A Daughter's Journey

A Daughters Journey

Where did time go

Elapsed like small grains of sand

Sifting through the hour glass

Of psychic photographs

Your life eclipsed

Behind the spectacles that lie

Gracefully on my face

Hidden through time and space

The lines they hold no truth

To the ease and comfort you afforded

The choices never easy

But worth every feeling

I the bow and you the arrow

I cast you out into the world to infuse all wounds

With wisdom and truth

Gathered experiences from my youth

Piercing the world with your own ambition

Eluding my knowledge

To prove yourself worthy

In your own eyes deserving

Oh how I crave the sweet smell

Of your innocence and breath

Heaven rains and exudes the erosion of white doves

My heart is so filled with love

~SAK~ 2011 copyright

Ancient Apocalypse

Ancient Apocalypse

History breathes words

To stones who lie and witness

The demise of man

~SAK~ 2012 copyright.
                   ~Paris 1999

Remember Me

Remember me

How can I sympathize with the wasted effort

Of words that show weakness?

Unforgiving and ruthless

Is the cycle that permeates

Through desire and containment.

A love that wages war

With indifference and confusion;

I am unable to withstand the time apart.

Salient, elusive,

I will not suffer a mesmeric lullaby

From the damage in your heart.

Gallant your knight efforts indeed;

 I give countless reasons

To escape loves tyranny.

I find comfort in

The dysfunction of

Your tremulous course.

Life is not conducive

To crying fits on the floor

As I confer with loves finality.

Unsustainable, indecisive,

 I will not suffer your minds duality.

How can I celebrate sweet nostalgia

In the shadow of

Your past that haunts?

What song will you play

For me in the pretenses

Of her arrival?

How will you patent comfort

As I watch discreetly,

Though I might wash away your fear?

I watch with shameless guilt

In the dark as you dry away her tears.

Do you not remember me?

Have you no fault

As I depart in sorrow?

Never awakening

The exact truth of the moment,

Imagined and exemplified.

Love has no chance

Without conviction

As complacency destroys the self.

Unrelenting, ruinous behaviors

Yield to your disdain and discount.

~SAK~ copyright 2009

     ~Tommy Edwards Photography

Deeply

Deeply

A heavy heart that binds

Drawing me towards a spiritual death

As I pierce my body the blood washes over

Cleansing the filth that the darkness collects

Through the looking glass I gaze

No vital reflection ensues

Thoughts tainting the outward view

Of whom I am so deeply

Tortured I lie stricken

This pestilence a truss to my existence

My wisdom anesthetized with discontent

My soul departed and weakened

From the life I long to lead

Not insane just afflicted

There is no poetic song depicted here

Or identified, it’s cruel intent subjectified

My breath flows in and out so freely

Yet I am not alive, I am numb

 Burdened with the sense of a world so cold

A place where in life, death also resides

I exist without resolve

Without purpose, so deeply blind to it all

Chastising the limits of my own mind

All the while keeping death so near

~SAK~ copyright 2011

             ~Tommy Edwards Photography 2012

The Edge

The Edge

I do know your suffering

Time seems to drag across

The dessert sands

So thirsty I reach out for the mirage

That was you

Our existence eclipsed

The shadow cast reflects

The demise of my own existence

Clinging to the edge in hopes

That you will stay

Oh the agony that my heart feels

What do I know about life?

I tread along its beaten path while

Words can neither heal nor convey

The nature of the destructive trail that lies behind us

I stare so intently at its ruin

My urbanized view of the decay

That rots away as I witness the famine

Left from the feast fed upon by my heart

And the trifle ill effect of this curse

I stand at the edge of my life

Whispering to the nights depth

So inclined to take its last breath with mine

Then falling to an endless wake

Amongst the moonlit sky

~SAK~  copyright 2012

The Executioner

The Executioner

When in darkness I came to you

To find peace and comfort

In your arms of strength and stability

Mesmerized by the tranquility you offered

I dare say that I was resurrected

From the chains of control and contempt

Lying in your arms I was exempt

From the art of living

My prince has now become The Executioner

Valliant his apology seems so sincere

I can no longer revere his thoughts

Nor the disdain that occupies his eyes

Time betrays and renders no wisdom

Why suffering is more tangible than resurrection

A blind man’s regard for the games and imperfections

A conclave of good deeds that I divide among them

Strength does not wait for the day to surrender

Like the snows of last year that are gone forever

I reach for the alchemist’s froth to comfort my pain

And drink away the sweet that has now soured

The pattern of my heart beats without rhythm

Questioning the reason unequivocal in its misery

So bound to love’s chivalry

That sleeps now without the knowledge of my true heart

~Shelly Koyen~ 2012 Copyright.

Winters Chill

Winters Chill

I know to fear and tread lightly

Like winters frost

Careful to step so as not to break the ice

The water so bitter cold beneath me

Numb never to awake or feel the same again

Until winters end

Your presence so warm and inviting

Like the suns sweet kiss

Radiant, luminous, blistering to the touch

I wait for you to draw me near

Stricken with fever it appears that I am insane

Until the leaves begin to change

Your passion, tumultuous in its wake

Like the winds that blow

You too and away from my heart

Shaking in its wrath I cry for you

Holding on to the trunks of memories

Until the rains come for me

I grow with every act of adversity

Like paper whites in spring

Who bloom despite the cruel conditions of winters chill

Radiant in the face of life’s duplicity

Until the seasons quiver in synchronicity

~SAK~ 2011 copyright.