A Black Cloud Meets a Silver Lining

waving candor
grieving fully-
postulating gestures
impressions etched
into glass
cold and frozen
destined to break
destined to break

smiling lasciviously
cultured-refined
predatory masks
are invisible, until
the moment strikes
shark-tiger-crocodile skin
leopard-piranha-lion's roar

and when it does, victims fall
defenses drop, ease is made
trust is gain, safety is but a word
tomorrows a casket that
bears someones name
names are but recreations of characters
names carry history but only if memories suffice

You never know who your villain shall be, perhaps it's a devil,
perhaps it's an alternate you, perhaps it's a friend or a lover, a doubter or an acquaintance you just made

don't take liberties on today
for you don't know
what date there'll be
on the page of your
obituary

Oh, how depressing

what words are spewed with shades of coal

how can one live in such a fashion

betting on an inevitability solely not to be wrong

what kind of lyrics?

what kind of song?

Breathe deep

mouth to diaphragm

Breathe deep

hold for ten seconds

and spew your negativity away

dream

dream

dream

then wake up and dream some more

and find that happy door, that leads you to a place of glad

You're too oblivious to see the serious nature
that bows before us now
have you not been paying attention
the world is falling apart
The planet is dying
the wells are drying up
the flu is everywhere, infecting
perpetuating a sickness that is but the beginning
to an end that will be before us before you think
natural disasters are cropping up so quick
the supply is in demand
but machines supply the labor
unemployment rates skyrocket
arguments are all that is salable
to a mindless generation of
hands-out sheep, willing to beg
for whatever pile they spew upon your
dirty plate

But what is gained from speaking so

find a joy in life, any joy and 

if that evil does come true

then, well, then you will have loved

something, and that something

will carry you on through

and if finality is the dish

served warm

then hold on tight

to all the positive memories you 

have worn while letting

those destructive songs cease to play

for once we're gone, so are they

just believe and pray and pray

it'll be all right 

no matter what end comes our way

hopeless optimist

I pity your shock

when the bricks crumble

and you fall down and down

as I doubt the life you've lived

will take you anywhere 

and then you'll frown and remember

the warnings you were given yet

chose not to heed…pathetic, that's what

I see

And here we have it

those who cannot negate the

optimistic cry, eventually

turn to slander and negative barbs

I'm so sorry you live the way you do

but chastise you I will not

for you make your choices and 

I'll make mine, I pray

for you the best and hopefully

you'll find something to live for,

something to deeply love while you can.

Shared with D'Verse for Open Link Night.

For this week I had the idea of a poetic dialogue between an eternal pessimist and an eternal optimist.  Not sure how I feel about what I wound up with, but in any case, satisfied that idea to some degree.

Tangent Away

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Brisk flashes, suddenly appear

from the vale, they shutter

they jab, they prod, they spear,

Distorting hues collect their mirage

from distant skylines, here

we dodge, in a myriad of triumphant shades

Corruption has a face, one

we’ve all worn, that can still, even to this day,

be seen, if you only stop and stare into memories well

Fate is like a twisting, gnarled root,

always seeking and searching, for the

nourishment found in an ever expanding route

Whenever the weight pushes down—in

ways that you can never properly explain—where pressure mounts

heavy, leaving breaths aghast, just remember….

just remember, that, in all your many unsettling gasps, with every frightening tremor felt deep inside, when overpowering swirls of distress alter your sense of self, bringing nothing but damaging pictorials of imagination…just remember….

Just remember...

you’re only ever a tangent away

from a more compatible shade of day

Look on the Bright Side

Woes be gone

Ills forgotten

Accept love

Invite elation

When all days travel

A repeating trail

Welcome disruption

Through familiar doors

Break loose from your shackling

Hammer chains that concrete limbs

Unhinge inhibition’s latches free

Opening the lines of possibility

Vanquish the screams of constraint

With a touch of silence awakened

Then in-waves flow most fluidly

Voices of hope intrinsically

Relinquish sorrow

And do the same for scars

If not this eve, then the ‘morrow

Implode sadness into shards

Ovate the tidings that are good

As bless lucks those who would

Inaugurate bliss-filled brightness

Putting demon’s shadows down to rest

Unholy occupation of life’s lease

Take your leave now; Abandon me

As I invoke the spirit’s light

To carry me through darkened nights

Alive, we must tread each day

Lest fear shall possess our frame