Oculus

Flooded with what we steal from eternity our Chambers are Gilded with the imaginings of victories and wisdom.

Yet all is illusion, not one atom is prisoner to man. For all men are bound by the fractured crust of expanding fusion, every cell entropic chaos.

Still, we record our various journeys as if they matter, we lie and deal and love and die for what is meaningless.

The truth burns holes in our mortal canvas and we perish to dust, to rise some other day beneath a weeping Oculus

Splinters

Now all the best things are broken

and the bough is splintered 

Our hearts are healing they’re no longer open

once sacred vows rescinded

We cover our scars with new found love

the bitterness becomes the feast

When those we loved we hideaway

it’s they who suffer least