Excerpts from Selected Poems

Perhaps it's meant to be

I feel as though I'm trapped at times

A bird caught up inside the thicket

Of branches in winter's solitary trees

No leaves

They leave the bare arms crossing one another

So many different paths to choose

Which one to fly upon

I know not how to move

If only I could close my eyes, breathe in this light of sight inside my spirit, 

Trust this divine flight

The path will come with scars but I will make it through

For fate brings even the biggest of fools

To the most beautifulest of sun's rise

It finds me in moments when i brace myself

trying to be strong

believing i can be

perhaps it hears my breath of doubt

the silent exhale that slips

my lips

pounces upon the weakness

I attempt to mollify

failing miserably

in my endeavors

to protect this vulnerability I contain

I break my chains

become undone

and gnarl the delicate colors

whose hues I tried

so feverishly to stay within

I casted scriptures into the positions of stars in the night sky

Tossed coins of gold one by one into oceanic puddles that rained droplets to mouths that were dry

Disattaching my spirit from all around me so that ropes could not bind me 

But rather be affected

Affected by this change that was created when I stepped off into the vast Universe

The holiest source pours from rains that eyes can only see once color coded streams of paint mesh into one another

So are you my brother?

Are you my sister?

I cannot tell now that everything looks the same

But that is when you see the truth

The truth

Breathe in and exhale deep

I float on top of drum beats

Ba-dum, Ba-dum, Ba-dum…

Djembes sound my royal entrance

As I ascend past levels of mind creations

Mixing, intertwining emotions paint my world a color unnamed

Unseen by optics and retinas

Amalgamations of sensations flavor my palette

Like the taste of 

Souls building triadically

I hear treble clefs as they break through the outer walls

Of my life’s plasmatic substances

Bringing the waves of the ocean out from within 

The waters of my physical makeup

And I flow

Leaving traces of a moment’s peace

A moment of peace

For this moment, I am

Peace

Spatially intoxicated with too many occupants

I search my inner mind

For the peace and meditation

To bring me back to a balanced medium

Still I know the need for change exists

Although occurring at every angle - some say ...

--Still my eyes can't perceive it,

So I move in lateral motilities

With third Eye wide open

To opportunities

That may vertically lift me

Out of the X and Y hemispheres

In Positive Perceptions

Of this blessed Life that was given to me

And Rationality be strewn about

Like Dust

Among the walls

Around the corners

Above the lights

Beneath the rugs ...

And I'm too tired to clean up

So I live in a clutter of emotions

And breathe easy

Knowing that from discord comes perfect harmony

So from chaos

So shall order then ensue