Torrential downpour

I've neglected this blog for much too long and it's time to return. Life has been one grand journey after another these past six months. I've been lower than I've ever been before. I've been in the darkest place I've ever been and now....now...I emerged and changed entity. Changed in a way that I have become myself again. Strange how that happens, but I am so much the better for it. I've started writing again, also. I hope you enjoy.



eerie


there is smoke in the air-

it's thick and tangible

and it drops slowly down upon everything

leaving it all blurred in a gray dust



it's a eerie kind of beauty that i see

the sky is full of color...

slashes of magenta, orange and red

as light fights to reach the ground



Amazed...yes, that's what I am,

at how destruction can be so glorious-

renewing...so beautifully painful

and so painfully beautiful



Eerie

that's what it is

as I watch the day

dip erotically into night


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MADNESS OF MIDNIGHT


I made it home

just before sunset

and the smell of tangerines

and roses hit my senses.



It felt good to run...

just run to no place,

or no one,

in particular



Restless energy,

yes, that's what it was

and it subsided,

but only a bit



I was happily exhausted

as the heat

stole my breath and pushed

me to the pillows on the bed



until the madness of midnight came

and stole my rest away

an traded them for tear stains

on the pillowcase