Honesty Among Friends

Honesty Among Friends

If I’m honest,

I know I should lie

to avoid getting kicked

while face down and grounded

by Earth’s carnal ways.   

You have no time or energy

For all that is important.

Truth sets free eyes that see

yet, you dare admit I’m not the

problem. It is my fault.

I’m making my own choices, too.

Are you deaf and blind?

Shhhhh, be dumb,

that was rhetorical,

I know I've been, too

but somehow in my face, my light,

you cannot see, let alone face your own problems.

So I’ll be honest,

I’ll bleed my tongue dry

in fear I may hurt you. Speechless

while you grill my heart, season my soul & release a burp;  

go on, cumin and I relieve your indigestion.

Intentions pierce this world

and we will be judged, you will

be judged like the way you chew me.

My silent cries rock you to sleep—

Sleep with your nightmares of reality.

No more pretending;

I’ve been unlacing the lingerie of

a fallen angel I once knew.

I finally begin to wake up.

I’ll be a damned fool.

You turned my world around when denying me

entry into your paradise but His Paradise is eternally longer.

Better than the short lived thing

we called love while we mocked Love.

Jesters weep at us when we’re on life’s tragic stage,

they know we’re hero-less unless

we win the waged war within.

I offer prayers for forgiveness

that keep me awake while you sleep.  

Prayer is better than sleeping with you

Positioned upside down digging hellish holes.

Shame on me, mercy on you.

No more dancing with me

I ruined us by giving myself

To you. I’m crawling back up

While your body signals, ‘SOS’

Save Our Souls.

Stop blinding me. I want to see—

You must turn on your own Light.   

Love's Dumb Pain

Love’s Dumb Pain

There’s a cord playing with

my blood muscle’s soul—

struck, plucked harp strings,

tickling to tune their songs of pain.

There’s harmony in my arteries, 

Hearts aren't all that break, carry

me to meet my familiar friend, again.

Hello, lONEly. You, who knew we’d grow old together,

and not with her. I suppose you knew,

just lied in wait, or did you forget?

Is this your way of saving me

the hassle? Finally, eyes see

clearly through these teary

messages writing notes on my cheek.

They don’t blind like

that damn cherub and his God

forsaken arrows. I see you

plain as anger sees pain

Old friend. Music

sounds better slowed down

to mimic that harmony, that

cord playing inside down

in my dark depths humming,

drumming, beating away

pain to make room

for more. Da dumb.

Da dumb. Da dumb.

I Don't Eat Bacon

“I don’t eat bacon”

I feel used. Like

everything's cliché, now.

We’ve gotten so good

in expressing our feelings we

believed them over logic

and bacon. Crispy

burnt thoughts driven

by ego, no

empathy; remorse? Ho!

And, I’ll probably get

a text message summary of

my mistakes using her

feeling words—

using only her

eyes and using me as her

meat for breaking fast. 

Pure Clover Honey

Pure Clover Honey

Lucky he covered

Her

Nudity

With pure clover honey, always

Local—

Unconscious to his

Seduction;

It’s sweet and

Stings to be

Her.