Gentle fade the words,
To not upturn
The havoc they unleashed.

Not until it's gone —
Watch the hand,
Lose the moment —
Will you know what you have done.

All that nourishes
Body or soul
Addicts —
Attention most of all.

Don't get me wrong —
I wish to love the goddess,
But let me get to know
The woman first.

Passive lives
Immune to will —
Coping, besting
Fates deliberate.

Lest I'll take
A wrong turn,
We will never
Meet again.

Repel, attract.
Be mine, an instant.
Commitment
Waxing and waning,
Ever rewriting —
Water on sand —
The temporal laws
Of distraction.

Fight for me,
Oh kindred soul,
That I survive
Should you so fall.

Happiness transcendence,
Innocence resilience,
Unbreakable free will —
Stubborn human Holy Grails.
Reality kills.

Puppy eyes,
Crocodile tears —
When the bite
Is not the thing
To fear.

Layered hell;
Public temperance of
Intimate doubts —
Ultimate betrayal of self
To fit
A broken mold.

Blight of my life,
Were I a pest,
You'd complete me.

Safety
A fantasy —
A Terran-evolutionary
Impossibility.
Stay alert.
Keep. Your. Guard. Up.

Incandescent
White luminescence —
Zombified, bereft of essence,
Tranquil moths flocking to
Hypnotic death.

Witnessed through filters
Psychological and physical
We tend to forget that
Our window to most beauty
Is external.

Happiness is
The little things that kill —
Safe your life,
Poison your will.

Warning, contamination.
Hazardous levels of hatred —
Lockdown initiated.

Independence the lie —
All life is connected,
Withers
When links sever.

Most legends a lesson,
Post-mortem —
Beacons of the fallen,
Warning us
What to avoid.

When certain, choose.
Reluctant? Refuse.
Your life, your rules.