babylon is fading

words can act like a prison
holding you where you are
everytime you see the light
they pull you right back down

the fear we create in ourselves
can make or break our lives
the words others say that spark those fears
are like sharpened kitchen knives

“you will never find anyone better than me”
I’ve heard a million times
“I’ve changed this time for real”
I’ve heard a million more
How long will it take for people to realize their crimes
holding someone back because you are scared

you don’t follow your heart and then you have regret
you end up sad and hollow, you lost your only bet
you thought it best for the kids, but what you don’t see
is that they really want you to be happy
but they aren’t old enough to disagree

some people prefer misery
horses will run back into a burning barn because they feel safe
firemen find little kids burned to death under beds and in closets.

all of them could have easily escaped but stayed living life out of fear.

just for today
forgive but don’t forget
learn from the past
don’t hold a grudge

just for today
let go of fear
it gives you regret
are you in control of your life
or does life control you?

just for today
smile, you’re alive
the sun is shining
even above the clouds
just change your perspective

just for today
doing something nice
it’s the best reward there is
karma will take care of the rest
if you don’t who will?

just for today
be honest with yourself
take time to balance your energy
don’t spread yourself too thin
and don’t forget to have “me” time.

just for today
love who you are
see how you got here
see where you want to go
make it happen

just for today
feel the love of a friend
love someone else for no reason
love isn’t about what you get
it’s about what you give

just for today
live like it’s your last
and if you wake up again tomorrow
live for the next

just for today
follow what’s in your heart
it will never fail you
balance it out with your mind
and make the choices that are best

just for today
live forever.

a fleshy affair of love torn wondrous gazers
clambering for the vision of day
while wrapped in the musty garb of night.
but without night the drugs of reason
care nothing for the plight of flesh,
without night the dreams forspoken
are wasted on wispy cotton monarchs
and the vaulted, insatiable overseer of sky.
how can we be reminded of pleasure?
how can life remain the warrior of death?
far from us, this flesh, the energy of night
cries out like a flailing beast.
forgive us, for you are the true king,
our liege lord for whatever purpose lingering.
and in our senselessness we bend knee,
only to see you raise your hand like
jesus
and avenge the frailty of light in our hearts.
repaired for the vision of time,
replaced and pardoned to once more seek eternal,
and placidly drink, swallow, and swoon
to the only true window of life,
and await the only true embrace of sorrow.
it is the unguarded gifter,
it is the faceless god.

written by rtav

Bus ride
Pretty girls
Old stoic man

Wealth strands
Loose strings
Child enthrallment

The black window
I see myself
Dying to save them

written by rtav

Herald of fire
Injured in the speaking
He no longer has faith
Life in chaos
Ardent conquest
Many guile faces
Constructed of loose terror
Smiled at
Thrown to the stones
And wincing from the fall

Errant shadows
Groaning curiously
Erect in the naked display
of a Star God’s pro-creation.
His eunuch children conspire
Beneath him.

written by rtav

I feel like my mind is a blank canvas
and here I stand with a brush
I don’t even know where to start
I just sort of watch the paint dripping off the brush onto the floor
and then I take a nap

The pavement shimmered like midnight mines of diamond in the moonlight…
nearby walls painted by can, sprawled on wall, the words: NO WAR.

The Universe is but a child’s toy, a sphere the size of his little palm; and on the bottom is a pull cord which, when pulled, creates a dazzling, brief explosion of light within the sphere. We exist in the life span of that combustion, and each time the cord is pulled, a new universe is formed. Your life is but a exciting moment of light, that blinks to nothingness in the time it takes for a child to laugh with glee.

written by rtav