Quiescent Wanderer

~Not quite the nomad, where do i wander off to now?

[davidjjoseph]

What I Leave Behind

The world changes in cruel ways.History makes and remakesItself swiftly as we live.So I leave these words for you. I lived my nomadic life,Sad, hard but never dull. My blood that runs in your veinsYearns to bless your many years. Beautiful child of my soul,Let love emerge and meet youEverywhere you find yourself.Soft sunbeams shall light your pathSurely because of these wordsI write freely…

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Unwanted

I desire solitude.A field of my wishesTake form behind my eyes.I close them both slowly. A soft pressure beginsPulsing between my brows.I imitate controlOver air in my lungs. Thoughts arrive as wildfire,Burning through my airways.And a battle beginsAs I fight with my God. I suppress my wild nature,that it may stay hiddenAt least until I riseOut of this restless sleep. I was born unwantedLike…

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Gold

I see a woman on the moon,A silhouette on velvet sky.The night clouds shroud her veiled presence,And my eyes are poisoned by lies. I turn my face, unlock my gazeYet my thoughts plot to linger on.My weakness, stress-tested tonightAs I look on, tempted, alone. My poetry, my adultery,Words to justify, crucify.My baptism, my martyrdom,And angels sell tickets to hell. Each verse, the obverse of my…

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Escaping Complexity

The easiest thing to doIs to pray and hope for luck.Let all things I really needBe simply given to me.But then I soon come to see,That I can dream of prayingAnd hope to fulfill these dreamsOr maybe outsource dreaming.Let me write a golden promptTo build me a golden appThat tells me to manifestMy dream of praying to God.Let me make a mental noteTo add to my daily dreamA vital thing, that is toPray…

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Cycling

I float freelyOn my bicycleFeeling the midnight breezeThrough these empty streets. My gaze bouncesOn peripheral sightsLost in the delicate pleasureOf not needing to arrive. There is balanceSo I let goTrusting the friction betweenRubber, road and my nomad soul

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Houses

There was a house somewhereAt the end of a roadThat dreamed it was a bodyPossessed by people. I was born a ghost thereWith knots tied on my feetAnd a cloak over my face.I bump into others. Spirits move diagonallyI learned that the hard way.The house groans when I talk,Creaking with discomfort. Study broken housesLong enoughAnd you are drawn to their gates.Such is architecture. May the burden…

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Stillness

The monsoon rain fallsOn the screen of my smartwatchThrough these drops time blurs.

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The Martyr

I have to let it all out;All the knots inside my veins,Passed to me by my mother.I must not be a martyr. I have always seen myself,In third person perspective,Watching myself cry and wail,Talking to no one at all. Growing up under my gaze,Like a snake in the desert.My barren head longs for thoughts,That are pure and blessed, but no. I plot my revenge you see,Against my greatest foe, Me!And the…

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A Psalm For When I Fall

Everything is a dark swirl.The night sky and the dark clouds,This whirlwind of helpless thoughts,My eyes stare into nowhere. This art of falling slowlyWith an upward vacant gaze,That I learned from loneliness,I give myself up to fate. Memories fall like raindrops,As air rises to caress.I refuse to break my stareDeep into the nothingness. My limbs flail and quiver on,But my gaze searches for…

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Just You

I see myself standing alone,Where the incense fumes cease.My gaze averted to the ground,Away from pretty wreaths. I push my back against the wall,Exacting my revengeOn my spine for bringing me hereWhile you lay there, breathless. Flowers and ice all around you,Strange faces around me.Trapped in heaven’s holy spotlight,I melt away slowly. They spoke of kindness in your wake,Virtues I never…

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Unread

There is improbability in the air,The sky seems unsure to pour.Faith is not a fear of drought,But a soul reaching for rain. I see my prayers land slowly,In some apocryphal tome,Forsaken by a reader’s gaze,Pulsing with uncertainty. Somewhere on a screen up high,A notification ping,Ignored by heavenly hosts,Serving the canonical. Though I wallow in my sins,Taunted by my own desires,There comes a…

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The Beautiful Ruin

What it is that music is trying to say,The tune and the words and that pressure between my eyes,Blessings bounce off the painted glass windows,Frankincense and smoke, slow dancing with my senses.I swirl in bliss and then fall down flatInto the depths of my self-loathing agony,And I wrestle with my inadequacy.My weaknesses suffocate me.I stumble out fast as I canInto the arms of a cruel worldThat…

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The Idol

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Vestige

Beneath deep chasms of shame,A dungeon built for my name.Through smog and mist, torches burnOn this maze with no return. A torn shroud hangs from the soul,Woven with mistakes made whole.Yet a holy river flows,Through the filth it hates and knows. I wear chains forged by my breath,Monologues mimicking death.An imposter walks with me,Speaking my name fluently. Walking past this broken plane,Past…

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In the city

Rest a while, close your eyesUnder the blissful shade.Drowning in peaceful dreams,Your soul drifts in slumber,Alongside memories.Rudyard’s words resoundingDeep in the city of sleep. Knowledge of its alleysIs drawn inside your palms.Plans and routes to follow,Lanes and paths to avoid.In through the veins of dreamsNearing dawn, alarms sound,Grounding the roving soul.

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Origin

How potent was the forbidden fruit,On the tree of life inside Eden?Why was the tree of life left unguarded,If the fruit held power to shake heaven? There was no illusion of justice,No trial that day, just raw sentencing.Only cause and effect, reap what you sow,You reached for knowledge, you chose to evolve. Are there different set of humans now,Created from mud and bone of the rib.Is there a…

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Genesis

Above unknown divine expanse,A dance. The stars that slowly sway on high,Then die. He calls them back to darker times,His crimes. A just God weeps beneath his throne,Alone. His tears give birth to brighter stars,New scars. The cyclic whirl of time shall spin,Within. Are we the fruit of his mistakes?Heartaches.