All Else is Unreal

I dreamt up a paradise...

Turquoise sky and purple haze

Green fields with many a maze

Peacock feathers raining down

My mirthful, vibrant, little town

I envisioned a utopia...

The amber shades of earthen glory

A whiff of citrus tells my story

Droplets of crystal in my palm

Sprinkled chocolate, that rich charm

I imagined Elysium...

Glass gates opening into cotton clouds

They shelter earth like silky shrouds

Anthem of serenity lilting about

Such beauty will put reason to rout

I pictured Eden...

Tiki statues carved in teak

Soft breeze, cold water leak

Thick mist brings blurry sunlight

The smell of peace, a touch of white

I dreaded to dream,

To envision, to imagine

I willed not to picture

An unreal joy

A facade of beauty.

For my happiness resides in reality

My reality...

Is you.

A Stranger in My Life

Hello, stranger...

I know your name

Drug-stained lips that

Spewed out lies

Those dirty arms that

Clasped me tight

You had it all when

You had me

I lost it all when

I let you in

Hello, stranger...

You dishonest thief

I saw you for who

You really are and will be

I thought I was who

Could turn over your story

You opened me up,

You broke me

You shattered my trust,

I'm breaking free

Hello, stranger...

With a disturbed mind

I write lyrics for you

In praise of your betrayal

I sing songs for you

Celebrating the massacre

I loved you for all

That you were

Now I hate you for all

That you've done to me

Stranger, you were mine

My very own

But now...

Goodbye, stranger.

Romancing the Night

A step into the solemn night

I saw the streets, devoid of light

I felt a tingle in my bones

Bewitching sky, it's dark tones

A quick gasp, a charmed smile...

Shadows of the moonlit trees

An avenue of mysteries

I felt a soft hand fondling mine

That God of black, Oh so divine

He was with me, I felt his love...

I walked into the noir montage

So aroused, by that moon-drenched collage

The street so serenading, so silent, so calm

I felt his finger, drawing hearts on my palm

That love from darkness. At home, at home...

As the blackness caressed me, tender

I guessed not my new love's gender

I let myself feel his lukewarm touch

I followed- a lame damsel with her crutch

I made my night, a knight- my own...

Silhouettes of the night sky on my street

Lucid in an aphotic way, my bare feet

I walked on the gravel, it tickled my toes

I forgot my worries, the spelling of 'woes'

Falling in love with a rayless air...

I don't need a man, no woman will do

I found the one I will profess my love to

The blank colour that pervades post twilight

That positive darkness of my midnight

My cimmerian solitude of sensual salvation...

I'm Right Here

When love is what you seek,

When you want to know

Someone listens when you speak,

When you want to feel

A kiss of care upon your cheek,

When you want to hear

There is hope when all's bleak,

I'm right here...

If it's answers you want,

If the world turns away

When your lips begin to vaunt,

If purple skies are too far

And those soft clouds too gaunt,

If mirthless thoughts

Spread in your mind to haunt,

Turn to me...

Feel my touch,

I will hold you till your skies are blue

I will tell you your joy is true

Erase all foreboding, predict your smiles

Fill utopian petals in all your aisles

Just look at me...

Yours now, all of it...

What was once mine

Is now yours.

That which touched me,

Held me so close,

Whispered secrets of unbound love,

Breathed in my air,

It stroked my hair,

It looked at me

With eyes of serenading hope,

Pulled me in like hollow vacuum,

Those lips that met mine

In wet trysts, ever so often,

That voice

It satiated hunger, quenched my thirst.

Yours now, all of it...

Yours now, all of it...

Free Falling..

Beyond seas of forlorn faces

Away from languid ways of life

To fill colour in empty spaces,

Free falling..

Deaf to the groaning dishonest

Blind to lecherous eyes

Heart beat tender within my breast,

Free falling..

Wafting fragrance of scented candles

Lilting sound of giggles

Remembering those loving dandles,

Free falling..

Over friends, their caressing smiles

Reliving soft kisses from him

Swooping down a hundred miles,

Free falling..

Eyes shut in tender bliss

Lips in tranquil grin

All is well, none's amiss,

Free falling..

Arms spread open so wide

Body so soft and light

Taking the world in my stride

Free falling..

I rise no more, conflict no more

Give in no more, give up no more

Potent enough to take it all,

There I go,

Free falling..

Nothingness- Fear of the Dark

That fearsome black, that empty infinite

Dark, dead and bereft of tangible life

Nothing to see, nothing to see with

No air to breathe, no breath to begin with

Vacant existence, nothingness booms

I am no longer me, there is no I

There is nothing, no earth, no sky

No soul, no mind.. Emptiness prevails

Where am I? There is no I

No me, no self, no my

Not a note of sound, not a sight to see

That black so black, it's absolute

None exist in this dark hollow

It's on it's own, this dark hollow

Vacuous winds of null solitude, they wallow

That frightful nothingness..