Confusion Carpe Diem Poems

("How to Hold Love", 2019, original oil)

Carpe Diem

This life 
Precious from conception
Right on through till death;
Each moment a chance to break on through
To the eye...

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WHEN

When life review is an unconscious calling,
It is closure that’s invisibly in the room  

When muddling in the mire of memories,
It is evolution that’s...

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Exhaustion has became the conclusion to these missing pieces to the puzzle. Often questioning one's emotional state of mind.
Are you mad? making statements I got...

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I met you there again in the quiet calm 
you appeared remorseful I must admit 
after the infamous terrors you inflicted 
the unpardonable manifested within...

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Our nation is on a precipice
A deadly virus has gone amiss
Now is the time for us to get right with God
So that this unsettling spirit...

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Fake smiles 
Drifting from homes to streets to share your strength with the weak 
Walking in shoes that aren't yours to claim you walked the...

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Today spits chicken parts true to the path
Losing ground confusion and rock and roll 
Whirlwind brain cells
God is watching 
No disappointing Him
All fears and mistakes...

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Forever hear the drums 

History be kind to the lives left behind to the ones left frozen forever lost in the fields
the battle cries fade...

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As we walked the warm air broke and swept over me like waves.
I puffed on a sweet cigar 
passing the seafood placed down by the...

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In her complete solitude, 
she was tired and bruised...

Contemplating in a darkroom,
she was sitting with a vodka
in her left hand 
and on the other is...

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The life i live i didnt choose or did I?
Every morning i say a prayer,a chant 
Is anyone listening? I lie down thinking
How to escape?...

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"Insomnia"

Well time to sleep, 
What is that?
What's sleep?
I feel like I'm fried,
Yet my eyes are always on you.

My problematic excuse is,
I need to get off...

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While transient clouds ripple in streaks 
Below a heap of perfumed blooms prances  ,
While fireflies wheel  through evening, mellow…
Just then, rainfall blows
Like a...

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My failures are rough but teach.
My errors, windows to truth.
Before discovery, I don’t hear the Greek,
“Eureka!” but “Huh…?” How uncouth!
Meeting a contradiction, I reach,
What the...

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SUBLIME

Sublime
I've been shedding snakeskin...
so blind
I've been destroying the noise
my worst enemy

Deconstructing my identity 
soaking shoulder deep
in oceans of humility 
feasting upon fruits of tranquility

breaking shackles...

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