Raven

The blacks eyes stare
Living breathing stone
Feathered gargoyle
Frozen messenger
Spirit walker from the depths
Bloated on the festering spoils
Waiting for preordained fate
Democratic imperialism
Shaken not stirred
Vodka puttin his mark on borders
Redrawing the lines
Out of the chaos
Fluttering Flags and old imperial songs
Obama May care
Making it rain
Leaded waste land
The raven stares
Black feathers shine
Women and children cry
Political cross fire
Young men die
Parasites feast on the spoils

Calm in the Chaos

All we have is now
Watching your soul
Flow with the water
Calm as a waterfall
turbulent as a hurricane
Hopeless as pebble of sand
lost In a raging river
Life will change you
The face you see in the mirror
Reflection of all that anguish
Happiest is short lived
Gone before you realized
Trust a weird thing
All we have is now
Calmness in the chaos
Chains that bind us here
Rain drops drumming
The truth that blinds
Morose the pain
Fate has chosen a time and place
Passing it as the calendar slips away
To all the gods we made
In our own image
Laughing the night away
All we have is now

quid pro quo

Egregious tenure

Tenuous freedom

Fascism deceives

Communism controls

Results all the some

Big brothers virtual guarantee

Freedoms contractual obligations

Academic sterilization

Thought police frog steps criticizers out

First targets are opponents

Cleansed by fire

Books tossed on the flames

The formula of control

Those considered inferior uneducated

And malnutritioned

Breaching the civil contract

Egregious tenure

Tenuous freedom

Big brothers formulated strategy

Determine what they teach

Terminate opponents rigorously

Heinrich Heine’s poem destined to burn too

Sanitize the books

Imprison the inferior and dehumanize

Silence the deans’ quid pro quo

Engage in a free flow of ideas

When the morning comes

When the morning comes
You will be gone
Like the girl in that song
A dream the night before
A future that never was
Keeping my worlds apart
For some strange reason
You can't have tomorrow
Without yesterday
When the morning comes
You will be gone
Like the girl in that song
Beautifully packaged fun
Repeating the same mistakes
Too proud to say I was wrong
That dream that made no sense
The one I thought was wrong
Every night has a dawn
Waiting all day so I can see you again
Closing time on a night that never ends
All the things that happen today
I will tell you tonight
In my dreams
The ones a can't remember
But some how know you were in
Like that movie you wanted to live in 

Rhetoric

Rhetoric
Everything out those lips
Said with a narcissistic distain
Strategized manipulation amongst the lies
Propaganda sprinkled with a little truth
Just enough
The stare down dare
Cavalier whatever
Wanted to believe
Hope it was true
experience a hard lesson
Trust not so easily given
One use rule then tossed 

Dress Parade

Putin pushing the borders of extremes

The world slowly standing up

And pushing back

Protestors with Ak’s and rocket launchers

Bringing the helicopters down

Terrorists kidnapping all the girls

Scratching and screaming in front of a rusted tank

Sounding crazy saying god is great

He told me to sell them at market

The AK swinging back and forth

A king sending bombs down

Raining down on his people

A people who wanted a voice

Homs in a gas filled rage

The world slowly wondering why

Collecting the chemicals of death

Thinking it will make death cleaner

Russia clawing at bigger

With sticks and stones

Snipers with children in the cross hairs

Masked men carrying gas and bombs

All the while the puppet master laughs

The world lighting the fuses

The powder sits in the kegs

Soldiers cleaning their guns

And shining their boots

They’re about to go on dress parade

the voodoo hour

Showing up late for life

A digital romance gone cold

Playing reggae in my head

Total comfortable unknown

A song in the haze

Reminding me of you

Words coming back

From far away

In the white sand

The rhythm swaying

So naturally

Missing the opportunity

Hearing the music

Floating on the air

Reaching out calling

Uncomfortable unknown

Showing up late

For this appointment with fate

Reggae against the wall

Warm sand during the day

Cold during the voodoo hour