Reach For You--Black Series--Written Oct 29

It Doesn't Matter 

You tell me

Tomorrow or Yesterday 

This Place holds you.

Your arms around me

You say I never have to leave

To stay here

Would be safe.

Easy 

To just breath the wet Night air

Familiar

Safe.

But the Light

I say

Is the Sun in my Sky

I must feel.

If only for moments

To reach for it's Light

Doesn't mean 

I don't also reach for you.

Dark Sky--Black Series--Written Oct 29

Your Coat Wraps Around Me

Flutters around my ankles

You're warm against my skin

Flesh & Blood like me.

But somehow I know

This can't be true

Something about this Place

Is too much obsorbed in you.

Like the ground outside

Soaking up the rain at my feet

The World here

Breaths you in like you're it's Life.

Then how can I seperate 

You from it

This Dark Sky

From the Sun that hides.

Time Moves On--Black Series--Written Oct 29

The Staircase In My Dreams 

I fall 

Or so I feared

But you were there all along.

In the Darkness appeared

Out of the Light

You came

Caught me on the way down.

Your face I remembered always

That look

Time stops, my Heart beats

& I can't breath.

I feel your arms around me

Strength that should scare me

Eyes so dark

But you're all I can see.

I finally breath

& Time moves on

Sound once again reaches my ears

Rain pours outside.

Journey Above--Black Series--Written Oct 29

How is it

You Touch me

& Only my Mind

Feels you here.

These staircases

Rising into the clouds

Above me

Too tempting to resist.

I try, you see

Afraid of the Fall below

But they call to me

Asking for my Forgivnes.

For they only deliver the Message

They say

A Messager

For He is truly the One.

The One 

Who calls me, they say

To this Place

To this Journey above.

Only They Who Hear--Black Series--Written Oct 29

Buildings 

That rise above you

They sing to the Heavens

Your praises.

Gargoyles 

Upon granit steps

Raised into the sky above

Look down upon us.

Their Eyes

Focused on who guides them

Guardians of all things

That lay in wait here.

Quiet

Rests upon these walls

Keeping in what might

Echo out into the streets below.

Your Voice

Screams my name

But it's only they who hear

And in my Mind I see you

Coming near.

You're Not Alone--Hope & Survivors--Pain, Fear, Loss, Moving On--How I Do That On My Blog

When pain, injury, illness, hits me--I taught myself as far back as I can remember remembering anything--To not feel. To experience it is to know it happened. To know it happened, is letting it happen. To let it happen, is your fault. To pretend it's not happening--Or deal with it later--Is a survival instinct--A way to cope w/ what you can't control--& control is important. And terrifying to someone young when they don't have it. Or at least it was to me.

I learned to ignore pain--It allowed me to simply not experience it until it was over--& sometimes not even then. But you know--It's still there. So what happens then.

I've had 3 1/2 days of labor w/ out pain meds, medical problems & injuries head to toe, a car accident,  dog & cat bites--& the worst for me...Emotional & mental pain over ppl I love, that turned me into a person I didn't know I would become, after things I didn't know I could survive.

And so here at 41, never really thinking I'd make past 30--I sit with my daughter sick again, & my jaw & one side of my face killing me after a fluke injury, & my mom helping me, because that's just who she is. I mention 1 time our need for prayers-- our FB is flooded w/ concern. 

And life goes on. The pets need feeding. And holidays come anyway--Even though you feel like shit. And I sit here, & remember that this too shall pass.

I write this to you now, only because as I was inspired to write--The only way I really know how to live in that moment of pain & hope--I saw that my style had changed. That the pace, the intent--The pain show through.

And that's not so bad.

It's ok to be afraid. To not be sure. To not know what comes next. To look back & see success & feel good about it, even though it hurt along the way.

That's what I've discovered really--That it's not perfect.  That it's a struggle--But that there's no shame in that.

So when you see someone struggling-- & Just holding it in, just to get through the day--Don't judge. Because this could be a really long day, that seems like it will never end. 

We all deal in our way--Just know that you're not alone.

Waiting For Me--Black Series

How Beautiful

These words make you

How they paint you

In the best Light.

How I want to show them

Who you are

& Here I am 

With only words to show you with.

When you're more than words

More than letters & symbles on the Page

You're Light in Darkness In a Shadowed World.

So then
How do I say to these
Who don't know you
That a burst of Light, only spark will do.

That your breath
Fire in the Cold
Is enough to warm me
Sustain a glow.

That the embers of you
Carry me through
On this Journey
To where you'll be waiting for me.

Never Let Me Go--Black Series

You Know

As I sit here & think of you

I realize how much 

You mean to me.

It's funny 

How the things you say

As you never speak

Are clearer than anything before.

I speak of you

About how you are always here with me

That your Presence

Keeps me company here.

So how do

You find your Place here

Even though 

It sometimes feel I've never seen you.

A Magisty

In an Honored place in my Mind

Taking root there

Growing into everything I do.

But that's the way it is

I suppose

With Someone 

Like you.

It doesn't matter

How often I see you

I only have to Know

That you'll never let me go.

Return--Black Series

As The War Rages On

Look inside of me

This much you will know is True

My One, my Only, You.

This Place of Darkness

Stillness as the sounds of other Battles

Still ring & echo in my ears

Light shines only as you enter this space.

You drag me here

Each night as I lay awake

Remembering what it was

To not feel anything at all.

Awake in the Darkness

Or is it the Light

The same for me

When you're not here.

The sounds of you

Reflect off these walls

An echo chamber 

In my Soul.

This 

This is the Sound 

I think of when 

I think of you.

Victory

Peace

Quite

Your Return.

You Hear Me Sigh--Black Series

The Light 

Blinding me from the inside

Flashes in 

My Mind.

That moment of realization

That what you were 

Was real to me

And yet something more.

That the touch of your hand

Was a like a life line

A tether 

Tieing me from here, to you.

Your eyes

I keep seeing

Those Dark beautiful windows

Tinted in ever changing shades of grey.

Silver as you first see me

The flashes of yellow as they change

Burning into something new

Slowly calming to dark grey once more.

Black as you come near me

Walking with your head down

Looking up

Staring into me like you do.

Blacker still as your pale white wings

Turn the Darkest color of your eyes

Colors cascading translucent 

For one second in Time.

Then that final Touch

When you reach for me

When all things stop

The World stops & looks at you.

Waits for it's Conqurer

It's Healer 

To allow it 

It's next breath.

And that's when you finally reach for me

You hear me sigh

My World Awakes 

& Takes each new breath with you.

What You Don't See--Black Series

The Scenery Brings Me Here

Songs of birds that sing at night

The flowers the bloom only in the Dark

That circle around my ankles

& Brush against my waist.

I hear this place in my Dreams

Calling me like a constant distant song

It's music in my ears

Coming from your Soul.

Light never shines here

Oh, that's what some may think

A constant gloom

But they've never seen the Dark as I have.

The Sun shines bright here

Or is it the Moon

Sets gently upon it's honored place

In this Magical Dark sky.

A Place where only the Seek-ers go

The Opening, it's called

Oh, but some know it as 

The Other Side Of The Veil.

This is not really so

You might think

Because if it's really there 

Why haven't you seen it before.

Why, because my Sightless friend

To Know beyond what lies before you

You must trust 

What you dont see.

The Weight Of Your Soul--Black Series

The Darkness Comes

& I think of you

Because I know as the Light falls

So shall the World around me, at your feet.

They know you

These Creatures that only come out at night

Their likeness fearsome to most

Their beauty radiant to only some.

Those who know 

Understand what they see

Sense what lies here beneath this surface

The rippling circles guide us to you.

Like a Seek-er
& A See-er be
Fortunes & Prophecies
Are realized at your feet.

And yet  here you stand before me
Like a great Sacrifice at my Alter
You lay your Soul in my hands
To weigh it's Destiny.

I look in your eyes
& See as I always do
Transparent the Deeds you fear
Shall destroy my Love for you.

And I whisper in your ear
As I always do
That the weight of your Soul
Shall be never be too heavy
If you let me carry it with you.

Portrait--Black Series

If I Wrote It

More simply

Saying only

That I Love you.

Would that be enough

Enough so you would understand

That this thing in my Heart

Explodes out of me.

Falls on every thing I do

Touches my life 

Trickling over it

Coats it in shades of you.

In Crimson Red
Like your lips
That touch me
Whisper my name.

In Delicate White
Like your pale skin
Soft against me
As you hold me.

In Hypnotic Black
Like your wings
That brush against me
Promises of Eternity.

Is this all you need
This portrait in my Soul
I carry with me
As my entire life reminds me of you.

Home--Black Series

The Things I don't Notice

Are things I guess I should

But I see you 

All at once.

The little things

That are who 

You are

I notice only over Time.

The way you wear your hair

Close

Smells of you

Of the forests I've only once seen.

The crystals against the delicate flesh

On your ears

Pierced 

Shine in the moon's light.

The silver chain

Around your neck

A testament 

To Ancients Ones of Times Gone By.

The way you move

As if Time slows down just for me

Knowing how good it feels
To watch you.

The way you sway
When you lean in close to me
Shift
& Lean in some more.

How my Heart speeds up
How you catch your breath
Taking another step closer
As I watch you breath me in.

Your eyes
As they change color
From grey, to silver,
To grey again, then always black.

The way your wings touch me
Pull me in
& Let me know I've made it home.

Whisper--Black Series

The Night Air

That always surrounds us

Even when it's day

Smells of you.

I close my eyes

& feel another tear

Trickle down

Soft against my cheek.

You ask me why I cry

But I only hear this 

In my mind

But your voice echos in my ears.

You know why

Your touch says

Brushes against my skin

On fire.

I look up

& see in you 

The Light 

That shadows my Soul.

I close my eyes again

Tight

So I can hide from you
But you won't let me go.

I see you there
In my Mind's Eye
When I think I've lost you
You find me.

Opening my eyes
I feel you here
Inside me 
In the Places even I don't like to go.

Your face next to me
Breath in my hair
Fingers digging 
Into my skin.

And you whisper
Once again
I'll never let you go.

The Floor Below--Hope&Survivors/Recovery Series--How I Cope On My Blog

Monsters 

They live everywhere

But I remember 

When I was little

I was sure they were under my bed.

I remember laying there

On the edge

Looking over
& knowing if I could see them

Then I could conquer them.

I couldn't lay against the wall 

At my back

Couldn't just sit there & wait.

So I layed there 

Looking down 

Over the edge
At the carpet
The floor close enough to touch
If I braved my arm out that far.
And I tell you
The scariest thing in the world
To a kid laying in the dark
Is the floor below.
The unknown
On the way there.
What lays there in the dark
Waiting to get you
On the way down.
And you discover that
The rest of life isn't that much Different.
That the reach down to nowhere
Is scary as hell
Cause it's the Monsters waiting to get you
That you can't see
That scare us the most.
But
As you reach farther
In the dark spaces below
It becomes easier to see.
That the only thing I was afraid of
Was me.


The Floor Below
Hope & Survivors
Recovery
Series

Lisa Knigge
October 21, 2014

lisaknigge
straythoughts.
blogspot.
com

Poetry Blog
&
Hopeful Survivor
Journal

Deep whispers In My Mind--Black Series

The sky above us

Opens when it hears your call

Creatures all around us

Know your name.

The winds howl

In search of you

Touches your skin

But it's me who feels it.

Your long delicate fingers
Fold around my waist
The gentle hold on me deceiving
As I am tempted to fall against you.

My breath comes faster
As I feel my heart pound in time with yours
A familiar cadence
One I feel in my Soul.

My eyes take in all of you
My mind's eye does the rest
Your quiet stanc
A voice I've never heard.

Oh, but I hear you still
Deep whispers in my mind
Telling me what I imagine is real
That I can have you for all time.

A Circle I Can Trust--What does 'I Support' Mean Series--How I Decide What To Put On My Blog

I tell you--Nothing weeds out the ppl in your life, like announcing something has changed your life.

It's not a 'cool' change? It's 'taboo'? It's still looked down on? It most likely leaves your abandoned ass blowing in the breeze, while everyone-Or so it seems-Can't jump ship fast enough?

That's when whoever's left--Are your real LifeRafts after all.

I talk a lot about ppl on the Outside Of The Mainstream--& I also tell you, I write about what I know--& I'll probably always be there, because this, I realize more as Time passes-Is where I was destined to be.

Life is not simple--& It's not pretty.

It's a freaking struggle--& It smells like shit a lot of the time.

But it's us--The Gardeners Of Life--That live in the shit, with our heads held high--& Manage to drag not only ourselves--But at least one other person out of it, with us.

You want to see a Winner?? Look at someone who gets out of bed everyday--Even though they have no idea if this is going to be one of the good days--Or the bad ones.

You want to see a Survivor?? Look at the one who faces the Demons that haught them--& Manages to not only look those waking nightmares in the eye--They teach those bitches how to sit up & roll over.

You want to see the Coolest ppl you'll ever know??

Look at the ones who know they're lucky--Just to be alive.

You want to see the Toughest, Hardest, & most Compassionate ppl you'll ever know??

Look at the ones you've turned you're back on--Because the ones they Love, aren't good enough for you to know anymore.

This is Who I Am--The one who hopes they're able to drag the ones they Love out of that hole.

These are the People I Love--They ones I'd sacrifice anything & anyone else to protect.

I learned from the best--& I'm teaching it the best way I know how.

You Gotta Have My Back--Because I Gotta Walk Point.

My Circle may be small--But at least it's one I can Trust.

Maybe-I Bet-I Hope-I Know--Part 3--Warriors

You know

That's not so easy for me

That when I look around me

Looking for you

& All I feel is you gone

That those moments sometimes

Hit me the hardest.

You know 

That I look up in the skies above me 

Where ever I go

Thinking 

Maybe he'll be close

I bet he's looking down back at me

I hope he's smiling like me

I know I'll see him again someday.

You know 

I love you

That it has never changed

That 

Decades 

Wrinkles

Tears

& 

Time

Has never really taken you 

Away from me.

Maybe-I Bet-I Hope-I Know--Part 2--Warriors Series

I hope

You see me here, from there

See how I look for you every day

In the little things we used to do.

I hope 

You can can feel me from there

That I still love you

Still feel you in my heart

Beating like a drum beat 

To the song we used to dance to.

I hope

You can rest easy there

Knowing your job was done well

That you can relax 

Can just look around you & know

It's ok to just...be.

I know 

Someday

We'll see each other again

But this day, yesterday, & even tomorrow

It's not so easy to do

To sit here & wait some more.

I know 

That it will be so beautiful there

Where you already are

& we'll enjoy it together

Just like it used to be

Before you were gone.

I know

You see me already

& Hold me still

That you'd say it doesn't matter 

That it's not like before

That if this is all we have

Then let's enjoy it while it lasts. ...

Maybe-I Bet-I Hope-I Know--Part 1--Warrior Series

Maybe 

It will look familiar

Maybe it will be decorated 

In things you know.

Maybe 

I'll know you've made it there

Know you're safe

Know I won't have to worry

Anymore.

Maybe

They'll have all the good things there

The stuff you always liked

The things you were really looking for

The things you couldn't find before.

I bet 

There'll be bands 

& Dance floors

& All the girls will blush & smile

When they say yes

When you ask them to dance.

I bet

The music never stops

& The Party has always just begun

Where they never play that song you hate.

I bet

I can almost see you there

Smiling only the way you do

Still in uniform

But free

Free of the burdens you carried 

When you wore it here. ....

Be The One To Lead--Black Series On My Blog

Thanks to everyone who is reading my "Black Series"...

It's pretty cool watching it get so many Pageviews--& Shares, Likes, RTs, & FAVs. 

See--Here's what's so cool about it for me...

This person--Is a combination of my AZ Winds, Wings, & Roses Series Poems...

But--It's actually the other way around.

He is the original. The whole One. The One I really see, when I write about the Others. When I write about anyone, in this way.

But--Here's the thing. I know he's Dark--& I know that I feel some relief in that. I fear that, somehow, that's not normal, or that when ppl see him--& Me--So clearly...They won't like what they see, & choose to walk away.

Even now--After 41 yrs of my own life-& Most of it focusing on how to Be On Point--& Finding ways to spend Quality Time somewhere in between, w/ the ppl I Walk it for--I still find myself amazed at my ability to be blind to myself. To not acknowledge who is really such a real part of what I am--& Understanding that who & what I really don't want to look at in my Little Inner World--Is actually me.

So I went through some steps, some stages, like I do--& Decided to let "Him" out--The way I really see him, when I've written about so many others.

And maybe this is what we all do--Dance around the Bon Fire-- Chanting sacred tunes, wishing, & warding away who we really are.

But there it is anyway.

So Dance--Sing a New Song--& Be Glorious--With Who You Really Are...

Because you Dance with it all anyway--It just might be nice to sometimes, be the one to lead.

Away From You--Black Series

The Darkness

Lays deep

In this place.

An ending 

Never 

Seems near.

Light 

Only shadows my face

Reflections seem to bright.

But this Place

You make for me here

Is all I want to see.

For, when you hold me near

I can breath

Can finally take a breath.

And breath you in I do

Your scent of the ground beneath my feet

The earth quaking in it's loss of you.

Your touch

Silence always

Only the sound of your skin on mine.

A breeze at my feet

As the Storm  

Begins to grow.

Your fury all around me 

Howling in my ears

Tells me our time is near.

Music almost, it seems

A rhythem of Nature 

All around us.

Moves the way you do

Forces me to bend 

With your winds.

For to hold on too long

Could cause me to break

And fall away from you.

Start Again--Black Series

The Resolution

To the Story

We're coming close.

Why is it

We feel like it all

Must fade to black.

Like the climax

Of you & me

Will come to a soundless end.

Afraid 

To let the crescendo 

Echo through these surrounding streets.

But as I stand before you

You hold me 

Silent.

Your words ringing 

Through my ears

My Heart pounds in my chest.

I know this Place now

This Santuary

You created in my mind.

Peace is all we'll know here

Your hand on mine

Your whispers in my ears.

How you feel to me

The way you breath 

Your heart beat next to mine.

It doesn't have to end.
You always
Tell me.

We will start again
Our Souls
Forever joined as One.

Nothing More--Black Series

Tenderness

A concept 

I hadn't known.

Frailty

Was a thing

To be feared.

Your gentle hand

Against my skin

Was something I feared the most.

But here in the quiet moon light

I feel your hands upon me

And I know what relief is.

A touch 

Like one 

Never before.

A soft kiss

Upon my 

Shoulder.

A gentle breeze

Whispers to me

That you'll never leave.

A moment in time

Where all else

Stands still.

And only you

Awaits me

Nothing more.

Rescue Me--Black Series

Out of the Darkness

A figure 

Comes.

Shape

Distance

Time.

All things 

Motionless

Undefined.

Until

He comes 

Closer still.

Face

Eyes

Smile.

In this order

Do I see 

My Destiny.

Teeth sharp

I sense

More than see.

But 

This is always 

The way, you see.

In my 

Minds Eye

I corner him.

In front of me

He stands

And I never think 

Rescue me.

I Still Believe--Black Series

Moonlight

Like a  spotlight 

Shines.

Your voice 

Thru the fog

Penitrates me deep.

Wings of statues

Like spires

Rise above the haze.

Your eyes black

Through the distance

Know my intentions clear.

Chimes of steeples

Ring

Their sound a reminder still.

Your presence 

A challenge

To all I know.

Your Heart

In mine

The only thing left

I still believe.

Michael--Part 3--Thank You

...And so

If you are

Lucky

Time
Will grant
You
This
Reprieve.

To 
Understand
What has
Always been
Beyond
This
Foggy Viel
A
Sightless
Existence
We so
Foolishly
Called
Life.

The Eternal
Light
Of
Grateful
Perception
Reveals
A
Battle Worn
Sword
And
Shield
A Spirit
Lifted up
By
Wings
Of
White.

Wearing
Only
The
Face
Of a man
You
Never
Knew.

Michael--Part 2

...When

Even from

Afar

You understand 

This has become

A Miraculous

Moment

When your 

Vision

Has been 

Cleared

The 

Scales

Removed 

From your

Eyes.

You are

In the presence

Of 

Both 

Your

Worlds 

Changing.

Can't you feel 

It

Now

The Anointing

Of 

One

Lonely 

Man

Doing 

What Destiny

Has 

Called 

Him

To do.

And 

As this one

Soldier

Warrior

Stands before

You

You see it now

As it was always 

Meant 

To 

Be

As it had always 

Been...

Michael--Part 1--PPN & SS-& Those 2 Guys At The Airport(You Know Why)

Michael

An Angel

This ancient 

Name

This timeless

Word

Is known

By Heart.

He stands

Alone

In ones 

Mind

Peaceful

Protecting all who 

Enter 

Here.

A Prayer

Is 

Said

A chanted

Devotion

A Sanctified 

Moment

In 

Time

When 

All who need 

Him

Shall know 

He 

Will be there.

A look

Cast upon them

A presence 

When time

Stands still...

.

Into The Light--Black Series

Black

Roses

Beneath my finger tips

They hold me

When you're gone

When I feel the velvet

Of your touch 

Lingering on my lips.

Red 

Roses

Petals against my skin

Contrasts against your 

Smooth pale skin

Brings forward the 

Crimson shadows

Behind your eyes.

White 

Roses

Turn whiter still

Like snow 

I've never seen

Sands
Tiny crystals
That bury 

The past

Hide the truth.

Light
To
Dark
And
Dark back to light again
This
Is how you do
How you
Turn colors
Into shades of grey
Turn
My nights sky
Into the light
That brings me
Home.

Snow Globe--Black Series

Crowed streets

Echos of you

Voices not 

My own

Linger in the air

But all I ever hear

Is you.

Distance is Time

But Time slows

Carefully draws 

Me near

As you find me here

Looking for you.

Always searching

Watching me

I see that now

How you were always there

In front of me

And I never knew.

Your shadow 

Lingers near

Casts a light over me

Brighter than 

Some simple sun

Magnifies 

Imperfections

You find so dear.

Others
They come and go
Barely 
Seen
A blur 
Inside a bubble
Of existence 
Captured like a snow globe
My world 
Trembles
When I look at
You.

Other Than You--Black Series

Black shadows

Draw closer

Ever near

Your strength

Invites me

Draws me near.

Moon lit darkness

Collides with 

Your shadows

Collapsing

Sound and light

Until all

Are consumed 

By you.

Dark vibrations

As your voice

Lingers near

A chorus of 

The trees and stars

Nature

Even

Is entranced 

By you.

Highlights of reds and blues

Blood beneath

A fragile surface

Seeps closer

Revealed

If only

In wishful 

Imagination.

Gentle hues

Bluring together

Transcend 

All thoughts

Other than you.

You Inside Of Me--Black Series

Black 

Long

Flowing 

Jacket

Touches the ground

Moves with the 

Jealous 

Wind.

Black eyes

That pierce me

From across 

The street

Through this crowd

See only me

But all I can

Feel

Is you.

White teeth

Sharp

Glow perfect

In the lamp light

From above you

A fact I shouldn't know.

Pale hands

Clinch 

By your sides

Flex 

As you breath me 

In.

Black boots

Heavy against 

The black top street

Pounding 

With my Heart

As you come

Ever closer

To me.

Silver eyes

Reflect the
Moon

Light
Casts a glare
Blinding me
Once again
So all I see & hear
Is you inside of me.

Reflecting Pool--Black Series

Black 

My favorite color

Maybe it's because

It comes in so many

Shades of you.

White

That gentle breeze

That sifts through

Your wings.

That smooth

Soft

Texture 

Against my skin.

Violet

Crimson
Iridescent Blue
Relections of
Space
Time
Ripples
Of the textures
Of you.

And Black
Once again
As those colors
Light and Dark
Combine
Make a
Reflecting pool
What I see
In me
I see in you.

Enlightened--Black Series

Black wings

That seem to follow me.

The softness of them

Against my skin.

Black pools

Surround you.

Light that 

Cannot escape.

Light captured

Pulls into you.

Shines irrodecent 

Against your skin.

Compassion reflected

From your Soul.

Bright 

Shines into the aura 

You bring.

Patience rewarded

Redemptionss received.
Souls enlightened
Generate a Power of their own.

Cold As Ice--Black-A New Series--Inspired By/Inspiration For My AZ Rains,Wings,&Roses Series

Black eyes

You see me from afar.

You hold me here

With spikes of thought.

Pressed into my Mind.

Like a presence

You surround me.

Black nails

Upon your hands.

Long fingers 

That I feel you

Press into me.

Or maybe I only 

wish you did.

Blond hair

Carresses you face.

A frame.

Perfect.

A halo of light

Around those dark

Perfectly familiar eyes.

Pale skin
Soft to my touch.
Thick
So that barbs
Battles of will
Never peniteate it.

A Heart
Cold as ice.
Warm only
To my own.
Eternity
To watch it melt
With mine.

Black Wings--Black Series--1st in Black Series-Before I realized It Was Meant To Be A New Series

Soft black wings

Flapping next to me.

A crack in the air

That feeds
My mind.

This tells me

You're near.

A soft breeze

Against my skin.

Flesh tingles

Wanted...--Dragons/Warriors Series

Wanted

One who can 

Ride Dragons.

Not a Tamer

Nor a Slayer

Say I.

But a Heart

That can soar 

With the Wind.

Not a Persuer

Nor a Conqurer

Shall be advised.

But a Soul

That Can
Bewitch a Wild Beasts Heart.

Let they who
Are Brave Of Heart & Of Mind
Wrestle this Dragons Will.

For the Reward
Eternity
And the Prize
This Dragons Soul.

A Famiar Friend--Dragons/Warriors Series

The darkness of night

It fills the spaces between

What I know & what I've seen.

The light inside me is still

Someday it may replaces places I fear 

But for now I reach for you to be near.

Echos of banishment

Hold me close

So often only you can direct my pose.

I reach for you again & again 

Show me how to perceive

Anything other than this unwillingness to leave.

Until then
Hold me tight
Without you I don't feel right.

I know I can see the light
But Darkness is a familiar friend
 I don't want you & I to end.