17 QUESTIONS

Where is my poetry?
Being felt

Where are my songs?
Being cried

Where is my Love?
Flowing freely

Where are my rhymes?
Dancing

Where is my hope?
Everyhwere

What is my truth?
God

What is my choice?
This

When is my time?
Now



ANNEX (inversion)



Where is my junkie?
Cradled in the arms of God

Where are my drugs?
Gone

What are my cravings?
Discipline enhancers

How is my addiction?
Tired

And my resentment?
Abandoned

My fear?
Disengaged

Where is the danger?
Unenvisioned

And what of the predator?
Dead

And the victim?
Well, she was in my head,
but has been evicted.

The time of harm inflicted has passed,
the infected mass removed
afflicted thoughts, improved
Relieved, I grieve through the difference,
and kiss the joyful, crying eyes of my Essence
who smiles and sings as any freshly freed prisoner would.

No More Monkeys (thumping on my head)

God's on my back,
All ways with the Light...
Grandmothers say
'Unscrew your thinking cap
lighten that head up,
unenvision the shitstack
sights up sugar pup'

Frightened of heart,
the hardest part of humanity,
is the shear insanity of a foe
so false as fear,
I'm feeling nearer to it
than love, and hardly here.

Oh, but I see a new Me over there,
big frizzy hair, and not a care in the world,
I'm talking to a little girl
I whirl her thru the air,
she wraps around me,
surrounds me with her youth,
and child's truth....
re-mind-ing me that One
wishes us to know fun
and laughter...
I'm dusting off
and shining up my magic staff,
enforcing Love's law
in this life of ever-awe,
soberly ever after~

Starvation (salvation)

My sweet, sick love is bound
thru strangling red wire nets
reach swollen diamonds of tearing flesh
writhing quaking
she eats her lips to mute the hunger
shaking, seething
ravenous prisoner of mine
I have not fed her for days
I have nothing for her anymore
She won't survive much longer

Wailing rabid fell beast
musters remnants of wrath
large creamy jagged teeth and nails
she charges at me
set for a swift kill
to avenge my betrayal

Her strength is near my own
yet not,
starvation stifles pain's inertia
no lies to suck
no drug to push her into blinding
I will her into light
dissolve her legacy of horror
and starve her back to love
my sick and only ever-friend
To her I sing 'this is the end.'