Old Poems From My Old Site

Determinedly I travel,
Climbing towards the heavens.
Dare I reach the stars?
While I know I cannot touch them
I would rather be burned
Then deny myself the effort.

The siren call of their brilliance
Can cause the most logical of minds
To go astray
And cast
Their thoughts
To the wind.
Their white-hot passion
Holds a constant reminder
Deep in their tantalizing song-


Love hurts even the strongest
But the pleasure is worth the pain.

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Come with me and prowl the night
We'll make the innocent cower in fright
Let's stalk the streets without a care
Ignore those who tremble, point and stare

We'll loudly bay to the full-lit moon
Hunt for our meals in the foggy gloom.
Eat our fill, and when we're done,
We'll scare the others just for fun.

And when our wonderlust is sated
Our passion filled, our needs abated,
We'll start the path to the long way home
Til we once more feel the need to roam.

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Let's run away in the night
For a week-long romantic tryst
We'll survive on passion and love
Until the world we start to miss.

Let's run away in the night
For a seaside rendezvous.
We'll spend a month as tourists
Reinventing me and you.

Let's run away in the night
For a year-long hideaway.
Work at dive bars and gas stops
Until we can't wait to leave the fray.

Let's run away in the night
Spend our life in old Bombay.
Let's change our names and forget our past
While we we get happy, old and gray.

Let's run away in the night.

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Knights fight for honor and glory
Slaves search for a way to be free
Young wizards discover great magic
And mermaids become foam in the sea

Some tell of struggle and misery
Others boast of triumphs and fame
Liars, cheaters, lovers and millionaires
All try to cash in on their name.

Present day vampires meet futuristic elves
Aliens live among cavemen and kings
Men can climb walls and shoot lasers
Women fight dragons and grow wings

The future, the past, the present collide
The truths and falsehoods together all blend
Magical though these worlds may all be
They are only ours on a lend.


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Once I thought I knew everything
The right gestures to make and songs to sing
I was basking in joy, in life I was bold
Did whatever I pleased, ignored all I'd been told.
Blinded by my ego, I simply failed to see
How fast my time was devoured by the ever hungry Kali.

No matter how greatly I plea or I beg
She refuses to stop til her needs are all fed.
I curse myself for being so blindsided and dumb
In fear for the future, I now lay awake numb
If only I used used wisely the days of my youth
Instead of wasting them in acts both odd and uncouth.

I know I cannot laze around and reminisce
Focusing on options lost and opportunities missed
Instead I should look at what now remains
And all of the joys that my life still retains
The future must be seen as one most opportune
Lest negativity cause my remaining days end too soon.