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

Daydream interrupted
Two inquiring eyes
Seem not amused
I subconsciously
Tuned out
Her white noise
Sorry
I did not
Quite catch that
Dear

Don't fear
What comes next
Stare into the wind
And brave
The distant

Half a world
And a lifetime apart
I still
Will always have
A smile for you

I spy
Truths hiding
Obscured
Behind what is
Outlined by
Omission

Who be ye
Approaching stranger
Speak your words
Inconsequential
Which I will
Ignore

Cross me
And you will find
No mercy
I ain't the forgiving type
Don't expect
Second chances
Fool me once

Every sour word you utter
Feeds the urge
To shut you up
By shouting
You forking suck

Truth undesired
Is an ugly beast

Eyes front
Don't mind me
Just walk past my gutter
I may be down
But I don't need your pity

Play me a tune
From the b-side of misery
Something unknown
I may learn to sing along

Even when
You don't hear from me
Know
Even though life
More often than not
Gets in the way
I think of you

My body screams
Bitter truths
Frustrated
That I push on
Chasing
Each pleasure
Life may hold
Defying every warning
For I'm way too young
To feel this damn old

Place in me
A seed of trust
Allow it
To take root and blossom
So we may share
Its bounty

Grasping for
Moments gone
Opportunity
Might pass you
As darkness ends
New light dawns

Scars unseen
Are not
Unfelt

Problems pushed away
Unsolved, ignored
Won't stay buried