I Prefer Not To.
pray this memory
tell no lies
in light
of truth
since shone
to strip me
of my last reprieve
pray not
these newly fallen whispers
speak ill
of our erstwhile tales
should they unravel
all my world
would vanish
into despair
for every sinuous
sorrow felled
arose
a sanctuary
that once
we shared
to dare
such dreams expire
but time
forever
radiates
in solemnity
and thus i am fraught
with this aching moor
of that which
i can never
come to mourn
in the middle of the night
on a frozen platitude
it was simple and sublime
just a thinkin’ ’bout you
there is beauty in all things
for it exists within our words.
one mustn’t hazard any
further contemplation.
the time to speak is now.
resonate sonorously
with prosody profound.
each soul must
sing its song.
imbue your voice
upon the world
’til your heart
rings the truth of love.
with harmonic resolve.
love looms
amid the earthen shrine
in contrast with truth
pressing onto parchment
muted musings left lingering
for glancing eyes
that gaze in contempt
aghast at the ongoing display
of decadent debauchery
never have they known
such indiscretion
yet none can speak
for what is known
the radiance
disarming
its cadence grows stronger
echoing into the abyss of anguish
from one
to other
bearing no consequence
of relevant toll
rolling like a snow-bound stone
enjoyed by the sun
all of these ancestral affectations
airs of artifice
agonizing over every breath
spilled out onto the landscape
like leaves leading to disarray
in lost portrayal
sweet strands of vermilion
lick like flames
framing such fragile alabaster allure
alone and aloft
soft tones of humility
exuding from hearth
set upon this heart
rekindled by kindred coalescence
windswept into one regret
and set to the serenity
of solitude’s song
These thoughts of you
Invade my every waking sense
Weakening with bated breath
Wreaking chaos
In roseate efflorescence
I walk the edges of eternity
Faltering at every step
through faults of amphicheiral aching
Where fragments form our firmament
To compose in erstwhile prose
And wistful reclamation
Transposing woes
Into frozen waves of piercing
Shattering on stuttered shores
Of dormant adoration
Awakening the ardor
Of dreams lost to translation
Where stardust softly tends
The silence of surrender
as i peered
behind the veil
of black damask
a plundering gaze
deconstructed me
allaying consequence
all realms succumbed
to the crucifixion
of time itself
a relevance entombed
days past
to find my countenance
content
at last
reason itself was redefined
as blissful semblance
enshrouded my listless senses
precious sands
sifted into rifts
adrift, i stood
on shifting ground
as echoes torn
from lost dimensions
resounded
in a boundless burst
of cosmic influx
to lift the curse
of gravity’s crux
like dust
thrust
into blustery plumes
of ruminant sediment
strewed asunder
her words give birth
to songbirds
arranged in strange striations
and when they call
all the heavens
start to fall as wintry feathers
into the mercy
of an erstwhile whisper
from pursed lips
pricked with petaline pigments
immersed
in otherworldly waves
she bathes the light
triumphant
without her semblance
all is but for naught
to doubt her tenor
fate should heed to falter not
for it is she alone
who shall usher in the dawn
auspicious
the silence reigns
broken
a familiar smoke
potent with poignancy
awoke time
within itself
seeping through the rift
of heedless mind
every sense besotted
with tenses past
and present
disparity so stark
a nothingness became me
folding every breath of hope
upon an inward entropy
the truth thus revealed
through open eyes
omnipresent
had wracked my soul
in quantum rapt
of love i knew
will always know
will never be
again
Come the idle hour of midnight
Shadows rise into the hollow
Beckoning the toilsome plight
To reckon through the isle in wallow
Seas succumb to fate’s abandon
Churning brisk aberrant tides
Writhing in our indignation
Spindly wraiths with spiraling eyes
Ashen petals land subduing
Withered hopes of exaltation
Bleak as truth doth summon rue
Pray our embrace bequeath salvation
Max, or Not 
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