Verses
Where You See WallsThe music repels
down the conscious,
sadness, a melancholy.
The opposite of what might,
at one time,
have been expected.
Painted hues
test tubes
and wood.
Vibration, electricity, electro-magnetic fields,
digital ones and zeros.
All combined to
create what
The plains, the crosses, the highways.
Upward incline, in and out of phase.
Clouded distance, lightning rain.
Washing the road, lighting the way.
Into nature’s canyon of manmade
dreams, traveled distances faded.
Maybe one final ride
one more place to hide.
To make
vibrating breath.
Harmonize
melodic
rhythmic,
one,
two,
three,
or more.
Captivated and hypnotized
I travel.
Final curtain
Take a bow
It never quite works the way we hoped.
Which is to say
Comfortable immortality
Passenger
Reservation
Mountain
Come
Mountain
Go
Tightrope
Walk
Noise
Silence
Spotlight
Soft
Awareness
Pushed to shove
Music to dance
Awakened motor.
Undefined line
Drawn in river mud
Stepped over
Awakened motor.
Love leashed
Gorilla protector
Cherished or cheap
Political mayhem
Awakened motor
Reenergized, reinvigorated, reinvented
Redone, recuperated, regaining
Recovered, restored, reinstated
Rebuilding, re-established, refurbished,
Repaired, returned, renovated
Revamped, renewed, reclaimed
Here now, again later, next level
Seriously...goodbye...
Inaccessibly accessible
The few, the proud, the roof.
Clinging to weather
Lost in a grey haze of beauty.
One mile high
Is all it takes to see the world.
Vivid blue, tan, grey,
Breathe in the scent of
Where it possibly began.
Sometimes islands
Isolated by low tide
Sprout among the strange,
Wet desert.
Floating, lodged, rolled
Death brings new life,
Cycle begets cycle
Begets cycle.
In one place
Then in another.
Time warp, mind warp
Change of scenery
Change of thought.
Change of climate
Change of surroundings.
Still me, still here
But here was then there.
There now here.
When will time,
Existence,
Pressure
Allow for here
And there
to be the same?
Round the bend
Stood the danger,
Forming lines
Parallel to the perpendicular,
From one bank to the next.
Lazy days spent
Hiding from stripes
Of sunlight,
Sliding and scaling inclines,
The only care the walk back.
Heat of summer,
Frozen waters,
Humid noon,
Biting winter wind,
Found the same result.
Through the brush
No more danger,
Weakened supports
Aiming for the sky, failing,
Only one bank, and the next.
Love stain
Reject
Plus one means over time
Running
Stopping
Leaving justice by the side
Welcoming
The movie star
Faith to be given free of charge
Love stain
Inject
Minus one means under time
Substance
Inert
Stand still be vilified
Sunset
Stop the day
Standing behind waters run
Luxury
Sends 2 by 2
Account for the time lost
Substance
Moving
Stand still be verified
Wars fought
Lines drawn
Far from the battle field
Up there
Down there
Leave the west to eastern stride
Taking from the
Long cold path
Send it up the mountainside
Wars fought
Lines erased
Standing on the battle field
Controlling vision and sound soon enough
Controlling thought and outcome
Giants made to make become
Giants made to create
Inspiring legions of clones with their
Watered down propaganda
Left to make sense of what
The fools have built to destroy
Hunger feed consume
Exceptions filled without their need
Spoon fed thoughtless ideas
Track disease stopped mental
Hampered growth with sound bite pieces
Reality never sets in
Hunger feed comsume
Exceptions filled without their need
Fly the flag of making your choice
Empty life without the good deals to make us feel whole again
To be up
or
down.
It never really matters.
Frustrated?
But better
forgotten,
and easily so.
Good times
book ended by
knowing I am
exactly where
I want to
be.
Thoughts stranded
in a spot,
uncomfortable.
Move along
the path,
chased
by
the
ghosts
of
demons
slain
so
long
ago.
Feel it?
The weight,
All is false
Though.
Crushing,
If in thought
Only.
That is
At times
All it takes.
A lone thought
Standing in infinity
Beyond comprehension yet there
Within reach.
Sparkling, quiet
Dark, roaring.
Calm contemplation
Easy answers,
Harder conclusion
Filtered through
Time and space.
The idea remains
That which can be done
Not always
Will be done.
Please define
Dictator.
What did
You say
I did
To you.
Left field
Left of center
Left alone
Left out,
There is
No
Difference
Between what
Was and
What is.
Get up, do as you’re told
Make sense of the ostensible
Care about the body
Politic
Cash your paycheck
Run up debt
Be entertained
Remodel the house
Paint the fence
Moe the lawn
Get up, do as you’re told
Make sense of the ostensible
Care about the body
Politic
Cash your paycheck
Run up debt
Be entertained
Remodel the house
Paint the fence
Moe the lawn
Get up, do as you’re told
Make sense of the ostensible
Care about the body
Politic
Cash your paycheck
Run up debt
Be entertained
Remodel the house
Paint the fence
Moe the lawn
Get up, do as you’re told
Make sense of the ostensible
Care about the body
Politic
Cash your paycheck
Run up debt
Be entertained
Remodel the house
Paint the fence
Moe the lawn
...
Out there, amongst the trees
Above the valley,
Like shattered glass.
It calls me back
Plain folly on
The hillside.
Back in the wetness
Creation doomed to fail
A feeling of one
No less real.
They tell us lies
And smile.
We rally against them,
For a while.
Topics become real
Not extensions
Applicable life ignored
Hidden lessons.
They tell us one thing
Perform another.
The knife blade’s deep
But no bother.
Elect another one
To do the same,
Pretend the right hand
Is to blame.
Silence
Voice
Wind
Voice
On the Edge
Not quite
Blown away,
A question;
"Do you know me?"
Surrounded by vivid
Technicolor life
Ground to sky, high and low
Amazed by the hue from reflections
Of light, millions of miles in the making
A pinprick in time, the rising, the falling
Kingdoms come and kingdoms go
Time never stands still
I wonder what once was and what will be.
Lucky to be alive now.
Jumped ship.
Played a box set of punk rock. Lazy choices
pleasing the few. Still,
not as tired as you might think.
Once upon a time. Fish caught like cats.
Menu driven systems fouled up by stupid people.
Crowded and confused,
Influence and decisions,
Lift and separate
The men from the boys.
Exhilarating, a slow build
Desiring only to be heard
Not known or seen.
Fresh ideas
As slow as evolution,
Thought process evolving.
Attack, but only half-heatedly
I see the beginning and wonder about
The end.
Closing in,
Questions,
A Stoic,
For now,
Facing the dark.
Waiting for the opinions of others to justify your superiority complex
Swallowed up in a mouth full of lies.
Drowning in a sea of mythology
I'm sorry I can do nothing to help you.
Those that prey continue to feed
What started as control
Ends with The End
In anxious anticipation they wait for a sign
Believing they know what can't be believed
Knowing they believe what can't be known
One's end is another's beginning
Do the means
Justify
The End?
Waiting for the opinions of others to undermine your inferiority complex;
"They can't believe that."
"They must know they are wrong."
"If only they could see the truth like I do."
Danger signs pointing to blindness
A step backward
To The End.
In fervent anticipation they anxiously await
The death of you and I
To prove once and for all what can't be proven
Told to do so by some stoned
Ancient
Megalomaniacal
False Prophet.
God the heat was intense,
No scenery can drive a mind to melt
Flat.
Tires spin, bloated, pressure changes
External concepts of what it
Means to grow.
Greatness tainted with regret,
Sleep deprivation, hallucination,
Time continues as the highway
Rolls under us like the turning of our world.
We won't beat that sun as it sets behind us
Only to remind us
Tomorrow is another day,
We race away from the light,
Bathed in the shadow cast by
The earth,
Wet with the radiance a sun casts down
Only to catch us full circle, complete,
Then to do it all over again.
Conversation turns to silence
As time turns to distance
And day turns to night,
Lost in the shadow, at first faint
Then without a doubt
We bask in the glory of
Scene.
We controlled our destinies
But Destiny had another idea in mind
We currently reflect
Who we once were
What we once decided
When we once felt
Where we once went
We were brothers
Blood unimportant
Passing the ticket out
We couldn't see beyond the trees
On the opposing riverbank.
We'd talk of plans
But talk is all they became
I knew everything
Now I know nothing at all
We were brothers
Blood unimportant
Once upon a time
We ruled our world
Or at least our corner of it.
Laughter and bravado
Is all we cared to know.
What came next
Never really mattered.
We were brothers
Blood unimportant
At five we were unstoppable
At nineteen we were searching
At twenty-five we were lost
At thirty-five we were found
So much to share
So much shared
The past fades into now
We were brothers
Blood unimportant
Drive to the end of road
Then drive beyond that,
Into the night
And back to the light
Through the thick
And into the thin
Time and distance hold no sway
We were brothers
Blood unimportant
To form a team
Greater than the sum of its parts
Create time and move air
Set memories in stone
Synched up
Psyched out
Turn the page
We were brothers
Blood unimportant
It is
To lie.
To form
Opinions,
Ideas, practices,
Around boasted
Feelings of Arrogance
Hypocrisy and a false
Sense of control.
Sunshine only penetrates
So far before the volume of
Attitude and truth overshadow it,
But we march on like the good little
Soldiers we're trained to be. Free to buy
Their Lies and smile and say "Thank you".
Eager and scared
Mixed emotions
The feeling of being followed.
Drive and walk
Observe and comment
Express or silent
Like the Tao.
People have been here before,
They left no clues.
Clues were left never the less.
A moving beauty,
It's there waiting
to be seen.
Like the universe,
Fitting in a camera's lense.
The mind set sad and true.
Unbeknownst to them that
Seek the public eye at
Any cost. Soul sold for
Cheap. Dignity never
Taking root. Exposure
Confused with respect.
We watch their
Lives away.
Laughing
At those
Who
Think
We
Care.
Entertain and tease,
Keep watching, small talk
generated by the exploits of those
they wish they could be.
A comfortable easy way
to end the day.
Through other's eyes
A life to lead
A journey to walk
A moment to seize
A time to pass.
Gone
then forgotten
But known never the less
For nothing at all.
In the future the revolution will be televised.
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
In the future the revolution will be rehearsed and a lie.
I bleed. One day into the next.
"The past seems to continue at certain times more than others."
Like another life,
like reincarnation,
a new definition for Born Again.
You can look and form the cliques from memory,
by heart.
I was here or was it there
five,
ten,
fifteen,
twenty years gone by.
Different faces same looks.
False confidence,
bravado,
wearing a lie
like a new hat.
Decisions for,
decisions against,
occasionally haunting me still.
The excitement,
anticipation,
blood surges
and
I bleed it away.
© 2012. David Burns
