evil-eyed Jack o’ lantern
grimaces in the dark~
helplessly perturbed pumpkin
Grimace is Death's Smile
Last stage of death's calling card; pain.
Why make it any easier than it must be?
Atonement in exchange for your agreement
for time on earth and the pleasures we see.
Some of us drink deeply from the well
and suck the marrow from the offered feast.
Other's are timid and fast for their lives
hoping sacrifice will quell imagined beast.
Chasing shadows
In summer meadows
Lingering by the wayside
Watching memories of you die
Fighting worry
Fending off doubt
Love becomes blurry
Feelings turned inside out
You wrote me love letters
Full of empty promises
When my heart thinks of you
It grimaces
I cried over you a hundred years
Or at least it seems
My world ended
When you said goodbye
A piece of me died
When you lied
And said you still loved me
Inquiring minds want to know
Why you stole the heart
Of a never ending love?
Many friends that I have are troubled at times
Giving them problems creating their rhymes
I wish there was something that I could do
For them I will pray and send my thoughts, true.
They go on their lives with burdens, weighted
Regretting their days, some even hated
I wish I could reach them, give them my hands
For now, words are arms, reaching ‘cross lands.
I send thoughts to them all that need loving friends
I hope that their miseries soon come to an end
May hearts open wide as a smile on their face
My wish for them all, their grimace, replace.
In such agreement
With all that is being said
Standing up in awe
Rocking side to side
With folded arms, shriveled nose
Squinted eyes, spiked shouts
Downward lips poked out
With wrinkled brow and clinched fists
Arms start rotating
Rolling, beating air
Shifting foot to foot ready
To launch in the deep
The speaker speaks on
Overexaggerated
With vi'lent fervor
Still with that grimace
Clapping hands, shaking the head
Nodding with more shouts
Now out the fifth row
A trot turns into a sprint
Til breathless with tears
Arms raised, surrender
Jumping sporadically
In freedom of soul
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