Twilight Road

 

 

Conversations with my inner self

Monologue with the soul

Riding on twilight road 

Second thoughts do creep

Reality a harsh master

Am I ready for tomorrow's dawn

 

Mortality rings true

A lifestyle an identity

Coming to halt

At the end of this road

The last load

Tinged with fear

Will I wake at sunrise

Not knowing who I am

 

 

I Left I Returned

When I left

You sat upon the floor

Impish smile

As you thumped upon

That toy piano

Making confusing noise

With childish joy

When I returned

I found you perched

 Upon a piano bench

Beside Grandma

Eyes intently watching

As she played

When I left

You played

An awkward rendition

Of "Let it Be"

With unbounded glee

So I traveled

With a smile

When I returned

You sat upon a  high school stage

A young lady

Playing show tunes

Upon those ivory keys

While I cried tears

Of pride and regret

That I had missed so much

Between I left and I returned

"I was on the road for most of my child's young life which haunts me to a certain extent to this day"

Pride's Tomb

Words reached out

Creating a Spring

Blossoming

Leading to a summer

Of lust and love

But our sins

Bore fruit on Autumn winds

Until we crumbled

Upon the steps

Of pride's tomb

Yesterday's Bones

 Yesterday's bones

Always there

Weaved into my soul

Carried with care 

Sometimes a little heavy

But they are mine after all

Shaped by my eyes

My mind and my heart

I collected them  

Without knowing

As I traveled by night



"as much as I tried I couldn't stay within 140 characters of the prompt for twitter poetry on http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca. I am to long winded" :)

Odin

 You appear

On a schedule that is your own

Days weeks pass 

Then I will sense you

You might prance regally

Along the shore line

Or magically reveal yourself

At forest edge

Sitting majestically

With a knowing look

There will be conversation

Between my eyes and yours

We are similar in some ways

Age and experience

Weighs heavy on our souls

Lone wanderers we are

I have marked my land

As you marked yours

Each giving respect grown over time

We have accepted each other

A peace treaty of sorts

A stretch, a yawn

A nod of the head

You will be gone

Charging me no tarriff

A grace I return

Yesterday's struggles

Become the Blues of today

Notes of the soul

Carried through time

On ageless strings of the heart

With voices

Riding the wind

Temptation

Born to wander

Along the edges

Knowing deep inside

One day your shadow

Will spring from fate's door

To lay at the boundary

Of my canopy of trust

Those questions

Lightly tapping on my soul

Answers rustling in the wind