Verse
Warewolf
Moons rise. Vertigo cries. Sun squeezed. Hearts bleeds.
Summer mocks. Habits squack. Anger pours. Despiration slurs.
Patience invoked. Frustration clocked. Time turns. Souls yearn.
Going To Charan
Charan's responsibility. Spaces of possibility. Legend beckons me. Seeing shall eventually see.
Ready To Die
My names death.
I choose your final breath.
Whether you laugh or cry.
I choose when you die.
I screen a movie of your life.
The ups and downs, delight and strife.
When you meet me, please be ready.
It makes it better when people are steady.
The light dims.
The sun slims.
Air grows still.
Birds trill.
The fire covered.
The heat smothered.
Once in a lifetime.
Life now bent in chime.
Hammock Hang
Lost in your heat.
Close yet far away our hearts beat.
Your vulnerability - couragoues and beautiful and scary.
Your soul - lightness and vision does carry.
To know deely beyond flesh.
Sometimes the beast makes us feel less.
Wanting all goodness for you my friend.
Not in your arms playing pretend.
Trauma Bonding
Hard to connect without drama.
Difficult to trust without shared trauma.
Seeking the profound.
To see somewhere where are found.
Camp Fire
Look up at night and find awe.
To be so insignificant and small.
Stars remind me that nothing mattters.
Just a set of arms and legs - climbing in an infinite wall of ladders.
Cosmic Joke
Meaning of life - a punch line.
Ancient laughter - echos of cosmic mimes.
We worry what will and resist what is.
Our lives - comedy dramas of show biz.
Deathbed Tremors
I can see it - suddenly old and frail.
Can feel it - weak grip, a red face now pale.
End now near - possessed with fear.
Considered this moment before - but never in such vivid gore.
Wasted so much time pretending.
Worried so much ego defending.
Now know death is real.
My last thought - how will this feel?
Balance
Space between satisfaction and dreams.
More blurry than it seems.
Presense and adventure - halves of a whole.
Careful calibrations of the soul.
Swimming in seas of gray.
Black n white refusing to play.
Master of all four elements.
Bringing balance to the filaments.
Each cornerstone a work of plastifcity.
Movements synergizing syncronistically.
Lost and found.
Tossed and sound.
Same storms - different words.
Strength and belief - sacred swords.
Daydreams And Rainbows
Sometimes I live in fantasy
Inhabiting a world that cannot simply be.
Prefering delucions to fact.
Pretending there’s an answer to lack in the final act.
Spring Time
Seeds planted - thought dead.
Now poke forth their head.
Battered and bruised and shaken.
But not altogether forsaken.
Spring Cleaning
Cleaning - too much stuff weighs us down.
In clutter - nothing worthy can be found.
Distraction.
Subconscious detraction.
Your scent lifts winter once more.
The sun now shines in all its glore.
Running In Place
Odd to work - but not create.
Empty before and after the race
To toil but not store.
To lift but not lift more.
Needle stuck - output paralyzed.
Nothing happened - zero quantified.
Fears that whats dear.
Isn’t so near.
A Wondering Jew
Numb to it.
Perpetually a misfit.
Lost my way.
Wondering in this desert of decay.
The sun shines - my soul withers.
The birds sing - my heart dithers.
The bright sun and chirping birds.
A gloomy mind and a soul of turds.
Fakermaan
People who fake.
Borrowing shells of cool to imitate.
Performances misleading and lame.
This ain’t authentic - what a shame.
I ask.
Who are you really behind that mask.
I know all these people but they don’t feel like friends.
Instead we’re performers playing pretend.
All these people not really in my life.
Not really holding space for my strife.
All About The People
We just need friends.
In the end.
Living life alone - a bloody crime.
Just some nice people to pass the time.
Fake structures whisper community.
Artificiality beckons pretend unity.
Realkiet sorely empty.
Authenticity paradoys pity.
A tribe.
A communal vibe.
Together against entropy and decay.
United - it’s all going to be OK.
Every day - a lottery.
Only God know what will be.
Life and death battle for air.
The presense of another prevents collapse and despair.
Playing With Kids
There is nothing more spiritual more beautiful than a child’s laughter.
Nothing more meaningful more real than their smile after.
Their presence demands responsibility and play.
Hope I’m worthy of it all some not so distant day.
Carpe Diem
Blessed enough to laugh and dance.
This life - a wonderful romance.
In love with light and sound and touch and taste.
To not enjoy this simulation - a colossal waste.
Night Out
This night bustles.
Beautiful women hustle.
Parties stretch late.
This ain’t my gait.
Flow State
110 bpm.
Shredding psm.
Weaving each note.
Each degree floats.
Worlds beneath the surface.
Waves of undeniable purpose.
The Present
Ego disappears.
Judgements no longer sneer.
Surrender to the flow.
Just release and let go.
Listen to the sound.
Relapse into the profound.
Zen - marriage of breath and pace.
Slower motion - revealing space.
Frames - reflection in a calm pound.
Flows now move beyond.
Without waste - space - no haste.
Slowing down - so not to drown.
My mission - this life.
More love - less strife.
Yichus
I am my father’s son - no doubt.
An extension of what he is about.
Hear it in the way I sound.
Sense it in where i’m found.
Mesorah in my blood.
Rejuvenation in the mud.
Perspective
Zoom in zoom out - all relative.
Matter of perspective.
Pan left pan right - all framing.
Move up and down - we’re just playing.
Only the story changed.
A new piece of language - rearranged.
Time Marches On
Quarter of a century old.
Would not be so bold.
To suggest that i know.
How it is that beauty grows.
Thought I had things figured out.
Trusting that victory I would tout - all clout no doubt.
Sometimes you gotta accept defeat.
Admit and aknowledge you're beat.
You're wiser now - hardened and bold.
No longer so easily sold.
The train rumbles - the engine grumbles.
The wheels whine - the tracks mime.
Thi train mechanically decorates its timeline with rythm.
The past unread.
Faded and dead.
Chapter closed.
Highs and lows.
The cycle ticks.
Her wheels click.
Time beats vieter.
Clocks sit lighter.
A wake up call for us all.
To stand up strong and tall.
A death timer drips.
Her hidden fabric rips.
Corporate America
And what do you do?
Oh just a dev are you?
Nothing much to say.
Just bits every single day.
But that’s not really you.
That’s not who are in true.
You are a world to behold.
Next time answer in bold.
We are all.
Just kids dressing up as adults y’all.
Speaking fancy words.
Uttering elaborate blurbs.
Our eyes dim when we bullshit too long.
Work theater obfuscates lines right and wrong.
Silence
Calm and slowing.
Mystical and knowing.
Patience and might.
Enchanted with creativity and insight.
The quiet.
A mind's diet.
Peaceful silience.
The absence of psycholoigcal violience.
It’s Not That Deep
It's all rather simple - not that deep.
All rather silient - not a peep.
I have nothing new to say.
There is nothing special about today.
Yay and oy vey.
Separated by serendipitous fate.
Don’t pretend to invent - to create anything new.
It’s all been said before - done before by me and by you.
What’s special - this dance in this moment in time.
This song is unique with its own mix of rhythm and rhyme.
The weather again.
Something new we pretend.
You like this thing but not that.
Somehow we care greatly about your cat.
There is nothing new under the sun.
But that don’t mean that life ain’t fun.
Thank you
My wall extends a warm embrace.
Gifting me this special place.
She protects - grounds and respects.
Thank you dear wall - for all that you do.
For reminding me of what holds true.
They Them
I see you - you’re in pain.
Soul weakened by judgment and shame.
I hear you - you’re not insane.
You’ve suffered greatly - in this rotten game.
But - your energy is wrong.
You’ve thrown loyalty where it doesn’t belong.
To protect your soul.
You’ve pledged your allegiance to Satan's pole.
Ask yourself - is God here.
Or am I swimming in the very darkness - I fear.
Eshet Chayi Mi Yimtzah
This girl - a mystery.
This figure - unrealized history.
Hard to imagine.
A mythical dragon.
Once barking in the dark.
By myself - no one else.
Who will hold you when you stumble.
Her holy vine rumbles.
Kind.
Divine.
Modest.
Honest.
Your gaze will make me a better man.
Our light will remind me of what god demands.
Will I know when I meet you?
Will your smile pierce my heart through?
Will your face seem familiar?
Will your grace glimmer?
She sits in the corner - I know this feels different.
Strangely familiar - her eyes iridescent.
A warm cute chick.
Holding hands when the darkness grows thick.
To be known to be shown.
To be empowered in true tone.
The code can wait - for life is here.
Money can biat - but love is near.
Birthday Party
They say you're an adult when you're mind stops changin.
They say you've grown when your soul stops faintin.
I must still be a child then by that account.
Cause all I want to do some days is sit around and pout.
New Year Blues
New year blues.
Haunting clues.
Dreams mashed.
Hopes dashed.
The body remembers its trama.
The heart recalls her mama.
Journals wanting relief.
Heartache and grief.
Pit in the gut.
Queziness in glut.
Refuse to do this once more.
No - not like before.
Reflection and frustration.
An alternate dream suspended in imagination.
This moment afraid.
I will not be weak - I will not be played.
Peering into the future - heaven and hell.
Gazing into the crystal ball - I dwell.
Inevitable success and inescapable doom.
Wondering what stories this year might loom.
Nivvul Peh
Discovered sexuality.
Respecting and taunting her sanctity.
Heaven and fire.
Redepmtion and liers.
Welcome Back
Welcome back into my life.
Since you’ve been gone - hasn’t all bee delight.
Bringing back the old spiritual lenses.
Now with the latest divine consequences.
Ritual nourishes the heart.
She blossoms bussoms of art.
Baby safe - beyond her bath.
Rescued from the tubs murky wrath.
When the world gets blue.
I find strength in you.
In a spiritual romance.
An exstiential dance.
OTD
The bath water smells - tainted by rot.
Represents the worship of a god - that is not.
Don't forget the past.
A regret what doesn't last.
Years ago, imprisoned illusion.
Two decades - restriction confusion.
Viel now lifted. life free - dissolved restricted.
Recalling confinement.
Metal locks gray cement.
Prisoners see blue sky sun.
Life wasn't easy - but it has just begun.
Friendship
What are real friends.
When is it all no longer pretend.
When a man becomes your brother.
When you can trust him like no other.
Testing relationships.
Sharing pain in sips.
Do you really care.
Are you really there?
Patiently waiting for my best friends to bud.
For my brothers and sisters to rise from the mud.
Make Your Bed First
You don’t wish them well in your disdain.
You don’t celebrate their dance - cause you’re in pain.
The absense of love - a reflection of your soul.
Has nothing to do with them - everything to do with he who is not full.
Chazak Chazak
To be chazak is to do what needs to be done.
To execute when it’s tough - when you want to run.
To be chazak is to find hope when there is none.
To find that inner voice that opens the sun.
A flow needs to tested.
To be stressed and messed with.
Otherwise it exists in a dream plane.
In a green narrow lane.
The water must find its path - around interference it must pass.
A piercing of hope.
Do not sit and mope.
Your time will come - the voice suggests.
Just need to lay down and rest.
Takes work to stay fit.
Resilience to not quit.
Feeling good is feeling strong.
Staying chazak - the siren song.
Simple Kind Of Man
I just want to be a simple kind of man.
A decent job, a pretty girl - some land.
Good friends, nourishing food - that’s the plan.
Everything else is extra - beyond my stand.
Stages old as ages.
Dance between the pages.
On The Road
Some food a car a tent.
Nothing else need be sent.
Sustenance and shelter - a foundation.
No need for further complication.
FOMO
Fomo pretends - suggesting an undefined lack she upends.
The present - always seeking something less unpleasant.
Investigation reveals - this moment glourious this moment ideal.
Getting Ready
I’m getting ready.
My soul feels steady.
Building something rea.
Working the long game, ya feel.
When we connect I’ll BE there.
My soul - I will share.
Say darling won’t you join me.
Our groovy dance awaits - eternally.
Brought Back
Your voice brings me back from the brink.
Your timbre an emergent link.
Interrupts the darkness.
Forces me to refocus.
Flickers of progress and hope.
Glimmers of belonging to cope.
Perhaps life will be OK.
Perhaps night will give way to day.
When the world fails all.
Please be strong enough to crawl.
Brother, you seem far away.
You vibe has strayed.
I can see it in your eyes.
You are wearing a disguise.
Sister, you are not HERE with me.
I miss your cheer and glee.
I can taste it in your gaze.
Why the haze.
You are in pain but cannot trust.
You cannot share when trust is a must.
Either you are STRONG enough to speak the truth.
Or you perish - poof.
On The Road
Who am I when I fly?
When there is no need to pretend and nothing to hide?
Do I recognize this man in the mirror?
Do I now see myself somehow clearer?
Easy to connect to strangers on the road.
At home people distant and cold.
Learning from this time and this trip.
When I’m back home I just might flip.
Time Slipping
In an instant - time has passed.
In a moment - this era now lapsed.
Comfortably numb - under the sun.
Days and night a blur- I run.
Biking City
Bikes everywhere.
Whereever I stare.
Bikes flow like ants.
A synchonized trance.
Racks and baskets - transport people like packets.
Who Cares?
Work doesn't feel real when you travel.
Her stakes diminish - unraveled.
Who cares - this fancy dashboard,
Nothing makes me feel so tired - so bored.