DreamCrasher

A Dream Catcher hangs above my head at night
A Web woven to catch my good dreams
Let the bad ones fly right through

It never worked.
I still have Bad Dreams
And can't seem to remember the Good Ones
Come Morning.....
I should have gotten my money back...

Now what hangs Over my Head
More Prominently,
Is the very plain fact
That I am a Dream Crasher

I take something Precious to someone else
Inspect it, Judge it and hand it Back
Crumbled, Revealed, Explained away
Crashed

I'm a Dream Crasher
No room in the neighborhood
For the likes of me........
Dream Crasher.....
Pain, Shame and Reproach
These are my Rewards
DreamCrasher,
That's me......

(c)2008jsblankenship

Veil

Behind,
I
Only
Want

This Veil
Only Hides
From me

How
This Veil,
Will Take On
Of a Thousand Wings,

The Protection
I Crave
To Light my Way

But Do I Fan These Wings
the Only Light
The only Hope
I Have Truth.

(c)2008jsblankenship

Get There

I want to get there with you
I know you climbed faster than me
I can only go as fast as this ole heart of mine will allow

There, is the Truth
There, is Calling
I'm just running out of Breath
I need Water and Rest
And Clear thinking,
Feeling

Throw me A line?
No, I guess I have to get There
on my Own Strength
Or I won't really be There At all,
Again........

An Ember

Fire,
It starts as a Spark
Depending on the Conditions around
That spark can Catch and Spread
Like Wild
And Ignite everything around.

Its unstoppable once Begun
If Conditions are Wet
Like after a Rain,
The Spark might not Catch
or May snuff Out
Quite Quickly.

Hard Work,
Cold Nights,
Stiff Hands,
Nimble Fingers
Frozen,
Numb...............

But Once its starts.........
Magical...
See it in your Eyes,
Burning the Blue and Lager-Brown
Burn the Truth into your hide.....
So to Hide is No Longer what you need.

Burn, Burn So Bright
That I can Find you........
You can Find You......
After all the Storms
Have quieted Away
After all...........
Burn Brightest
For you

(c)2008jsblankenship

If Anyone....

Tells me I'm just Human
One more Time,
I just may raise up my head
And breathe Fire on them.......

If Anyone were to tell me
That I would be here Today
I would have laughed them off
As Insane

If Anyone knows
The Pain I have caused
Would you please come
Rip my Heart out

If Anyone could even Guess
How Sad you can be
by Causing such Pain
Inside and Out
Would they Ever............?

I spread my infection
To innocent souls
Cast Lots for my Heart
And Gambled Away your Souls

If Anyone Could tell You
How Sorry I am
They would Obviously
Hold the Gift of Angels Voices

I'm afraid I don't hear any singing..........

(c)2008jsblankenship

Depression Glass Canister

Depression Glass.
Appropriate...
Pink with delicate etchings
42 years at its youngest

For a baby's room
My room
Its been with me that long....
So delicate, so capable
Like the cotton it held inside.

Filling it up again tonight
For the thousandth thousandth time,
I broke it
Shattered it to the floor
And with it came my tears.

It symbolized so much for me
About what I love and what I want
Gone, that's it
Beyond repair
Another piece of my life is gone

Why everything precious to me
Do I hurt or break or lose?
'...What is it in me that refuses to believe,
this isn't easier than the real thing?...'
I still can't process that line,
after 10 years of hearing her sing it
I have a mental block.

Do I have a cardiac block as well?
Am I beyond repair? Is this?
Has it shattered to the ground?
I know the words are shit
And actions are truer than thoughts
But I had even stopped talking to myself
And that truly is a shattered existance for me.
I can't live without my words
Can you live with them ?
A balance is all I ask, so what's precious inside my shadows
Doesn't tip the edge and fall........