When I Breathe

  Scaling broken souls to reach the fiat carrot Matrix zombies echo rhetoric of parrots Lifeless heart and lung long decayed Ashes to ashes and dust to dust repaid Dry and dusty bones litter the field The darkness of the universe is revealed But a spark in the mind may travel far Command chest thumps…

What I Be

  I will be the son, of fathers good and bad. I will be the dad, someone never had. I will be the laborer, in factories big and small. I will climb and fall, and mortar my own wall.   I will be the madman, in a suit of eccentricity. Drowning in the publicity, only…

Maverick

The emperor has no clothes, throwing rocks from his glass house. Atop his ivory towers, watching each quiet church mouse. Oppressing the subjects with his greedy dictates of self-serving proclamations for power. Thieving slight of hand from behind his holy veil; sanctimonious stench, sheep-skinned wolf, thorny dying flower. The royal lighthouse goes dim, but the…

The Beginning

by Anne Kapp Questions aren’t as plaguing when you know the answer is your choice. Free will reveals the unfolding of what each of us do with our voice. Times are changing, just as always they have been. Outside of you chaos rages – the beginning of peace begins within. From institutionalized dreams awake, Forgetting…