Life’s Vacuum

Life does not occur in a vacuum

We deliberate

We discuss

Evaluate

Concentrate

On what we can fix

What we can not

Holding hope 

While tying the knot

We know not the direction the wind blows

But hold on to hope 

Try to let it grow

In a real world

That we all know

Diplomat Wheels

Run and duck

We may be stuck

Diplomatic wheels turning

Engine burning

We run low on gas 

Late on details

It seems if the cart shakes

More

We will be off the rails

So we shimmy on

On and on

We

Plug along

Towers Amidst Rotten Fields

The seeds of truth

Lie amongst the fields of lies

Not that we can not discover

But we must earnestly try

While a towering bell lingers

Subtle in the distance

Keeping time on us watching for

Ever instance

In sweet imperfect harmony

With the world that toils around

What we have lost

We have yet to be found

But in time truth will grow

To tower well above the rotten fields

To bring life again to the weaklings

My hope lies in such trees that grow

Along the roads we travel

The roads we have forged

Trees will rise up

Giving us protection from the lies

 

Whole Intentions

Whole intentions 

Viewer retention

I have lost my connection

To popular direction

So I sit with pen in hand

Coffee at side

Seems this detour was more than

A simple joy ride

Roses and palm trees

Laced with every temptation

How could we resist

A simple will of gratification

Stand and sit

Sleep and rest

So it again

Resilience is our test

Venice Coffee

Coffee in Venice

On the streets of LA

Caffeine buzz on the way

Open skies from open industrial canyons

Wall brushed with soft crayons

A mix of intellectual and visual

Harmonies 

In lines of different tones and colors

Every world represented here

Music bass traps through the hall

While baristas subtlety call

The next customer 

Transaction 

To your complete

Satisfaction

The Industrial Coffee Machine

Boom 

Clack

Psssssssttttt

Smack

Click

Ding

Espresso

Doom…clack…doom…clack…

The music burns the air

Down the conveyor

Dancing swirling

White shoes on concrete floors

Exposed raw steel constrains the space

Wood beams pop out 

The swell on conversations mellow out

With every drink served

Waking up a city

While The OK king is sitting on the curb

Wrapped Up in Humanity

From east to west

Uneasy unrest

Wrapped up in humanity

Inhumanity

Lies become truth

Truth become lies

We have lost our ability to decipher the truth

And don’t care to sympathize

From the low to the highs

I hope we can somehow discover the truth

Realize

Banter from true lies

But it takes the average citizens to get involved

Even though our whole worlds have revolved

Around disorientation

It must stop and we must begin

People acting in collaboration is when people win