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.

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.