Consider your arsenal

Consider your arsenal

When you interact

Others don’t know your experience

When you cut them down with an axe

As a child I was lonely

Not because no one was there

But because my father and mother

Had other things to think about and care

I had no brothers and sisters

I didn’t even have any friends

No pets were around either

Just two very loving grandparents

Where do we get these weapons?

From emotions burned into our soul

The violence of silence seers

And love scars you until you are old

If you found companionship in books

You might wield the ability of a wordsmith

Consider your arsenal my friend

Because your abilities aren’t always gifts

Twin Flames

Iridescent columns of light reach through the window

As the inferno in the sky retires to the other side of the earth

I contemplate my surroundings and the company I keep

As the relationship of pen and paper give a poetic birth

You cannot write about the twin flame concept

My head warns as the ideas ignite like a nebula in space

The truth is that too many people could get hurt

If you open up about the memories you wish you could erase

She was a demon and angel wrapped into a hard candy shell

I spent too much time beside her and she broke me

The stories have been locked away in a safe in my head

I wish I could throw deep down a thousand foot well

I have to write about this, I know it might hurt you

I put myself back together after years of making mistakes

The seeming eternity I spent with the fire that burned me

Haunts my dreams still and some nights it keeps me awake

But it taught me a lesson I could never have learned

That if you take two candles and soak them with gasoline

They burn so hot that there is no wax left to contain them

The light that they once emitted is now completely unseen

It’s a funny thing though, some of us just linger on

And some of us disappear from this plain of existence

I am just glad someone taught me how to make fire

So I can start over and relight my candle with it

Paradox

You woke up this morning early

To get a head start on the day

Maybe to stock up some money

So, you have something hidden away

You put in the hours

You’re dedicated to your work

You tell yourself with enough money

I can finally be free

But in the meantime, I am tired

And suffering,

Do I have to wait for retirement

So, I can finally have time for me?

Your freedom isn’t really

If all it does is bind you

Even pure light is darkness

If all it does is blind you

Memories handcuff too

When all they do is remind you

That everything is a paradox

And the paradox will always find you