babylon is fading

sparking retina
telling faceless lies
watch it fade
absent secret
nameless story
detonated thought
crushing brilliance
simple sorrow
full mind
treasured words
soft beginning
sudden end

a faceless shadow in her own reflection
milk and honey and all things pure fall from her eyes
telling a story from long ago
before there was meaning in small treasures
her hands small bearing the burden that is now held as if once delicate feathers
as the sea becomes still, only a face bearing sorrow remains; staring back

smooth dark edge
piercing small wet skin
burnt eyes, numb dullness
solo perching mountain mist
draining sorrow, harmony left
deep blue sleep

Jetsam, sedation, ocean embrace,
Your vast black tundra
Rejects the moon like a villain.

A villain in a spoonful of silence,
Beaming like a drunken idiot,
Doleful in divine embroidery.

The servants whimper,
Their Master has devoured the sun!
Picked his teeth with its final rays,
And spit out the bones of perpetual
Night.

It is here we taste our exile.
The vines of our fruit,
Our effortless fruition,
Stripping salvation from erect nipples,
The obsequiousness of fettered, pious
Breast beasts.

Decry the night!
We cannot feast under the eviscerated heaven
That shifts no balance, endures no wine.
The vineyards are cemeteries,
Coiled and grey, twisting tortured
Into dust and clay.

Resurrect the corpse sun,
Regurgitate its supple rays so the servants
May again clamber and arrive at “wisdom”.
Arouse the flowers of the vineyard
on the lips of doting monarchs.

To sedate the ire of Babylonian kings!
Once more!

written by rtav

my eyelids drift slowly shut
connecting through the cosmos
we meet in that silence
exchanging dreams
through a solitare kiss

when I see you everything becomes clear
the muddy water instantly purified
my past, present and future
all shown to me in that breathe
exactly what I’ve always known

you close your eyes
listening for the voice
that’s always guiding you home
exchanging those words
breathing life into your lungs
as I sigh at your beauty

our love surrounds us
like moths to a flame
telling stories of our lives
then and to come
whispering with tiny voices
exactly what we’ve always known.

back against the earth
I become one with the mother
I breathe with the wind
my hair blows with the grass
I walk with the leaves
and cry with the lake
the sunshine is my smile
taking in the eternal life
a swan smiles, sailing by

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