Tights and a Cape

I have found the reality
In my duality
There are two mes
Figuring out how
To balance
Is like skipping along an anchor chain
I could flip a coin
Or quit writing in the first person
Bit by random bit
We (as in you and the ever present I)
Control only one aspect of time
The situation has mutated like the cells
In the third person
Where Nathan refers to Nathan as Nathan
My head throbs with what if's
Intangible dreams
Life and love are not like their
Literary counter parts
Nathans head throbs
As Superman saves you once again

Black Belt / Red Robe

My vapor trail
Spreads out across your vision
The fastest man alive
I live by the sword
And you came equipped
With all the right potions
All the right techniques
My heart screams bloody murder
Redrum
I bleed out emptiness
And feed on a small sun
To rise again
Blistering the country side
With the fury of your failures

L.A.B.

Thoughts of you are
Still sprinkled through my day
They leave me floored
With a mouth full of
Red clay
Barely able to speak
They leave my phone dead
My pen dry
I wish
Wish wish
For fairy tale endings
Blurred skies and spring
Breezes
Days
when a passing
Car doesn't speak of
Days
best forgotten
No matter how good they
Were

20th Century Sorcery

You read souls by the light
Of a smart phone screen
Maybe I'm too old to understand
Crystal balls seem more mystic
And you kept talking
Digging at flaws
And bones of past training grounds
Maybe you've let out a side that surprised you
Maybe there have been others now
I'm sure you got amnesia quick
And the dragon in my chest
Twists a little tighter with the
Thought
You read souls by artificial light
I fade to shadow as the candle
Flickers out

Looking for...

I was there when the walls fell
And the gates and Gods came unhinged
My powers over time and matter
Trump your science
And yet you soldier on
Or I guess that you do
The one person I can't find
In time's stream
Kissing other lips
maybe
All the laser beams and time machines
I've put on my shelf
Have proven worthless

Wishing in a well
That's all pennies are good for

Aristocracy

I worship the Sun
Like the ones before me
On the altar
I make my tribute
For you to poison
So my Sun is angry
You poison my well
So my son is touch and go
Flailing in the riptide
Life drowns me

Innocent

Pressure
Stress
Boiling over
Out of control
Brooding and majestic
Brillant in design
How do Gods deal
With sudden sadness
Stones from another shore
Cut patterns in summer wheat
In the blood
Passion
Desire

Bail

I am broken teeth
And blueprints
In a madman's workshop
Wires,gears
Waiting for a seed
To grow
I tear holes
In the fabric of reality
And poke my fingers
Into your dreams and
Doing so leaves scars
On both our souls

Little Dog in My Lap

Perfect
Like blue skies
On the fourth of July
I live in this universe
That is beyond amazing
We are born,thrust in to
This creation,this chaos
To make the best of it
And we exist and breathe
Love
And breathe
Tiberius shifts and sighs
The world sleeps at peace tonight

Computer

I am not a machine
That you can program
To spit out the answer
That you want
No
I am an independant
Living being
I love
And I am full of passion
Ready to be the valiant prince
Here to save the day
Who wants to be my princess?

Theraflu and Me

I'm lost in the waves
That float through the air
Voices and pictures of family
And friends and pets
I think information travels
Too fast
And we get it incomplete
Or wrong
False truths
We can't tell what's real
Or fake
"reality" is what we make it
Or what MTV makes it
Or NBC
I'd just rather throw my hands up
And place my hopes on Aliens
Kidnapping me and getting
Me
The fuck off this
Sinking ship

Hope at 4AM

I awake from a dream
A dream
A dream
And want that
One last night together
Before it's too late
Before I fade away
With the morning fog
A poltergeist
Only made of memory and vapor

Thursday : Cloudy with a Chance of Rain

There is a tornado
In my thoughts and
An earthquake in my chest
There are mothers whose
Greatest goal is to become their daughters
Or to put rocks in their pockets
And walk them out to sea
I seep pain from my ears
While you sleep with fishes and mermen
Like foes in a battle of wits
My logic leaves you reeling

Bedtime Stories

I am not scarred Severian
Fighting a giant Baldanders
In a mist filled castle
But some still call me
Torturer
And in some ways
I guess I cause pain
Though I don't mean
Harm or hurt
Just dreams of blackbirds
being an astronaut
And laughing in the snow

Bull In My Pasture

Show me again
How you do that trick
Where you make a question rise
From thin air
And force that answer
You so badly want
Out of me
A fiend made of smoke
Sneaking into my brain
A parasite eating my thoughts
And shitting out your own
Show me again that illusion
So I can sleep
Cause I know you are not real
And so does my dog

All the Time it Takes

New
Hands scrubbed
Typing on a pad
Clickclickclick
I can see
Forever and
Want to know
Why you won't do right
I have nestled
My head on the
Belly of a star
And heard it grumble
A sleeping dragon
In my sleep

Resturant Life

Am I a myth
Are there monsters
Living in me
Did you see the Devil
Here to do the Devils work
Was he hiding in my eyes
Was I smiling like he smiles
Some days the hours drag
And I can feel
Something wicked...
rising up
Wriggling its way toward space

Beanstalk

The words that spill
From you are
Stained red
And they mean
Less than nothing

And I am next to nothing
With pounding head
And freedom
And all my little traps
Meant to catch
A stumbling giant