Death's Rhythm

Death's Rhythm

Death beats a steady rhythm

Sounding loud within my chest

Starting at the time of conception

So strong and powerful

It counts down second by second

You try to really live your life

Doing things that make you happy

Finding the love that God gave you

No matter what you can do

No matter what you can say

You cannot plead your case

Death still beats a steady rhythm

All you can do is live for the moment

Ignore the steady pounding in your chest

Forget that time is short and precious

Live, love, enjoy what you are doing

Then when Death's rhythm stops

You can laugh in his face

Taunt him for eternity

Tell him that you lived a good life

That you have been happy

Tell him that you have made others happy

Then, as final words, tell him you are ready

You have no regrets

Then get your wings and enjoy eternity

Always remember that you lived

And that you had a good life

That is all you will ever need

Panther

Panther

Red eyes glow as you walk through the forest

You search in the darkness

Looking for an innocent creature

Claws sharpened as you wait

You know what they can do

You know just where to strike

The creature doesn't suspect

It is just living its day

You wait

You strike

The battle lasts a mere moment

The creature is now among the dead

Creatures you have killed during your life

You stand tall

Full of your latest conquest

And after all is said and done

You will live to fight another day

But only when your eyes glow red

Until then sleep in the forest you control

And the land will be at peace

Shadow Of Fear

Shadow Of Fear

It follows me where ever I go

Nipping at my heels

It torments my body

Tortures my soul

I know it hides in the light

Coming out in the night

The perfect disguise

I face it down but I know

I know that it knows me too well

It knows my weaknesses

It knows what the world is truly like

It knows my feelings toward life

The shadow of fear is immortal

Haunting one and then another

Hunting for the weakest of us all

Yet it doesn't kill

It watches as we lose our minds

Terrified of even ourselves

Even when we are suicidal just watches

Pushing just one step further

Not letting us turn away from the pain

It takes me to the limit and beyond

And it just laughs

My World

My World

Why do you want me to leave?

My comfort is the blackness

The demons claw at my feet

My ears echo the screams of a million souls

Fire is my bed at night

Sulfur is the smell of my garden

I never had a choice

My ideas scared you

Nightmares crept into your dreams

The thought of me scared you

Made you question your own reality

You drove me into Hell

Keeping me away from humanity

Keeping your existence safe from me

Saving the souls of your children

I am here watching you

Seeing everything you do

I will bide my time in my paradise

Burning with my thoughts simmering

When the time is right

Your faith shaken by questions and doubts

I will be there to take you by the hand

I will lead you into my world

You will see what the darkness offers

And your screams will join the others

I will just sit back and listen

You are in my world now!

The Aged Actress

The Aged Actress

She walks on stage

The people have all gone

The light have faded to black

Still she walks to center stage

Her eyes glisten in the light from the exit sign

Her looks have long since gone

Age has taken a bad toll on her

Yet, she remembers the days so long agao

She would take the stage

Singing and dancing

She owned the stage

To the audience she was their goddess

A beauty beyond what God could create

Now she stands before an empty house

No one wants to see her dance

No one wants to hear her sing

She is a has been no one cares about

Still she stands on the stage

And lives a life only in her memories

Memories that will soon fade

The star that she was flickers and dies

And she will be gone

Even from her own mind

I Am Human

I Am Human

My eyes shut for another night

Images flow across my eyes

Barely shadows they float by

Some grey clouds on the horizon

Birds fly by going nowhere

A stagnant lake lies before me

Not a single wave or ripple

The birds swoop and die before me

Dragons and demons tear the world apart

Leaving me in a world of complete dark

Screams of pain and terror

They fill the early moments of sleep

Somewhere pleasure comes from the suffering

I want to open my eyes

The terror holds them shut

Not allowing me a chance to escape

I can feel them tearing into my mind

I don't care what they do me

The world is one of my design

Scary and deadly to others

It is my home

It is where I choose to be

Alone and fighting an unseen enemy

Yet, knowing that I am immortal

I am a god in my world

The all powerful god of the underworld

I will reign until the sun rises so far away

And I change into a mortal human

With of their faults and foibles

I am human

The End

The End

The end is nearing

The final day is at hand

Time to be judged

Sent to Heaven

Sent to Hell

Did you life a good life?

Did you laugh with the sinners?

Did you cry with the saints?

Maybe you didn't care

You may have chosen to live life

Your choice could have been to hide

Living your life through an ancient book

Words meant to restrict life

Deciding for you how you should live

What you can say

Who you may or may not love

The judgment will be swift and final

You will not have the right to appeal

They just want to know one thing

Did you live a good life?

Did you laugh with the sinners?

Did you cry with the saints?

Maybe you just didn't care

Coal

Coal

Standing at the West Virginia state line

Looking into the green mountains of Kentucky

Seeing a past that I would long to forget

Memories of moonshine and watermelon wine

Of a girl with a sweet Georgia accent

And the smell of magnolias in her hair

A house in a town of 300

Seven children sharing a single bed

They cuddle close for warmth from the winter cold

Reading by firelight late into the night

Coal dust covers everything I own

A world made up of just shades of gray

A life of sadness and depression

Their faces are black from coal dust

Their lungs filled with cancer

No one will mourn their deaths

Everything and everyone by the company

Even their souls are owned by the mines

People live and die never knowing better

Never looking out of their small town

Never seeing beyond the entrances to the mines

Their eyes tell of such suffering

Children starving and unable to learn

As their clothes fall apart and fall in the mud

No one knows of how they live

No one knows how they suffer

No one knows how they die

No one cares as long as the coal keeps coming

No one cares

Hero Cowboys

Hero Cowboys

The peaks of the Rocky Mountains

The  mighty rivers of the northwest

The epic wastelands of the south

The endless miles of grass in the east

Men wandered surviving them all

Horses were their only family

Their guns their only friends

Every hill could bring a new life

Every turn hides death from a piece of lead

Names like Gene, Roy, Tom and Audie

They lived every Saturday afternoon

Fighting in a small town’s saloon

Shooting the bad man in a gunfight

They never hurt an innocent

They lit up a dark movie screen

To millions of boys they were heroes

Always fighting for the power of right

They always got the girl in the end

Where have the western heroes gone

The ones who were faithful to their characters

Hollywood has moved on

They don’t make heroes any longer

They are only found in fifty year old reruns

If you are lucky enough to find them

Mommie

Mommie

Mommie, I was born just hours ago

You looked at me

My eyes were barely open and could see your face

You were happy for a moment

Then your look changed to hatred

What could I have done in such a short time?

Was I that bad of a child that you despised me?

I know I cried

Calling for your love for just a moment

But you would not let me look into your eyes

Now, I lay into the cold winter's winds

There are no blankets to keep me warm

Rotting food surrounds me

I am too young to survive on it

I cry harder than I ever had before

Yet, no one hears me or no one cares

Half of my life I have been alone

Something no baby should ever feel

Tonight will be my first night

Tonight will be my last night

I never even had the chance to be held

Never had the chance to smile

Never had to chance to be love

I just have the chance to die

Life In The Jungle

Life In The Jungle

Walking through the jungle

It appears to be hell on Earth

Dark and humid it draws your soul

Snakes hang down from the trees

Hoping that someone wanders close
Spiders the size of cats live in the trees

Their venom poisonous enough to kill with one bite

Cats wander the jungle looking for their prey

Some died at the hands of the deadly paradise

Others wasted away trying to find their way out

Yet, there is a temptation to go walking

To see what the jungle has to offer

They forget that it is an alien world

A world humans are not welcome

They enter under their own risk

Some come back changed

Others are just unheard of again

Such is man's life in the jungle

Two Warrior Hearts

Two Warrior Hearts

Two warrior hearts

Beating separately

The sound is deafening

Telling all other hearts to stay away

They have been alone for so long

Fighting different battles

Under a dark moon they meet

The stars fade away as they get closer

Their beating is the same

Sounding as if they are just one heart

One heart wounds the other

The other hearts wounds the ffirst

Cutting a vein in each other's hands

The weaker heart beats even stronger

That night they shared the sting of blood

Such passion erupts without a word

The two hearts become one

They are united for all time

They are not married

They are bound by blood

A stronger bond cannot be found

A Klingon love is eternal

As it should be when two warrior heart meet

Lost In My Mind

Lost In My Mind

Lost in my own world

So hungry

So thirsty

Where are the animals?

Where is the water?

Where is the light?

There isn’t one star to guide me

The sky is full of faint lights

To far away to help me find my way

No hope of ever seeing the sun again

It is a world of black

My mind is making me do without

Maybe it wants to kill me

I do not know

I do not care

Let it bring starvation

Let my tongue swell with thirst

I will fight with my last breath

Struggling against my mind

I will not let it win

I cannot let it win

I am stronger than anything my mind can create

It can keep its barren world

It can keep the dry river beds

I will survive despite my mind

I will survive