To the demon

My life is like a movie in vivid all-spectrum color
A hailstorm of emotions
Beating me down
Tearing a hole in the sky
A demon crouches looking me in the eye
But I've seen the faces in the sand
The warriors before me who've been beckoning me
Since I first touched my wet feet to the floor
Who do you think you are


The tips of my feet graze the treetops
And I am in flight once again
This is my time of freedom
You hate that in the dream
When I know it's real
So you find a crack in reality
And reach through your dry ashen talon
Tugging at the seam of the breaking day
Thinking you've torn me apart at my core
Then the light pours in again
And I drop to the floor
Who did you think you were looking for

I'm not at all who you thought I'd be
Slithering pestilence nipping at my heels
Ever wanting and pressing against the glass cage
You can see everything I see
Go ahead
Break free
Or are you willing to admit
That you could never walk side by side with me
I AM everything you can never be
That is why you trudge and fall
Face truth and withstand the storm
Knowing no hand will ever reach out
To break your fall
You turn to me and give me blame
SHRIEKING and panting and thrashing 'round
Yet......inside this madness


I HEAR NO SOUND


Only grace
As the sun kisses my streaked face
I know
You were only ever there to comfort me
When I feel I've lost my way
When my world starts crashing down
You are my perfect embrace
Because I can see through your eyes and know
Life can only be savored by the chosen few
I hold what is both old and new
Familiar blood rushes forcefully through these veins
And you begin to disappear
Disappear......softer now with barely a face
I am no longer a puppet in your play
I have become the hero of the day
Who did you think you were


THIS IS MY HALLOWED PLACE.