25th Floor

Quickness

Many things are gone now

My anger has swelled

My curse has passed

My vision, now current 

Now I can see

Emotions they do pity

Far alone

They are present and forever lost

I move swiftly

Like the night sky 

Thundering abroad 

Into the moonlight

Crimson stars 

Beckon me tonight

My plight

One I can finally see in sight 

Entrapment

Only of my own doing

Wisdom

My only currency

Fissures 

Cascading within my mind

In dying 

Only to time 

Even now 

My words are hollow

if not 

Brought by anothers sorrow

Music

Transcending my escapes

Waste 

I wont today 

Friends

They've left me alone

Crushing

Even now 

Distance 

Dont take me farther 

Ive learned enough

I seek harbor

Cruising

In the midst of darkness

My soul shines bright 

Forever tonight 

My words I see are bleak

Reposed against 

Campaigns 

I've already seen 

But friendship

How I wish upon thee

My greatest curse

My sole enemy 

Days

My Days 

My days oh how they shine 

ever bright like the edge 

of a katana

Oh my mind how it burns 

as if 

under eternal rain

How my breath whispers 

secrets to the world

underneath 

And my feet 

How they yearn to be freed
beneath me

but my heart 

oh my heart ....

how can it be?

My strong heart it beats 

like the sine of a wave

ever crashing

How my wisdom 

Silences and constructs 

under mercy

But most of all

Oh how my ambition

How it greets me

It greets me like my love

The Sun 

Blinding my senses 

Bringing me tears 

Unbridled 

Whisking me away under a bath of warmth 

Transporting me to a heaven

That I only wish to bring upon this world

Nights

Nigh

Birds fly by

in this forsaken land 

ive grown to trust 

A light shimmers 

under a moon

I once knew

For the faces 

that pass by in drovels

 are deserted

And unknown

My body a gift 

my mind 

a martyr 

A charter 

Higher art 

I sought farther

then my father

but lower

than my brother 

my friend 

lost in this foreign land

Whose life is forsaken

to be taken

and dismissed

While I live in infamy

And walk away

in treachery

Or her 

the little girl 

standing at the little house on the mountain 

Her pale blue eyes

Igniting me away

Like a roaring engine

So how am I forgotten? 

How am I truly forsaken? 

When I have a hopes

To have my voice ring and cry

my words shake and thunder

to be brought asunder

Is nigh impossible. 

Lai Lai Hei

Lady Astrid 

Under the sunset she rides to glory

Alongside her brothers ready to fight 

Today may she die and live on in story 

Maiden and mistress with a heart of a knight

Lady Astrid whose blood red hair flows

She rides into battle, unafraid of death

Warriors would die to protect her soul

Starchild of Thor she fights to the last breath

Sea singer, seas singer turn us the tide

Wind speaker, wind speaker bless us this day

Legions follow to death, their warrior bride

They charge to the enemy, into the fray

And they sing with whole hearts Lai Lai Hei

And the Queen too, she sings Lai Lai Hei 

Heat

Miami

Slick white

in the early bright

Dark glass

with a little sass

Fun man

across the open land

Colorful nights 

filled with fleshy sights

Bad thoughts

smoking hot broads

Strong talk

Rough 'em on the walk

Ill conceived 

Hanging yellow weave

No need

to take it seriously

Draping palm trees

Golden smooth knees

Table full of chips

Thats another sip

Full house

A night without my spouse 

Daylight breaks

Life without disgrace 

Queen

Queen of the Desert

Across great landscapes we ride

towards a city lost in time

Through winds of torment

and seas of sand

You are still by my side

The scorching sun disciplines me

But by the camels hump 

I carry on 

And I will not subside

In our wake there lies

Treacherous lands

And cruel men

But for you, I will never rend

Mysterious woman 

You were once mine

Like a mirage

A figment lost to my dreams

My tired mind never forgot

And my pen

Ascribed your love into my heart

For time took you from me

But your spirit was never gone

For now we ride together

Through blistering heat

I see you now

Smiling back at me

Only the desert can contest

The fire that burns within my chest

And the deathly cold

I feel on these lonely nights

But I will never lose sight

Of the long lost city

For I know you await me there

My long, lost

Desert Queen 

Axes

Warm Winters

Its about that time again

when the winter coats

And my winters coat

goes on

I step out in the early morning
at the peak of dawn
The sting of the cold frost
comforting me

I trudge forward
crunching the frozen grass underfoot
Gripping my ax
Yonder into the sleeping forest

I inspect the fallen trees
looking for that special one
The one I know best
the one I will carry home

I find it right there
where its always been
And place my boot on it
and arch my back

I swing and I sing to it
the lullaby echoing through the trees
Melting the frost
and waking the deer

I collect the logs in one hand
and pace my way back home
to put them in the garage

I open the door to the familiar
Warmth that stings my face
And sitting at the table waiting for me
is a warm cup of cocoa
Still smoking