Submitted by joshua mertz on March 14, 2014
I wish I had done better
I wish I had gotten more love
For I had much to give
I wish I had fit in better
Wish that I had been handsome
Blonde, confident to the point
Of not caring
I wish to be burned
This empty house reduced to ashes
After I have moved on
I wish to go quietly
I wish for this tired soul
A deep and dreamless
Darkness
Submitted by joshua mertz on November 18, 2013
Night, rain
Old elements
An elder darkness crawls
Through the trees
Old trees in our blood
In our genes, in our dream
A waking dream
Of night and rain
Submitted by joshua mertz on November 6, 2013
Feet of stone, eyes of sky
Heart, veins and liver
Of trouble
Brow the highway
Machine, any machine,
The hands
The river that runs beside the road
Over stone and under sky
The dream of forever
Submitted by joshua mertz on October 25, 2013
The way the light falls across skin
And the trees
Black against the bright darkness
of the night sky
Time as a perception of breath
Limits and infinities one and the same
Then the moment passes
And the magic collapses
And all that is left
Is TV and the bills
Submitted by joshua mertz on October 22, 2013
I danced last night
The music came
And I could not stop it flowing through me
A ribbon in the wind
Fluid, unthinking, open, alone
The soul of water
And night
I danced until I ran out
Of music I loved
The music stopped
But the love continued
I danced last night
And there was no one there
Not even me
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