Soma

Kiss me with your cruel lips

The taste of sin and sea.

Give me joy in tainted breath

With marked dishonesty.

For who could care, for one's self

Ever more than I?

Taste this indulgent selfish thought

Forsake this pain for pride.

Soma sweet, hades greets you

In a candy coated shell.

Chemical joy, deftly employed

By every hound of Hell.

Drug into the depths of passion

Every man will quickly drown

Beast and harlots soon to follow

Every one shall cast their crown.

Electric Soul

Spirit, sizzle - neon soul

Electric - 1 believe.

Blinking, pulsing - ripe in blight

It burns what it receives.

Ignite this creaking, wooden heart

Its tinder organ beat

Then I'll mind - electric kind

This splintered, crackling part.

0ne for love, zero the rest;

Digital blood 4 binary veins.

No amount - my programmed 10ve

Could ever remove these stains.

Neon spirit quicken

as this earthen heart breaks down.

Electric soul, can you extol

& merit as you're renowned?

When Weary

Retire
Tired fool
What dark spirit hides inside of you
What weary soul lurks the corridors of your heart
In search of food, in search of truth
Return to the love 

Of your youth
Return

Rest
Rest, exhausted bones
Why persist in falling on your own
Stumble to your knees and find you're right at home
Remember your prodigal place
Rejoice at your Father's face
Rejoice

Sleep

Child, beloved sleep

When will you lay your burdens down to

Drink once and for all from these waters deep

Put down your earthly strife

Taste the bread of life

Taste

For Julie

Life will stand the test of time.
Though you have passed
On to your children
Both word and flesh,
Memory and bone.
You do not live on through them alone.

Your kindness.
Your kindness is how I will remember you.
A motherly embrace,
and the lines of your face, in smile
though not traced on my own...
Your kindness,
I am thankful to have known.