Years Ago...

Desire unstated.

Wishes unspoken.

A glance is stolen.

A spell never broken.

Radiance glows within.

A warm flashing look.

And it drew me in.

That’s really all it took.

It’s a long strange highway

It’s a long strange highway we’re rolling down

Big city lights, small non descript towns

Urban delights, pastoral peace, lots of green, little bits of brown

Driving on down the line, taking it all in

Straight line speed, the long and winding road

The ups, the downs, the turn arounds and all things in between

Life is an open road, that part I do know

Where does it take us, where does it end

Rolling right along, lost in that feeling, right from the get go

This is where it goes down, this is the life

The stops and the gos, the ebb and flow

Take your pick, play it safe, or live on the edge of a knife

Guesswork Communication

So you call me deliberately slow, but I don’t
Know what to do with implications
All that’s meant to be so obvious
Joining the dots, figuring machinations

Words come easy, more often than not
It’s just sometimes, what’s said has latitude
That needs to be considered and figured
Too often the meaning is not what is understood

The essence of what is important
Is to admit to the clarity of feeling
Not trying to plot some comprehension
Till you get a head that’s thumping and reeling

So what when that clarity is inconvenient
To admit to even oneself can get so tough
Do you need to state, communicate?
I’d say, even a little, well put, is enough

Fleeting Dream

In a fleeting dream

A visually conscious stream

Don’t know where it’ll go

A journey so long and so slow

In God that we trust

The wind takes the words were it must

Don’t know how to defy

Instinct that’s built to multiply

Always wanting more

Feelings beyond a smoky glass door

Don’t know what it is

Just that it is, the way it is

Just Talking

So from time to time, I might have spoken out loud

Wonder if it stuck a chord or jangled a nerve.

Hope the honesty can stir up some piquant thought

Hope you can keep up your pep, vim, maybe some verve.

Just airing out some things that needed to be said

Keeping it fresh, so there is no embedded dust.

Unclogging pipes, so as to speak, clearing the air

Hope you can keep your cool, you can keep calm, I trust?

4th Dimension

I hear you talking your heart out
All you say, everything it's all about
Do you hear me singing to you?
Get every word, does it ring true?
Is it the universe speaking to me?
Drawing out a pattern that only I can see?
Is it realisation washing over my head?
Where would I be, if I’m not here instead?

Where does this evolve and grow?
Which way is high, which is labeled low?
Riding along a spiraling wave
A black hole or merely an endless cave

Logic that curls in on itself, over and over
Feelings that crash into one another
Do what I can, often I do as I do
All I can do is hope I stay connected to you

Through the static, through the blinding noise
Through the dust that is blowing, the water that keeps flowing
It’s never a moment that its still, it moves
In riddles, in shapes that spin around, always growing

Changing colours, texture, temperature and light
It’s a different thing every time you change the point of view
It’s still the same as the moment realisation dawned
Something that we can’t understand, but always knew

Equus

The road’s twisted

Broad as the night

Easy to run

A railway flight

Don’t be afraid

Of the crazy dark

Deepest corners

Footsteps don’t mark

Where feelings hide

Deepest wishes

Greyed out dreams

Tiger’s tail swishes

Nights have magic

Look far inside

Seeds have sprouted

Grown far and wide

Back that truck up

That slippery slope

Try and cling to

Some desperate hope

The path is paved

With jagged stone

Cut your soul bare

And cut your bone

A word is dropped

A glance is flashed

Expression snared

A blank cheque cashed

With ragged light

A penny drops

Images fade

The dreaming stops

But it’s all here

Under the surface

Of your two eyes

Waiting to surface

When you least expect

Insidious calm

Gripping you tight

Subterranean intent

Rocking you numb

Vowing to protect