Melatonin High
Partially complete
Peacefully tired
Prepared to sleep
Convinced of life
Coming together
Cunningly perfect
Astonished by nature
Aware of dark circles
Awaiting next steps
Sleep doesn’t come
Staying put in bed
Sweet dreams far away
Only silence prevails
Oneness with it all
Obliterate any thought
Nature moves
Night has fallen
Never mind my rest
Indigo colored sky
Inhale shallow breath
Into the night
Falling
Flying
Free!
Melatonin high
Alphabet of Symbols
Having said nothing
Appeared invisible
Comfort zone of a shell
Turtle in her tiny home
Study and research
Get a Nobel Prize
Heroes of today
Lost in past memories
Dust off the pollen
From the dirty veil
Vent out the brain
Crunch the letters
Empty like O
Crossed like X
Straight like I
Hooked on J
Climb on H
And Y?
Because the turmoil
Water down my back
Heart beats solid line
Freshly poured vacuum
Product of society
Packaged in cling film
Slow to change
Solid in roots
Seeds spread on toast
Down the throat
Sprouted new ideas
Inside the mind
Greater collective
Broken to pieces
Glued to the past
Waiting for a heroin
With patience
Shot of clarity
In vain
Flying past
Lie still or move
Riddled
As we march
Into the unpredictable
The well known ‘me’
With the insecure ‘I’
The rumbling of thoughts
Swooshing through my brain
Sparks of thunderbolts
Flashes of lightning
Microscopic greatness
On a Petri dish
Slush of fat cells
Moving through space
Invisible chains
Holding my reality
World full of sanitation
Yet without sanity
Training my perception
To look at the beauty
With grace and awe
Full of expectation
An order in an action
Stay with me
Hold me tight
We are meant to be
Have a free will
Only sign here
Illusions vanished
What came after
The time of honeymoon
Love and peace
Esteemed architects
Burning bridges
Dry land of bare souls
Living in harmony
Truth on a plate
Masking tape fell off
Wrinkled soul
Shivers exposed in the heat
Calling no number
Breaking silence
Deep within
Found the Self
Lost in the heat of night
Day full of promise
Best of times to be had
Yet to dream big
Shadows of the I
Creeping up on my Self
Exposed
Blended into wholeness
Let me preface this poem so you know how it came about. My thoughts after a few recent conversations with a few friends regarding people they knew who took their life or attempted a suicide.
In Death’s Face
So you thought I’m tired
Of living the life as requested
When the darkness opened the door
And the breeze of freedom swept me in
Silence upon the noisy chatter
Blind follower of a notion
That here is only suffering
Pain and emotions of void
The other side of heaven
Welcomes by burning a fire
Ready for my bones
Popping corn and I scream
Soon to be quiet and peaceful
In Vitro rebirth
Intestine on the outside
Blood and cells in vain
Ever too late for my own party?
Don’t mind my dreams
Wasted opportunities
To live and die as planned
Never accepted by me
Now what!
My vision failed me
So you saved me
I’m still here
Forcing another breath
Under performance
Life in slow motion
Bile of truth
Seeping out
Sleeping angrily
Time out
Alive in death’s laughing face
