Jeff's Poetry

a lie, find a cover up a distraction, see a pain complacency, simply air with wind rushing past. a friendly gesture, a want

oh lord, grant me peace for i have changed. i do knoweth my transgressions for it is most repulsive - *inwardly grins*

and why not when the hammer breaks ice already thin - and skin is too much, flawless, blemished with a

lilith asked val, who art thou? with old language just because. something lingering, something reminding a memory refusing to go away.

peel the surface, find the core hide a rotten stinky toe! cover a skin with more fine satin, a mirror reflects only near perfection.

what a beacon shineth bright! with fledging wings beating tirelessly with holes in the heart wanting to be not in pain. an ache that lingers till the dust

halt! the toll booth requires an extraction of a piece of heart - emotions gone awry, like a roller coaster this one is downhill. grin away till the uphill looks too long to battle. halt. screech away, with burning tires not wanting

evoke a memory, invoke a spirit and a light comes alive, a temple is built! how brittle that memory, how deceptive a temple when all it takes to empty out a journey lived, when all it takes to deconsecrate a higher power, to have placeholders plastered on fire.

how they live on, these whispering voices that don't belong to the dead. the living side step rocky paths with looming shadows, never catching the tint.

i took one bite that - i bit my tongue hard. with awareness spiking when a shark's fin rises above water. oh no, not now but -