I see you there
Laid out in neon lights
Moonlit shadows
In sharp contrast to your wonder

I watch you as you ponder
Gazing into star filled sky
Asking yourself
Why?

Destiny laughs at you
Trying to find the promises of tomorrow
Chuckles at the very thought
A joke

Your pain is mine
I wonder why
I guess
I think

But…
I can never know
I can never feel
Never understand

Can I?
Not I but you…
You are there
Wishing, hoping

Waiting for the answer
The answer to a thousand thousand questions
Questions that are
That were

Those that will be
Still
Even after death
Lost

Will we ever know?
Who knows?
He knows?
She does…

Not she but him
Not him but her
His light
Her shadow

Both cast in contrast
To the neon in your hair.

The sun has set upon the valley
Curtains of silky black descend
Stretching their long fingers abroad
Touching here and there

There and here with shadow
Light contained in velvet grip
Thrust beyond the horizon
Before the nations past

Past feeling
Over emotion
Cast among outcasts
In sorrows weeping

Sorrows weep
Subdued by moonlight
Reflections of the midnight star
Hung in distant sky

Distant skies
Calling here and there
There and here for justice
Peace

Peace
Sought in afflictions
Afflictions sought in agonizing breaths
Sobs caught in our throats

Our throats are raised in song
Crying out
Against hate
Against pain

Pain against us
Them
They
All of we

We of all
People
Living
Lives lost

Losing lives
As time slips
Falling into space
Spacing out

Out of space
Moving
Waltzing into life
Out of death

Out of death we find
Into life we search
Slipping out of time
Falling into space

Into space we roam
Trying all our lives
Searching all our souls
For the answer

The Answer
To the one question
That one confusion
All caught

Captured
In the moonlit sun.

Raindrops fall
As a storm arises overhead
Each landing upon your scarlet petals
Consuming the still sinking sunset

Each drop a shadow of light
A light of solemnity
Rays of gentle beauty
Gracing your velvet hands

You are a rare flower
Blooming in the still moonlight
A soft breeze rustling your leaves
Emerald apparel on a soft curve

Your lips
Curiously kept still
Winds prevailing not
Failing to move them

Listen though to the flowers around
Hear them speak their gentle words
Their insights and psalms
Prayers of pure poetry

They fall upon deaf ears
Carried away on torrential silence
Floating upon seaward clouds
Entangled in the sky

They rain upon your scarlet petals
Gently touch your velvet hands
Sink into your open mouth
Slowly drowning out the silence.

Time flies
Ignites fire.
Fire burns
Melts ice.
Ice drips
Water falls.

Falls like time
Igniting the very flames
That burn, melting our ice
Our crystalline forms of majesty
Dripping out our sorrows
Falling to the open sea.

Strung upon the empty clothesline,
Hope waits in the pale moonlight
Seeking to find
That day.
That night.
In the autumn shadows
Of the morning sun.

Memories murmur melodies
Notes falling as rose petals
Upon an open book

Each petal tracing the words
Once written
Once spoken aloud

Now silenced in the eternal wake of time
Sleeping
In the unending coma

Fragile rest
Shattered in the autumn sunrise
Bringing forth the end of dreams

The start
Of life.