Heed
What treacherous currents lie
Beneath a seeming
Picture of serenity

None but ourselves
Or circumstance
Point our inertia
Towards consequence
Binding us
To dance with fate
Swinging to the sound
Of heartbeats fading

Leave behind
Those crumbled ruins
Faded memories of glory days
To seek out better views
From fertile lands
On which to build
Something the likes
The world
Has never seen

Don't fear the grey
Praise the rains
With naught but sun
Set in blue
Life wastes away
And ceases

It always gets worse
Before it gets better
Pick up the pieces
Of your broken heart
And stitch it back together

Come dream with me
Of cloud side strolls
Past castles
Build from lost ideals
Lazy swims
In lakes of hopes
Once vibrant
Now long forgotten
Shadows of a world
That never came to be

Back home
Where you can
Feel the weight of luggage
Lift
As you leave
The world
Outside

In my rearview mirror
I see places, people
I cannot recall
Did my sanity betray me
Or is just
My memory fading

Unbroken
Defiant
Suffered your worst
Endured it all
Soul survivor
The storm
Before the calm

Time persists
Seasons drift
Upon waves
Synced lunar beats
Perception shifts
Speeding us
Ever forward

Affection
Frustration
Equal amounts
Rising
Falling
Upon passion's waves
What strange charm
Our love became
Once we stopped
Communicating

Discarded warnings
Without change
The trust I gave you
Slowly fading

Excuse me, sir
I do believe
You're treading
On my patience

Moods dim with the light
As the days start to shorten
Help spread joy
Each smile you find
Pay it forward

Light fades
Colors change
As autumn paints the world
In shades of golden amber
Life seeks warmth's embrace

Sweet delusion
Show me sights
Reality's
Afraid to face

Given equal opportunity
Life's still brighter
For the optimist

Seas of suits
High on greed
Flexing their
Business libido
A sharks nest
Turned upon itself
Bared teeth
Elbows and egos

Within our
Fragile minds
Good memories
May dig in deep
To hide from fears
Aware
Awake
Alive
Below its surface

Messages
Marks of white
Drawn across
The endless sky
Drift high above
The unseeing lost
Unaware the irony
Their heavens
Hold all the answers