The Storm Within

I had a dream last night
I stood beneath an ominous sky
Heavens threatened with their light sabres
Hurricane winds let out of their chambers
Raking up the countryside dust
Razing down the countryside huts
Blowing debris into my face
Baring trees off of leaves into the haze
Hail beating on my head
Had to get out before I was dead
"Run, hide away from the storm"
"Really? Is that what I am running from?"
'Cos it follows me whereever I go
Can't be hidden from or be let go.

I realized it was all inside
I woke up to a clear starry night.

The Fog

Advancing through the woods
ominous signs on waters
Platoons behind smoke screens
the fog creeps in.

No pockets of darkness
Only a softening glow
Halos on heavens
Homogenizing view.

Displaced the ether
its thickening the air,
A warm fall of mercury
Saturating the senses

There is no far
Only close and closer,
Nevermind What wriggles underneath
There are ghosts walking past

Its a call of the wild
for adventurer and predator
daring them to venture deep
and push horizons ahead.

Self Annihilation

I dont know why I am headed this way,
But I know the destination,
Don't question my ways
I will tread - the path of self annihilation

Obstacles try to block my senses
and tend to confuse my compass
The truth of my efforts will melt
the glaciers that i cant bypass

There is darkness to blind me
and fog to haze my view
But when the sun will be out
It will all condense as dew

They warned that I needed better tools
to cut tunnels through the rocks
And proper planning
to walk around what still blocks

But my spirit will be true
and my endeavors always as pure
I will have to scale these climbs
For there's no other way, I am sure

My destiny may have me swept away
by the avalanches from the destination
But, I refuse to be buried under
the fear of self annihilation.

Fallen Son

Rise o mother
and embrace
your fallen son
with your warmth
dissipate him
in gases and ashes
to nurture those again
who he served
and protected -
you and your progeny

From the insurgents
run astray - your own
making the safe lap
a battlefield
where your children
can no longer sleep
dont know who to trust
or how to separate
the malign from benign
living on the same bloodline

Still he
and others like him
shielding the rest
forming your skin
taking gashes
and burns
healing again
covering your bleeding wounds
and getting stabbed in the back
from the danger within

Now as the priest is
saying his last rites
And the commander
saluting him, standing tall
women comforting
his wailing widow
you shamelessly
train in your womb
many more sons
ready to fall.

My Eternal Bride

Clad in red,
redder than a red rose,
redder than even the blood in my viens,
she walks up to me-
my eternal bride.

She looks up.
Her eyelashes uncover,
the deepest of eyes - deep with apprehension,
she looks up to me-
my eternal bride.

She smiles.
And so do I.
Its too good to be true,
or am i dreaming
my eternal bride?

She sits beside me.
She has always stood by my side,
It is easy to hold on to a fixture,
she's been take for granted-
my eternal bride.

She talks to me,
and she says nothing.
She doesn't have to, when her eyes did.
And she is unanswerable-
my eternal bride.

My end is near.
I might go to heaven.
But it still won't be the same without you.
And I will miss you there,
my eternal bride.

So I kiss her
lips so delicate and fresh.
And the world around us keeps ticking,
but the time is frozen
my eternal bride.

Now we part.
But we shall meet again
like the distributaries in the ocean.
Eternity is the rendezvous-
my eternal bride.