MOMENT BETWEEN THOUGHTS

 2003

~ Evocare ~

Losing my words to you

I am no longer great nor brave

Sheltering beneath your palm

Sweet sympathy turns to dew.

~ Libatio ~

If only lightning could liberate

Aim and strike at the core

Where guilty passions rage

I would, this crown of thorns, replace.

~ Lysandra ~

Alas, towards a fading breath

Like the mellifluousness

Of a daydream

I am gone.

~ Ingenerare~

I belong in

This numbed silence

In this playground of thoughts

Where Truth lies still, skinned.

~ Elysium ~

Seated at the helm of introspection

Entwined amidst an embroidered fallacy

Eyes gaze forth without condemnation

With nerves unsettled.

~ Provocatio ~

Soliloquy of praise

Perched on my hand like a dove

Without remonstrance

I release it to a forgotten paradise.

~ Evasio ~

Fleeting moments

Subject to consequence

Melt at the brink

With every transgression.

~ Procuratio ~

The sustenance of pleasure

Flows from the essence of beauty.

~ Procuratio II ~

Where charity has no measure

Providence reigns infinitely.

~ Miscellaneous ~

Generosity is not measured

By the amount you give

But by the amount

You sacrifice.

~ Proverbialis ~

To draw on happiness

In between the frames of time

Is to capture a moment

In which many are denied.

~ Babylonius ~

The faint chime of prurience

Encroaches as dusk appears

Like the susurration of a heart-beat

Eyes closed, reality disappears.

~ Axioma ~

Every feeling warrants an explanation

Like a whirlwind, emotions fumble without cause

As every word succumbs to the light

The temple of interpretation is preserved.

~ Dorma ~

Life brings only decay: so

Damn the light, the mirrored hallways

The busy streets, the abject glances

That steer all hopes away.

~ Exhortatio ~

Shame on you, fatherland

For wooing God’s trust

The glorification of conquest dangles like bait

With arms that chime a forgotten hour.

~ Neuter ~

To seek is to follow ignorance

In waiting comes the unforeseen

In forgetting the paramount is delivered

In rejecting the all-conquering imbues within.

~ Atta Kenare ~

Bruised and battered

Like rotten plums

Fallen from a great height

They crouch at the foot of the cross.

~ Crystallum ~

Riding on the carousel of deceit

Screened by the flames of unreality

Such uncharted allegories

Do youthful minds trail.

~ Pahlaviv ~

To gaze through the eyes of an emperor

To smell the orchids and touch the gold

To lose it all, life grows

Old in an instant.

~ Disfacere ~

Surrendering to an infinite power

Where strength turns to its substitute

And the frame of composure skews

Fragments may be buried, but the cycle continues.

~ Epiphania ~

When the heart and the mind

Aligns itself with each other

Life’s simple complexities

Blossom like a rare flower.

~ Intercedere ~

To lose sight of ambition

Is to draw the dagger deeper

Words never fulfil prophecies

Without the deeds to accompany.

~ Maledictio ~

The torment of a reflection

Has made its imprint

The mind seeks validation

As reasons wrestle with expectations.

~ Candidus ~

Love’s escapade

A mere fantasy

Surrendering from the womb

Tender arms embrace my kind.

~ Perfectio ~

Love is not the resounding tune of joy

But the unity of every beat.

~ Provocatio ~

Silent is the voice that speaks of loss

Still is the heart-beat that brims with fear

And empty is the mind

That demands forgiveness.

~ Rursus ~

Gone are the colours and sounds of youth

Memories cling onto every wall

Momentum of life, led by crooked steps

Finally submits to the charge of dawn.

~ Salvus ~

I am used to disappointment

What is it to wait another day?

~ Constantia ~

Faith, revisited

Heartache, my Constance.

~ Constantia II ~

The vivid gesture of victory

Flickers with pathetic clarity.

~ Atrophia ~

With every truth-bearing admission

That finds its way to heaven

Another greed-driven sentiment

Bloats the heart with questions.

~ Solus ~

Beyond the sapphire complexion

Ridden with endearment

A semblance of a fractured moment

Etches poetically into lost time.

~ Insomnia ~

Dissembling the puzzle

With tortured breath

Perpetual beginnings

Renders false destinies.

~ Desiderium ~

The silken veil ascends

Dreams left undisturbed

Bosoms still wet with dew

Masked with a scent of allure.

~ Nysa ~

Shards of light sublime

Pirouettes on the seared dunes

A matrimony of young spirits

Glide into the gleaming horizon.

~ Donatus ~

Faith tied with a ribbon

Head bowed in contemplation

As the soul searches beyond

Senses rouse frustration.

~ Eulalia ~

As hours amend each dying hour

Irrelevance blends into oblivion

In wait of an apparition beneath the moon

Consciousness wilts as desires bloom.

~ Hevel ~

Certainty ascends like a plume of smoke

Consequence bears no resemblance to hope

The gleaming peripheral allures distant glances

Bound onto ourselves with muted wishes.

~ Hyakinthos ~

Curiosity multiplies with every conquest

Yet passiveness has never strayed far

In search of another truth

This chair has never moved.

~ Arimathea ~

Daylight seeps in and fills

These walls with momentary light

The warmth becomes a memory

As dust settles on footprints.

~ Vespasanious ~

Love’s conquest lies in its defeat

Its crowning glory; a veil of absence

With confessions, soft cheeks redden

A union sealed with remembrance.

~ Zephyros ~

I can feel her breath

In every recollection

A turmoil of sentiment

Plunders inside this chrysalis.

~ Castanea ~

I turn to myself and not to God

With every anguish to Him I place

And in seeking reason

I flee from conviction.

~ Myroxylon ~

Will my ending

Extract pity or humour

Would this inevitability stem

From misunderstanding?

~ Buxus ~

Nurtured emotions

Like swollen buds

Sway in the heat

Waiting to unravel.

~ Cerasus ~

Hypnotized by cinders

Caressed by flames

Eyes sweep across

Her desert landscape.

~ Canto ~

My hands have touched God’s affinity

Yet where is the cross that bears his divinity

My flesh, an emblem

My mind, its keeper.