Automaton

You're just an Automaton,
Simply left in the on.
I wish you could know.

But you'll never know.

With all the things left undone,
Can you say you had fun?
Please just say something.

Please don't say something.

When I look into your eyes,
All I see are the lies,
And I can't help you.

No one can help you.

Nothing more than reflection of deceit,
Your nothing more than meat, you see.
I guess you don't see.

Mindless drifting not knowing you're alive,
You're never knowing life, or me.
You'll never know me.

When I think of everything,
All I feel is this sting,
And I can't feel you.

And you can't feel you.

No beginning and no end,
There is no will to bend.
Is it all over?

It's never over.

Why is it that you can't see,
You'll never really be.
Am I getting through?

I'll never get through.

An Autumn Day

Salvation
A crow and a snake
Through a midday rift
What is at stake?

Calm
A squirrel and an autumn rain
Steam from a moist roof
Will it come again?

Sounds
A drop and a dry leaf
Birds and traffic blend
A mosaic in relief?

Scents
A flower and a cool breeze
A hunger to the surface
And what of the trees?

Longing
A finch and a birch
Two become as one
What of my perch?

Needs
A fern and a cloud
Grass for the sun warmly
Lost in the crowd?

Fear
A tear and a stream
Can't run from the future
What of that dream?

Visions
The sky and a fence
Damn the haze and mist
What makes sense?

Sadness
A wail and a lie
Stepping through the rift
Where am I?

Cold
A gaol and a stare
The winter is coming
Does anyone care?

Peace
A bird and a seed
Must let one go
Can it be freed?

Eulogy for a Squirrel

We have gathered here to send a dearly beloved friend,
Who's taken his leave of this place, to reside up in heaven's grace.
I thank you all for attending, I know how he was befriending.
He can never be replaced.

Paw in peace he was to lend, right up to the very end
It was not hard for us to trace that little smile upon his face.
He was never known offending, to heaven surely ascending,
Joys of living he embraced.

Pleasures he was quick to vend for a seed by which to spend,
Through my yard he was quick to lace from tree to tree with such a grace.
In his quest he was unbending, of his life I am commending,
How our lives were interlaced.

You will be missed little friend, with me to the very end,
In peace of mind you were an ace, bringing a smile to my face.
To you I must be extending, my sorrow is not pretending,
Memories never erased.

How death's dark hand came to rend, without you alone I wend,
Through this dark, dreary garden place, footsteps with mine eye to trace.
None can ever be amending what death has been expending,
Forever with death embraced.

The Fallen

In autumn breeze you fall before,
The throne from which you were crested.
From your new perch you do implore,
For your position to restore.
With new freedoms you've been vested,
In autumn breeze you are restless.
Though amongst your kind you're nested,
How you resist being rested.
But your journey is quite questless,
As you remain sadly crestless.

In autumn breeze you lie greeting,
Welcoming the winter aboard.
Like so many soldiers meeting,
Your time together is fleeting.
Conquering the land like a horde,
In autumn breeze you are speeding.
No quiet corner unexplored,
Yet to your throne quite unrestored.
Despite the worlds quiet pleading,
It's the autumn breeze you're heeding.

Mind Keep

Blood mortar is enemy thwarter,
Distortive, contortive, aborter,
Corrosive, not supportive,
Ferocious, atrocious, extorter,
Emotion promotion reporter,
Exporter, not importer.

Appearing fearlessly adhering,
Sincerest deception endearing,
Unmeasured, not untreasured,
Visionless scenery cohering,
Uncaring, just gearing, ungearing,
Restricted, not convicted.

Where am I? Is it safe now?
Where am I? Can I go now?
Where am I? Where did everyone go?

Prison wall inceptor, acceptor,
Concept interception preceptor,
Susceptive, not perceptive,
Creeping, house keeping, interceptor,
Seraph leper weeping adepter,
Liable, not viable.

Insister passively resisting,
Desisting delightful existing,
Provoked, not invoked,
Insisting for no help enlisting,
Permitting only of subsisting,
Enclosing, not exposing.

Where am I? Is it safe now?
Where am I? Can I go now?
Where am I? Where did everyone go?

Arrested, detested, unrested,
Requested rescue not protested,
Reflective, not infective,
Grotesqueness suppressive invested,
Regressive, oppressive attested,
Opposing, not disclosing.

Entombing, and dooming, consuming,
No bloomy life looming, exhuming,
Encasement, not replacement,
Succumbing, consumptive, mind numbing,
Becoming presumptive shortcoming,
Imparted, not departed.

Where am I? Is it safe now?
Where am I? Can I go now?
Where am I? Where did everyone go?

Created, well gated, vacated,
Berated, freedom is awaited,
Monastic, not elastic,
Seems fated, no hatred abated,
Located in these walls belated,
Receding, not proceeding.

Unbounded, yet with walls surrounded,
Impounded, my mind is confounded,
Enshrouding, not unclouding,
Compounded, my prisons expounded,
Rebounded, my cries echo ungrounded,
Resounding, not abounding.

Where am I? Is it safe now?
Where am I? Can I go now?
Where am I? Where did everyone go?

Dividing, not surviving,
Entwisting, not assisting,
Acquitting, not remitting,
Depriving, not reviving,
Persisting, not existing,
Omitting, not admitting.

Where am I? Is it safe now?
Where am I? Can I go now?
Where am I? Where did everyone go?

AUTODESTRUCT

Armor parked oil leak,
On the ground, no sound
Running burning tail pipe
Churning acid rain

Saturation emission
Violation exhausted
Deep breath, leaves you dizzy
In your shell, To busy to stop

Look around, toxins by the pound
What have we done
Does anyone know
Where to go, to slow

Murderer surrender,
Bystander do nothing
Dying crying lying Mouths,
Seek water, Find slaughter

The end, the end, the end
Is now, take a bow
Don�t ask how to fight it
No answers

Tire piles for miles
Rubber smiles,
Taken to the bank
For disposal

No responsibility for waste
For the spoils there�s haste
Roasted river boils
Around neck rope coils

Poison mercury meat
Hopeless nervous defeat
Paralyzed mangled entangled
Inorganic chains that strangle