Speak nothing of the shadows

While we trundle in the sun

For summer beams blow scarlet leaves

Through fall and winter's love.

Forget the wrinkles skewed across

The earthly freckled past

And simmer in the solace

Of a soul made free at last

-Victor Tinsdale

trapped within love's walls?

i can find no better fate

chain me to the wall

Doc

The doctor is dead

Who now will fix the fingers

He forgot to fix?

Unfair

Oh how can one man

So much wretched tiredness feel

When life is so short?

Hearts

Clinging tight to love

Our hearts in synchrony beat

Till one heart murmurs

Dependency

Fix me good and right

As if my life depended

On dependency

Fears

Fear of lightning bolts

Volts and volts of frightening bolts

Meter all your fears

HSO

Humiliation

Superficiality

Opportunity

Belief

Belief is madness

If a leaf you aim to be

Please don't be a leaf

Separation

Separation hurts

Just ask my left hand's cousin

Left hand once removed

Bodysome

Some body you are

Are you somebody's body?

Nobody's some body

Cooled joystick

Burns like peppered pins

All the moves come at a price

Wish my hands were cool

as time passes by

beauty forms between wrinkles

our love has survived

forgive my manners

i haven't eaten in days

please pass the ketchup

i shifted slightly

and it squeezed right out of me

what an awful smell

Bread

Before I had bread

I had a loaf for a head

Now I feel toasty

Leverage

I hardly knew it

But I was losing leverage

As someone lost me

forgive me my dear

my lips are far to dusty

to taste this lost love

As morning breaks I am alone

Steaming and beaming a mid-morning toll

The dew befell me and the sun was shone

My heart now empty, soul forlorn.

The breath of the blossoms besought to console

"With thee we will be" the songbirds sweetly sang

Yet as I search skyward all things seem askew

And harrowed my marrow with memories of June.

Flashes of blue and gold panged upon my mind

With wonders and visions of most every kind

While deep in the bowels I was burning with whim

And bursting with sizzle in each of my limbs.

"Take heed" said the flowers whilst slowly the bloomed

"The moon is unearthing, so wisp while we croon"

So I unearthed my knees and left the land well

While I stumbled through heaven

While searching for hell.

-Victor Tinsdale