Monday, June 25, 2007

Letter to Those Up in Paradise


dear . . . ,

to you who needs to forgive me,


all i needed in my life of pain

was me and my girlfriend,

but money took her away.

i'm never going to forget that day:


that morbid mindstate that it put me in.

i lost it all, boy;

my best friend, lover, brain and all

and

i think i wrote a book about it most of all.


boy, i can't see past the pain

and,

i cried so much it left a stain.

now, i'm learning

that it might not get better.


dear child, my heart won't let it.

i end up undermining the urge to go

get her.

sometimes i hear you say, "forget it";

and i stay at home.

but i'm all alone.


you, me and her, i don't want no one else.

got this vission that i'll always be by myself...

but there's one thing that

i'm hoping for,

and that's till the day

i finally shut my eyes.

child,we'll be complete in paradaise.


with love,

DM

P.S.

can you tell me what it's like there in paradise?

i wanna know what it's like there in paradise.

do they treat you well, do they recognize

that you're waiting for us there in paradise?

is it pain free there in paradise?

did you save a room for me there in paradise?

oh, damn i can't wait to leave this life,

just to be happy with us up in

paradise.


Thursday, June 14, 2007

Fishing for Happiness


His life has been,

so far,

a melody of tears...


The music of his life

has faded away ino

the pits of misery.

With every turn

and breath,

he is bruised and cut.

A pin-sized spark

swallows him as

a cloud cussions

his novelty prize.


The melody of his pearls

now haunts every

screening of his life.

He longs for the rubies

of his mines to pour out;
yet

He still casts a line

out to that sea where

no fish ever swims...

The notes of the music

of his life are too low.


His life has been,

so far,

a melody of trepidation.