Time is Standing Still

Movement on the floor
as the lights go down
Biting as they scurry
and crawl on the ground

Like robots automated
by the speakers and the sounds
Cadavers for a surgeon
who pulses and pounds

Time is standing still
He can’t see at all
He's writing his will
in a bathroom stall

She paints her face
on a waterfall
Wondering why
she can barely crawl

Their drinks splash and swirl
as they spill to the ground
The lights dance and twirl
as if frigged by the sounds

The pulse penetrates her
as she kisses the ground
Somehow it animates her
for one more round

Every man is a feckless pauper
Every girl is a superstar
But even lowly peasants
Explore their desperation at this bar

Until the lights cut on
and the music stops
Until the world stops spinning
And their hope is lost

Gone and soon forgotten

Lost in his focus
He finds a hidden secret
Imagined, implied, inside
As the seams unravel
A soft glow of travel
Stumble, crawl, and hide
Love's unpleasant burden
Hatched from binding focus
As it clots and bleeds inside
Unseen for a moment
Awakened from a coma
Nowhere for a spirit to hide
Where beliefs and uncanny thoughts
Checkered patterns swirl then gone
The bold lights flicker, blind
They revel in the animal he hides
Gone and soon forgotten
A promised land awaiting
His luxuries forsaken
At the gallows where they take him

Genie in a Box

Lips on the rail and bleeding gums
Caked on rouge in seedy slums
Open up wide
Give her a shout
House broken
Down syndrome
Innocent pout
Freeze the face to face the waste
Seize the place to race to grace
Let her down easy
Take her down slow
It doesn’t really matter
She has nowhere to go

All Dressed Up

Here she comes
On the weekend again
He has no worries
He has no friends
Someday perhaps he'll get his ass in gear
Right now it’s sticking to a leather chair

She's all dressed up
He's got nowhere to go
She's gonna look good
When it’s time for the show
Up all night
Feeling nothing but love
He'll get himself ready
when push comes to shove

He has his bar stocked
with tonic and gin
Got the limes cut
And shaved ice in the bin
The outside world
might as well be dead
The strippers are here
spinning on the pole in his head

All day long on the web again
Chat and text
and stranger’s IM’s
Dating sites
list his loves and dislikes
He'll be staying logged on
well past midnight

He's all dressed up
With nowhere to go
But she always looks good
When it’s time for the show
He'll be up all night
Feeling one thing, not love
Then he'll get ready
if push comes to shove

Errors in Design

Somewhere in the moment
I lost all sense of time
The world around was frozen
As I looked into her eyes

A once unspoken promise
Questions, compromise
Honesty uncertain
And errors in design

Something in her motion
Took me by surprise
The cross inside her broken
The light inside her died

Somehow in the moment
She lost a second life
The cogs and levers broken
A clock that can't keep time

With a forsaken promise
I found a compromise
Honesty was lacking
As I said goodbye

As day 'came night

When the moon was bright
The stars had shown
As day 'came night
And left him there alone
Inviting skies
Wandering eyes
Blind to every bone
When the sun was raised
The stars were gone
As night 'came day
He followed along
Filled with lies
Attracting flies
Singing a guilty song

Summer Love in May

An errant blessing
on the hottest day
Summer love
in the month of May
She chases seconds
She taunts the hours
Until the vines descend
Until the wheat becomes flour
Each moment in motion
Throughout months of bloom.
He resisted Winter's temptation
He waited for June

Silent Slip Toes

Silent slip
toes on the roof
A chimney and a brain

Softer shadows
Smirk and squirm
Forth 'twill moan and bane

Hiss and heaven
Horn and hair
Rumble, shrill, and cry

Walls are nothing
Nor the halls
Echo through the night

Cross eyed minds
and window panes
The world outside awakes

An empire's bed
on which I lay
eternities await

Silent slip
toes on the roof
A chimney and a brain

Softer shadows
Smirk and squirm
Forth 'twill moan and bane