Elusive

Meandering dreams

Believed to be

Only dreams

Cascade uninterrupted

Without concern

Stealing reality, holding

Perceptions at bay

Looming, hiding

Unable to wake

Overhauled, spent

Thoughts conversing

Without consent

Holding court

Under false pretense

Conniving, forbidding

Hope's will.

Edwin James

...

 

Skyward

His mind wanes
No longer in chains

What I am is who I am

A tempered man

Following his dreams

A confidence gleams

His mind immersed
No longer cursed

Once held captive by time

Now versed in rhyme
No longer tarnished

By tattoos banished

Within hallow crevices

Or by altering sketches
His mind reset ready
Unafraid or in a hurry.

Edwin James

...

Overburden Wind

The wind unfurled

Down the winding

Road without colour

Its breath fatigued

Ruptured over time

Blinded by desert storms

Devastated by hurricanes

Withered, parched in

Drought bearing

Sadness, hopelessness

Yet this same wind has

Witnessed the warmth

Of friends and victory
Bringing hope where
There was none, a
Wind without incident

A caring breeze without

Suffering, prejudice, a

Bitter-sweet wind

Inhaling our Fate.

Edwin James

...