And Sadness Reigns

And sadness reigns Though never ordained from the simple truth Billowing joy Subverting bliss Standards too ephemeral To lobby the naked wishes we hold Desperately close To our heart And sadness reigns Our heart once whole Sputter and mends And beats eternally No matter the blood No blood the matter It seeks, filters and dispenses joy From mechanoly cells Pleading for regeneration The familiar beg towards Indiscriminate joys Mean nothing but To be left alone Crystallized, for exhibition to the many Everyone partake Seek a morsel for Yourself Because it's fleeting And sadness reigns Through our ears, Acoustic lies flutter Sincerely, vacant waves Of love melodic, It does its job, Tainting sweetly our reality While souls huddle close For a deeper view Our here and now Climbs, repels From sentimental summits Vistas of pretty dreams Fragrant, lauding over The stench whispering Towards the barren valley below Then back to us Hearing, humming Exhuming Chemical reactions Singed By recall Broken or of whole The music Causing joy to Drop by when we need it the most And sadness reigns We're startled, As focus brings The world into Rarefied view Intensive stare, Colliding our senses Interpreting their meanings Elastic snowballs Thundering into Psychotic waves of Lustful avalanches that burn the retinas With joy, inquisition, Indelible glances Hung up neatly To wear when Dreams demand them, And there are peeks, Boisterous looks That tease your mind And theirs Visionary tales Gross of dischord And malfunction, Though they serve As guests, Glee in a box, Nibble, taste Devour, done And sadness reigns Because you and I All before us And those to follow And yet to come Arrive, depart through Unmarked swiveled doors Betwixt adjoining suites Cemented Endlessly By the mundane we require The horrific which we Bring and run across The zeal we grab For ourselves and others The aggression we Wage and deflect The resignation we extract And authorize And somehow As sadness reigns We defect And elect To be ruled By something else. (1/27/05)