Life on the Hyphen

Please mind the gap!

They yelled at the equilibrist

as he balanced between

eternities.

Walk the line like

Johnny Cash,

high up way above

the solid ground.

They found it exciting.

And what does it all mean?

How can something be

defined by it's failure

to be neither one

nor the other?

Everybody was clapping

by now.

Bye now, he waived.

But maybe there is a continuum

of being and meaning

on the brink of something new?

A link, bridge-like from the past.

Oh! Did you see that?

I can't believe

You've missed it.

Prayer For Renewal

Jump-start my heart

Refresh my flesh

Beckon my bones

Stir up my soul

Move in my mind

About the Meaning of Words

What if words really meant what they say?

If ghostwriters were ghosts writing stories

and skyscrapers scratched heaven's itchy spots?

If cell phones were only used in prison and

'needless to say' would mark the end of a phrase?

What if my words really meant what I say?

Would my love shine as bright as day?

I wish words would mean more what they say.

Daylight Saving Time

Moments

Slipping through my fingers

Time is restless

It doesn't linger

I thought of words

But I did not speak

I though of friends

But I could not meet them

Wedneday

You made my day

But I made nothing of it

What a waste!

How can I save time

When I need saving

Myself?

out of my mind, into the truth

writing wasted words on walls

thumbing through theory

to transcend the train of thought

mesmerized by melting moments

this time my mind is wide open

colorblind and hazy-eyed tonight

i see the world in white

and black but mostly wholly bright

to my shock: "surprise!" the earth

tonight seems paralized in flight

with my consciousness on fire

i clean-cut to the core of matter

shattering clay, tearing terra open

baring the planet's bones

until truth resurfaces in order

to be read and understood

already complex colors rain down

washing clarity away over the speed

limit. my mind cannot keep up

the drill and the earth it spits

me right out with my eyes wide

open and my mind hazy, occupied

with wishing for wiser words