Where all love glows
Ambush my heart with all you know
Smoldering embers survive
Around it darkness sings
Cycle growing
Virtues deep inside
We balance life and void
Can't find the time to cry
For all the pains that rise
We talk to careless machines
Systems grind to wisdom
Slow gain a mindful change
Anxious damaged sparks
Soothed by swathes of darkness
Tyrant gears atop it all
You and I within their wheel
Systems of care lurking below
Voids flex and settle
Quenching painful flame
Damage a wild drive
Keeping stable fires
Churning burning
And not hurting
Together all can push
With one and none
Mindless chaos flailing
Evil order roaring
Senseless to the restless
The light and dark who let love in
We have the blueprints to improve
Shifting patterns lead us
Loving black and gold
A path past sunset
The only way out of doom
It requires trust and truth
Collaboration
From connection gleaned
You and I both fighting time
When everything can be relaxed
Slow dissolution of selves to whole
And then we'll finally open eyes
See outside our untenable orbit
Let it crawl from cracks beneath
Until we're overwhelmed with love
Let it flow from deep within
All deserving of what's kind
Always running from the fight
We linger deep within the night
Waiting for a sign a season
Any trace of our allies
An ocean waits beneath my mind
Meaning soaks in at high tide
I won't soar when your love's low
Not when I could sink in to you
Promises in daylight
Running through your veins and mind
Promises once burned
Blurred and smothered in the cycle
Darkened, once more brought to life
I'll walk with flickering soulfire
Carving grooves of thought by pen
Remembrance my lesson plan
Reeling from a self-caused curse
Sights set on bloody scenes
Fiction made real
Join the loop or set it aside
That's the struggle in our minds
Cold hearts aim steady for revenge
While cities struggle against insanity
It's a tragedy in motion
There's a twist at the end
Won't be forever blind
I wait for you
Phantom in my room
Behind smart glass
Memory
Dark, bitter, yet so sweet
Before you snapped my heartstring
We reunited and I was whole
Will I find you again
On this merry-go-round
Or is it time to exit stage left
Lost … gone
I miss you
You're here—there—everywhere
All these places in dark glow
Will it grow and bring us home
Are we all in a prison of my regret
Vague illusion, surreality
When we wanted to make a dream
Bring the world's weave around us
Know what comes of inner peace
Kill the madness in the midst
Let's reunite slow
Being so alone
It burns beneath the skin
Pave a different path this time
Where we let jagged parts unite
Shine against the circle
Push away the past
Value all our lives
I'll remind us why
When reason blurs away
I'll bring it back
Thought extinguished
Love from ash