Enduring Psychic Wounds

To amble through a desolate city
Of dilapidated houses and dispirited streets
In search of jubilant flowers
And the song of gurgling fountains!

My heart is stung
By the absurdity of the odds
Of ever finding any positive resolution
To insistent desires
As I attempt to recall
An exultant dream.

For too long
I’ve had a melancholy face
Too distressing for strangers
To gaze upon,
Too sad for a room with mirrors.

I’ve been haunted in vain
By ghosts of previous lives

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Possibly a Cad

This life is filled with a myriad of difficulties
And so much sadness.
Even petty sadness,
Meaning, not getting a job promotion,
Not dating the high school cheer leader, and the like,
Seems immense at the time;
I guess, to prepare us, somewhat, for actual troubles.

If we're lucky, in-between the loneliness
And the sense of hurt,
We find a dignified beauty in words or a human smile,
And it gives us a reprieve, however briefly.

At times in life, I've been kind and considerate;
At times, insensitive to a fault, possibly a cad.

I can only hope, God sees the small attempts we make
To attain the real beauty of a genuine soul
And to be better humans and that this will be our redemption.

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I’ve Been Ensnared by Love for You

I’ve been ensnared by love for you,
Your sleeplessness, your moodiness,
Your poetry of a hundred broken hearts,
Your youthfulness worshipping music
And tipping your glass of merriment
To imaginary gods of spontaneity
As you step with friends from a bar into the moonlight.

Love arises gradually
Like the smoke of the sweet incense
That your younger sister bought for you
At the astral store of mystical charms
Until it entirely infiltrates the heart
Like incense eventually perfumes
Every room of the house.

Age and distance create obstacles
To romantic embraces;
But what obstacles could be more severe
Than the lingering loneliness

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If You Ever Turn Your Eyes My Way Again

I was fortunate enough
To have made your acquaintance
When you had your father's name
But I wasn't fortunate enough to be the man
For whom it would later change.

You may have heard I was disoriented
And I was holding flowers in the rain
When I learned you were married.

I tried to talk to you
Before you fell in love with him
But I met with such heavy resistance
From every corner of my existence:

There was sickness and death,
Family obligations of the heart,
I was living in a place
Where I thought my soul
Would be torn apart.

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Fragile Light

If your old and weary car breaks down
And can no longer faithfully carry you like a parent
On a dark night on a rain-spattered street;
If your nearest friend has turned ghost-like
And vanished with your cash;
If your loving mother isn’t home
Or has lost her phone,
I want to be someone
Who would drag himself out of bed
In the middle of the heart-tattered night
To search some godless street
Until you were found and safe.

I’ve given up on love a long time ago;
I’ve given up on finding meaning to my existence;
I’ve given up from time to time
In any belief in a compassionate God,
But I won’t give up anytime soon
My desire to do you some good
And protect the fragile light of your eyes.

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Everything I Love

Dip your dreams in the slain blood society has poured
In the vampire streets of dying innocence,
Where hoodlums and whores practice gratuitous violence in the soulless city,
Where angels never existed and fallen roses from a lover’s bouquet
Have thorns sharper than razor blades
And mercilessly pierce
Everyone naively moving
To a destiny of eventual extinction;
Families perish beside Christmas trees
In perpetual fragility.
On the eve of disintegration,
Shattered ornaments
Rip into the flesh of unloved children
And empty stockings turn into a hangman’s noose,
Nightmares explode into hopeless minds
With blinding visions of fear,
Everything I hate is real,
And everything I love has disappeared.

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Illusion And Trance

We snake our way
Through the city side streets
Like adorable criminals;
We prowl as sleek as cats
To the dark bars
And dig underground jazz;
Our memories guide us
Like well-marked maps
To hidden basement retreats
Where everyone drifts
Into another existence,
Charting their souls’ evolution
To this moment of lurid experimentation.

Don’t breathe too long
The fetid air of normalcy,
Too many walk like living corpses
In this conformist society,
Everyday making down payments
On their burial plots,

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Autumn Leaf

Listening to daybreak birds
Singing sweetly after a summer rain,
I feel hopeful like I can create my existence
As meaningful as a poem or a religious saint;
I want to be someone who embraces life
And makes it somewhat better
Than the way I found it,
Someone who cares in the face of suffering
And who doesn't become shallow if blessed with gain.

I don't want to be a man of double thoughts
And unreliable to friends,
I don't want to alter my purpose
As easily as the direction of the breeze;
Some people with the slightest change of circumstances
Become different men and are never seen again,
There is nothing left of their beauty of virtue,
It is as if their kindness became an autumn leaf
And blew away.

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Kicked In The Teeth

I live in pallid lifelessness among shadows,
I seek privacy and fear cut-throats,
I try to protect child-like hearts
From disappearing into paranoia-driven
Self-destructive confusion,
I steer clear of happy faces
That smile while plotting
Spiritual identity theft
And dissolution.

I don’t complain about life,
I appreciate the frail radiance
Of the human desire to taste
A lasting love.

And one day my dreams will be indomitable;
I’ll drive on midnight boulevards
Beneath the soft caress of streetlights
With the stereo playing loudly,
And I’ll reach for a woman’s knee

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Inexplicable Kiss

Will she cry with me
Thinking of childhood dances
And innumerable lovely memories?

Ghost stories at campfire parks,
Chivalry at water fountains and merry-go-rounds,
She held my arm at the amusement park,
I thought my heart would stop on the rollercoaster
Feeling her breath like an inexplicable kiss.

I want to live my life for ecstatic highs
And to hear her voice at candlelight dusk;
To move around through a city
As romantic streetlights cast loving glances
Into the sweet and drunken night.

I happen to be a lonely poet
Writing immortal poetry
Near the place of our rendezvous tree;
It doesn’t matter where this lullaby ends

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