Poem: Esperanza

To scar your heart and teach you how to dream again –

To plant unto your soul this how, this where and when,

We'll spread untiring wings and dive into the blue,

The heavens to discern, its judgement to subdue.

My sweet! Think you that 'tis a storm of no import –

We've given up our blood and dreams for paltry worth?

 Sometimes the gods destroy with merciful intent;

 Mayhap those tears are for my loving kisses meant.

The leaves upon the trees, they fall all red and gold,

Their perch abandoned at the whisper of the cold.

But when the warmth of spring defeats the cruel frost,

We'll stand, forgetting how it was to pay the cost.

This meeting born of pain shall never be effaced

And ever shall I crave this wounded love's embrace.

For after tasting of the plight of hell and death –

The more we'll learn to love the gift of ev'ry breath.

Unfettered Verses II - Dusk and dawn

Dusk

Beneath the hazy light 

Of dusk, I sit 

Alone, as lonely

As the coming night -- too sad

To journey home.

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Dawn

Soon the night of pensive dreaming

Into passive morn shall break,

And jaded heart, though barely beating,

Fate shall find for healing’s sake.

I have walked so long in shadows,

Lived a life that e’er repeats,

But time has come to conquer hist’ry,

Cyclic chaos to defeat.

I shall flee this starless prison –

Darkness brings no sweet relief.

Its answers all shall stay encrypted:

Past perception, past belief.

This is a poem I made for a story collaboration with a friend. Read full version here or here. 

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Do light the fire, dear poet -- rise

And in our journey, become wise.

Come lilt your gentle, soulful tunes

By which with God shall we commune.