet
For there is still an incomplete poetry
And words unspoken
But am seeking a lost cause
To bring a song to my lips

Am now one of the fabled Ronin
A warrior with no cause
A lover without a love
A singer without a ballad
But am seeking a lost cause
To bring a song to my lips

She walks away with the light
The light from my heart
And as I hear her humming now
It brings a smile to my eye
Which crowds up the tear
As I seek a lost cause
To put a glow in my heart
And bring a song to my lips

Walk away my sweet
May the best go with you
You have taken the best of me
So come get the rest of me
But in the back of my head I know…..

Am jaded by surfeit
Seeking a lost cause
A smile in the darkness
To put a glow in my heart
A feel in my soul
And a song to my lips

Youre walking away with a smile on your lips
And a song in your heart
Wish you will stay this way forever
For there is a love out there for you
Which will always be there babo
For I am what I am
But you walk away
You walk away……………