Castle In The Shadows (poetry 2014-present)

Exasperation lungs so tight heads' got an axe in the back and hurts in flight tingles come and linger tremors in my fingers people on the ringers don't understand  I can't talk for here ticks the clock and I'm such a mess an embarrassment at best sitting in this battle nest I won't rest I can't rest though I'm wheezing up a storm behind the spindle behind the wheel behind the controls ... deal with it, deal with the cards of risks of meals for me this is like being in the Navy Seals of meds and beds and pillows and shreds of glory in between gory .. damn the clock it's moving still.

I have no Q-O-L, but I can sell my shell baby rock this beat, décor under the heat gotta command this fleet ... Rubies are my blood and tears obsidian repels my fears never mind the silent jeers... they be falling on deaf ears Now you see me now you don't for I give it what they won't 'til my clock ceases to tick I be pulling another magick trick.. See white rabbits, throw your dimes 'cause my dears, it ain't no crime to be sailing to a new land - like a scurvy-ed pirate lady is this captains' hand ... but my red tweed coat says I'm free even if I crawl about  on my swollen knees, because baby, In the end, I'll feel the breeze, of the land ahoy and the treasure's tease ... and it's not for greed, no, it's the prize at the end of the voyage it's the catch at the end of the forage, and your rubies will be mine, when you are unkind  for I am a demon slayer and I...

Glimmer and glow I shall cup you in my hands though they quiver you still shine just a little thing glimmering, glowing small and fine Oh please don't fly away please be in my hands please stay and flicker and lead me to the bay where I can take the ship and be on my way Oh firefly light the way

Moonbow, from the dark I call you to come forth you're like a healing wounded lark singing whispers, facing north as an old hand drum .. quietly beats like my heart it syncopates   and syncopates like it wants to restart In the way it really must but it's riddled with toxic dust ... and in the corner there sat a dying alley cat dragged in and so cold ready to sleep  'cause it's so old .. Yes it's breath is weak and ill as there is for this cat indefinitely no more thrill in fighting for what's right when what's right dictates the quality of life .. So will it succumb to the chill? Yes it wants to and it will and so under the window sill.. you, Moonbow, must appear and please.. 'cause time is drawing near yes, time is drawing nearer and I'm standing on the peer Near the edge of the lake foreboding is the fate On this dark, foggy night Oh, Moonbow, show what's right before the lapse, before fall show you exist - and ...