In pink ecstasy
Let thoughts of thine
My senses permeate
In rock bottom sorrow
Faith in thee strongest
In helplessness so utter
Thy footprints
My spiritual crutches
In bounty
Let greed a fiction be
Indifference a total stranger
In fame let pride …
Category: Poems
Don’t monkey around with dreams, my friend
It’s a risky game
No one really knows
When the nightmare stalks
Don’t play with the tides too often
They can be so deceiving
The surface currents chart never
The fathoms underneath
Don’t tie a …
This time I send her roses
Of the most exquisite
And exotic strains
Gently plucked from the loveliest
Gardens of the deities
Ribbons of gold, diamond and rarest
Of the gems
Guild them like rainbows
O’er sparkling prairies
Ah, my heart …
Along deltas undefined
Scarecrows like fireflies grow
Suffocating time
Strangling the future
Blitz against blitz
Ghost castles rise
In between meteors collide
Nightmares in our veins
Mind waves create field rage
Holocaust in our hearts
At the apex light and darkness merge
It isn’t the exercise
Of power that one gains strength
But in its constant restraint;
The greatest being that ever lived
won eternity in his stillness.
It isn’t in the arrogant
Display of authority that one begets respect;
But how fairly …
Lent is a finishing act
When Jesus sheds of mortality
When Judas willfully obeys the scribe
… takes the loyalty test
And executes the plan
Jesus passion is a biblical tragedy
A mandate the lamb must obey
Caiaphas’ lust for power …
Baptize me into your emptiness
Infuse me with the fascination of sacrifice
That I may accept poverty as a voluntary
Ministry
Toward the abandonment of myself
Invite me into your private Calvary
Let me join in your mission
Of total surrender