Completely Connected

More information
less interaction
with that right in front of you.

Sat down for a moment
looked up after a minute
I seem to have lost more
than an hour or two.

Interrupted service
Lost connection
prompts questions of
Now what do I do?

Do you make life simpler
or more complicated?
Are we getting smarter or
merely sedated?

Laptop, tablet
desktop, phone
Completely connected
but still quite alone.

Laugh Alone

Did you stop to notice
you laugh alone?
Not the last to get the joke
just the only to find it funny.

Not everything is meant to be
a crisis of faith, a statement on
the state of things.

Don't say develop a thicker skin.
Don't say you need to learn to take it.

Funny is what you choose to make it
but I've always known;
It's not funny
if you laugh alone.

Burdens of The Day

Here I sit
Waiting
Waiting outside the shadows of dusk.
Waiting for someone to come let me in.

Here I wait
time and time again.
Here I wait
Knowing that eventually someone will arrive.

Here I remain
waiting on that elusive someone.
Here I remain
outside, alone
weighed down by the burdens of the day

Alone In The Dark

Who hasn't sat in the dark
Alone
Intently watching the shadows
of daylight's familiar things?

Who hasn't sat in the dark
Alone
Listening to the low hum
of electricity

Wondering
whose steps are those
outside my window

If you haven't sat in the dark
Alone
Then maybe you're lucky
Then again maybe you're not

Comfort comes in darkness.
Shadows conceal,
Imagination explores
Darkness can open doors

I sit in the dark
Naked, Wondering
Listening, Waiting
Alone

Come and Go

My Depression Moods

Are things that come and go

like laughing.

Laugh more

Cry less.

When you cry

Make it your best

When you're through

Consider this

These things I know

Come and go

like laughter.

Magic and Misery

live forever.

Thinking Queen

Alone with myself

Thinking many thoughts of you

Memories don’t fade.

Ask who you might be

The response I am the Queen.

How could you not know?

THE KEY TO THE DOOR

After the shadows, before the rain, between the heartbeats and thoughts of pain is a stillness known to none but a few who are blessed with the ability to feel the kiss of the old and new on their cheeks.

Music is the key to this forgotten place. Not just any music, soul searching, mind boggling, spine tingling rhythms won’t do. It must be a simple tune both pure and sweet. Bright and pretty dark or deep, whichever melody it plays, it’s the simplicity, which it conveys that keeps the key to the door in the mind of the one lost to us for a time.

When the music plays, a room unlocks and pours the deepest feelings in ones heart out with the hopes, dreams and fears of love and laughter life and tears. Once accomplishing this, the door will close, the shadows retreat and the rain starts to flow. It washes away all traces of woe and heart beats grow stronger as time starts to go.

The stillness now broken lets the world reappear. The mind has been opened gone are heartaches and fear. The cycle continues again and again until finally the music proceeds to win.

RINGING AND KNOCKING

I

Silent Rings

And Rusty boxes

Time ticks by

No knocks I hear.

Outside my window

Continued noises

Laughter, Lights

That’s all I hear.

II

Silent Rings

And rusty boxes

Bells not heard

And notes not writ

Time ticks on and on and on

Traffic hums

And pulses run

That’s all I know.

III

Where to go and what to do

When will I find someone who,

Will fill my ears with ringing and knocking

Stop the sound of the tick, tick, tocking.

Take me where the laughter is

Traffic STOP, when I am his.

Trapped by the troubles in my mind

Trapped by the troubles in my mind
Outside I often find
Others have their troubles too
I tell myself it's not just you.

Conversations overheard
Youngster's troubles different words
Same as mine at a different time
We all have issues they will find.

Trapped by the troubles in our mind.
Nothing's new just rearranged
Why must we be so estranged?
All this trouble, nothing's changed

ALONE

Alone in a room full of people

Alone in a strange new place

A small light is shining

A small light so bright

It glows and it glimmers to light up the sky.

That small light is me

Longing to be free

To feel in place for once and for all.

Alone is no longer the stronger of feelings

Alone no more in a crowd.

Now I am that light shining bright

That light that draws in a crowd.