Questions

What is objective truth?
Laws of science, religion, and culture
Change with each generation,
As easily as a person's mood.

In a universe where nothing is still,
Can anything truly be defined?

Question, so many questions,
Leaving nothing but more queries behind,
Each beckoning to the curious,
And those blind to the eternal scale.

Why do I try the possible?
Why will pride not allow me peace?

Is it better to be ignorant in bliss
Or to stare into the amoral soul of creation?
I cannot stop my yearning now,
For I have tasted the fruit of knowledge.

To turn away is naught but cowardice.
To submit is the path to despair.

Would I want to hold stars and sands
If such a fate is truly knowable?

Welcome to my island within the cosmos,
Where only the brilliant fool survives.

Quote of the Day- 06/16/2011

"On a Friday night, there's nothing I like better than cracking open a cool one and watching seventy two hours of brutal beatings and forced sodomy."
- Stephen Colbert

Nightwalker

Nothing is regarded with more dread
Than that which we cannot see.
When all rational thought does flee,
Only phantom and nightmare are in its stead.

The stinging stench of night's terror
Permeates chill air and smoldering soul
Gone is your illusion of control,
Boasts of courage made in knowing error.

Embrace the things you so horridly fear.
Wear cloying dark as victory's mantle.
You will find the shade's aegis most ample,
Even when the direst predators draw near.

So much of the world exists beyond sight,
So one cannot rely on the eyes alone.
That shadow's bounty has already been sown,
Waiting to be reaped by those who walk the night.

Quote of the Day- 06/15/2011

"I'd say that you were the perfect combination of imperfections. I'd say that your nose was just a little too short, your mouth just a little too wide. But yours was a face that a man could see in his dreams for the whole of his life. I'd say that you were vain, selfish, cruel, deceitful. I'd say that you were... Sibella." 
- Louis Mazzini

Quote of the Day- 06/14/2011

"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
- Sinclair Lewis

Quote of the Day- 06/13/2011

"Historically, the claim of consensus is the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."
- Michael Crichton

Quote of the Day- 06/12/2011

"Before all else, be armed."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Quote of the Day- 06/11/2011

"Not all who wander are lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkein

Quote of the Day- 06/10/2011

"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
- The Principal from "Billy Madison"

Faces of the Damned

A tune airy and mischievous plays,

Keeping us dancing all in time,

Whirling and prancing in elegant ways,

Together locked in unison sublime.

But as I spin and step with joy,

A barbed fragment cannot escape my mind.

The whole beauteous scene begins to cloy,

Gorgeous tapestry tearing at its binds.

My gaze is drawn from face to face,

And the disturbing truth is revealed.

Features obscured by masks in their place,

The souls of all left false and concealed.

With herculean effort I break from the line,

Trying to take in the growing horror.

Desperation is blooming and mine,

Like the pain of a forsaken explorer.

Where once was magnificent dance

I now see only endless pantomime,

Infinite hordes locked in trance,

Gleefully enslaved to tune and rhyme.

I am rocked and struck by the crowd,

Caught in the path of a conforming swarm.

Their unwilling ecstasy is insane and loud,

Even as their blood spills fluid and warm.

Quote of the Day- 06/09/2011

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
- Octavio Paz

Quote of the Day- 06/08/2011

"I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place.  I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy."
- Sandra Cisneros

Quote of the Day- 06/07/2011

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
- Thomas Szasz

Quote of the Day- 06/06/2011

"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Quote of the Day- 06/05/2011

"You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover all roads lead down."
- Stanislaw Lem

Quote of the Day- 06/04/2011

"Oh, you mean love?  A big lightning bolt to the heart when you can't eat and you can't work and you just run off and get married and make babies?  The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist.  What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons...you're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts, but I never forget.  I'm living like there is no tomorrow, because there isn't one."

- Don Draper.

Quote of the Day- 06/03/2011

"The devil take this predictable colon!"
- Professor Hubert Farnsworth

I Miss You

Written to answer a request for a piece about a lonely lover.


I've spent my life as a man untouched
By fear, weakness, or cowardly shame,
With heart hardened to love and much
That I took for a strong man's bane.

Then, by simple circumstance, you came to me,
A furious aphrodesian hurricane,
Within you a fire for all to see,
So much power in such a tiny frame.

You tore down my walls and left me bare,
Casting my heart into the light of the sun,
And for a moment I knew love without compare,
Giving you a victory I thought could not be won.

I stand alone amongst the rubble now,
Yearning, spent, pained, and wasted.
With what I have left I hope that somehow
Your tempest returns to see my heart sated.

I want to hate and be rid of memory,
But as I rebuild my walls ever higher,
Thoughts of you are locked in my treasury,
Forever safe from my futile ire.

Defiance

Written in response to a question about why I am so stubborn in light of the resistance I've found.

A broken man asks why
Fate seems set against him.
He fails to want to try
In the face of the world's brim.

A desperate man asks when
Will awaited salvation come.
He fails to know his ken
And will only find faith undone.

A cautious man asks how
Unknown can be illuminated.
He fails to love here and now,
Left with stale breath bated.

A defiant man ask what
He must do to weather the storm.
He fails to see invincible plot
For in hope is victory born.

Quote of the Day- 06/02/2011 (A TWO-FER!)

"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."
- H.G. Wells

"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire