She Has The Medicine

What ever has been said of me
I’m still the one you call
For night sweats, death threats
And shadows in the hall

What ever has been said of me
I’m still the one you call
When your mind is fractured 
And you’re broken by the world

I have paid a pound of flesh 
For the wisdom that I draw
The medicine is in me
And I’m the keeper of that door

You should learn to be more gentle 
With my fragile human form
For when the darkness comes for you 
I’m still the one you call

Seeking the Shore

Chaos is Corrosive
It eats away at me
And I rust and become brittle

Others I see
Lean into the Frey
Beat up by the shock waves
They fly on a constant high
They can never come down from

I leave the storms and chaos behind me
To sail back to the shore
My ship wrecked from the sea
Seeks a home in calm waters once more

Unseen

The unseen, the Shadows and smoke screens

The winding lines of energy, that form in between

The words unspoken, and the emotion

Like water it flows, over me and grows

Into images, and messages

My vision expressed, release the repressed

I Dreamt of a Golden Jaguar

In the night you came for me
Someone had let you in
You had killed before
I could see the blood all over you
I took my innocence and I ran from you

I could feel your power
But my pace
matched yours
My face
matched yours
My muscles moving under skin
matched yours
My sight in the night
matched yours
We moved as one as I ran from you
Until I ran no more

I let you in
After so long
I had kept up my walls
You were always hunting me in the night

I am not your prey
I have prayed for you
To come
Now we are one

The Wolf is at The Door

I can hear the howling

The lone wolf prowling

The she wolf with her pack

Circling and looping back

I built a floral arbour

It doesn’t look much like armour

My father taught me this

In a time full of myths

These petals of purple and blue

That I delicately bruise

They bruise me too

My knuckles look used

This will be a warning for the few

Who know the time is due

It’s time to lock the door

And keep up your pantry store

The wolf is coming for you

Better to stain your fingers blue

Decorate your gate with Wolfsbane blooms

And stay away from the light of the moon

Then wait for hunger to consume the world

Until we see signs of new life unfurled

Rise

In the desert I walk

Red earth beneath my feet

Black snakes writhe within me

Winding around my spine

They rise to the sky

Mouths open drinking in the light

Growth rips the skin from them

And it sheds like fine paper

A single white snake rises

Like a sword in the night

The reflection blinding

A new born creation

Delicate and bright

Born from darkness

Eclipse my Light

Oblivion my old friend
Take my hand and lead me into the night
I will follow
Eclipse my light, I will stand in your shadow
Sweet drip, liquid fire, burning desire
Take me to pieces so I may find peace
I see fractured reflections of me
Staring back from the deep

Wildflower

I tried to bring you home with me

Your raw beauty reminded me of mountain tops and misty springs

But you wilted and withered away, you were wasted on me

I carried your trembling body back to the wild places

I thought it would be your grave and I’d been the death of you

But your bent body spilled wild seeds on the earth

And you bloomed again

So now I visit you in the rambling woods 

Your perfume clings to my skin

And I bring the memory of you home with me

As all travellers do

Your face is radiant under the sun in the daylight hours

And the stars in the sky kiss you goodnight

How I envy them

I wish you could bath in my glow

But I am merely a man who wanders the woods

Seeking some beauty for his own 

Take my Light

I see your scars and they are matching mine

We could stand together to align

These beautiful, silver, parallel lines

We could walk the tracks til the end of time

Open the wounds and look deep within

Spend our time hunting Leviathan

You bare the mark you are my kin

You have the pitch, darkness within

From many lives diving deep in sin

Very few know where we have been

I let myself burn to make the light

I incinerate my life to be this bright

As I burn I rise

And I light all the signal fires

You burn and fall like a mighty star

A fallen angel from afar

Our paths split, and our bodies rip

As I rise you fall, and I build a wall

From all my pain, as I cut the chains

I built a suit of armour, made from reflecting glass

Now everyone I meet, thinks I’m their other half

I am a window to their Soul

But I am whole

The Darkness

When the darkness comes
It seeps in through my skin
It burrows out a space within
And tries to make me his
For this night at least
I belong to him
The darkness within

When the dawn rises
I become fire
The darkness expires

Now I remember
To bring an ember
For when the darkness falls
I will light the halls
So all in shadow see
The dark does not consume me

I dreamt a Fractal Star

A dream within a dream 

A skyscape bowed with rain

A crystallised and fractal star

A beauty bright with pain

It poured me full of ecstacy

And tore me from my sleep

Waking to this world not mine

To know the two would meet

The light forming shadow 

Until its highest point

We are being fractured

Until we are re joined 

Take me to Hell

He sold his soul to the devil

And I followed him to hell

I learned to walk through fire there

And burned off all my gold

I could come and go untethered

He was bound to stay

My love was never bright enough

to lift him from his grave

When offered up redemption

He said his soul was stained

He could never walk beside me

In the light of day

He never knew I was the light

Until I walked away