http://www.alphalux.org AlphaLux Web Domain http://www.alphalux.org/content/54 The autumn has shifted into a mode of mercilessness As I walk through the wet streets The wind twists old memories into my head The old life of a young adolescent Filled with longing thoughts and imaginations Of beautiful contours Warm attraction Innocent motives And colored lace... I walk back... http://www.alphalux.org/content/54 http://www.alphalux.org/content/53 We have all this stuff born of our needs Sent to our doors and we still can't seem to be happy I've found all the love that a love could hope for I can't give her the life that I'd like just because I am stranded... Happy with clowns that are wed to the grave Happy with tyrants who live off th... http://www.alphalux.org/content/53 http://www.alphalux.org/content/52 For my siblings who are separate It should be said to you Everything you are has come from someone or something outside of yourself Your mathematics from the Greeks Your religion from the Arabs Your language from the English Your homestead from the Natives Your family from the visions, hopes of... http://www.alphalux.org/content/52 http://www.alphalux.org/content/51 What are we going to do when there is nothing left But scattered objects Organized by size by color by thought Songs that we wrote Paintings we brought home The dust from the front porch And we leave our so-called belongings For others to seize interpret remember imbued with all of our confusio... http://www.alphalux.org/content/51 http://www.alphalux.org/content/50 Surely there must be some sort of heaven for you Flower haired and feminine Heart so full of empathy Hushing the sobs of the weary and broken Resting each head upon your breast Quieting them to sleep in the soft glowing twilight Surely there must be a place for you... With soft white feathers ... http://www.alphalux.org/content/50 http://www.alphalux.org/content/49 Volumes of knowledge drip through your fingers And are quietly funneled back to the old woodshed, overgrown with weeds and broken out windows, smelling of aged, water soaked timber And from there I observe you With every glare With every sound With every head-humming sound and heart-thumping s... http://www.alphalux.org/content/49 http://www.alphalux.org/content/48 and so I drive brushing the air pulling the light into my eyes under the endless blue the children walk swinging their sticks laughing and jumping they scatter filled with the infinite blue a shift of the wind a shift of my head and the sky shimmers and sparkles above my eyes a half-hearted ret... http://www.alphalux.org/content/48 http://www.alphalux.org/content/47 Her voice cascades across the landscape The sun sinks low beside me Shattered dreams and stolen secrets How much longer will I cry for this world? And I realize there is no place left to go I am here and My life is beautiful The clouds stream down toward the horizon Waiting for me to follow Wai... http://www.alphalux.org/content/47 http://www.alphalux.org/content/46 My friends are dead. And, of course, I don't judge the dead any differently than the living. Most of us have had the same dreams, the same hopes, the same thoughts of wonder during the frostbitten night. I sometimes find myself back in my room, peering out my window into the snow drifts, moving l... http://www.alphalux.org/content/46 http://www.alphalux.org/content/45 Cat and mouse collide Tired of this chase Wander in the night Streetlights on my face Catch yourself a ride Far away from here Walk me down the aisle Whisper in my ear Please don't wander on My sister of the sky Don't shed another tear I hate to see you cry http://www.alphalux.org/content/45