Poem: Drowning a Demon

Another boring day

What is that? I hear you say

The problem in my eyes

A messed-up compromise

But can I still get out alive

To find some paradise?

One more drop

I know I’ve got to stop

I’ve been hanging on too long

Just trying to find this song

One more drop

Just a tortured soul

I’m buried in a hole

Needing another drink

To let my conscience think

But can I still get out alive

To find some paradise?

One more drop

I know I’ve got to stop

I’ve been hanging on too long

Just trying to find this song

One more drop

Long lost friends

Where does it end?

They were all so loyal at first

But I had to quench my thirst

But can I still get out alive

To find some paradise?

One more drop

I know I’ve got to stop

I’ve been hanging on too long

Just trying to find this song

One more drop

One last drink

Who knows what to think?

My life is a ruined climb

The descent is so sublime

But can I still get out alive

To find some paradise?

One more drop

I know I’ve got to stop

I’ve been hanging on too long

Just trying to find this song

One more drop

It doesn’t matter anymore

Lying in a heap upon the floor

Memories spin and fade

Into the oblivion I have made

I can still get out alive

My own life is paradise

Poem: Salvation

In my time of regret and hatred
I can feel your presence near
Like Daniel in the lion’s den
You banish all my fear
My conscience choked by memory
The cancer eats my soul
Like Thomas I doubt my vision
But you make my spirit whole
Pride and prejudice both look down
Upon my fallen sins
I caste my eyes around me
And hear the sound of violins

When the sun goes down upon me
You forgive my last mistake
Like Cain I contemplate this chain
Of events that I must break
My life wrapped up in danger
In the darkness of the night
I struggle blindly on this path
Still learning wrong from right
Pride and prejudice both look down
Upon my fallen sins
I caste my eyes around me
And hear the sound of violins

There’s a dying voice within me
Like the trumpets of the kings
I lie down by calm waters
And let my dreams have wings
I gaze at the last temptation
Of a forgotten memory
In the last dance of loneliness
I see it’s only me
Pride and prejudice both look down
Upon my fallen sins
I caste my eyes around me
And hear the sound of violins

So onward on this journey
To the top of the wondrous hill
Like Judas I paid my penalty
For the betrayal of life’s goodwill
And now I climb still further
Discovering the dreams I lost
My faith it stands beside me
As I no longer count the cost
Pride and prejudice both look down
Upon my fallen sins
I caste my eyes around me
And hear the sound of violins