Can't Beat Nature

You can't beat nature.
I should know.
I have raked it,
Worked it with a hoe,
It keeps coming back for more.
You can't beat nature.
Broke it with a shovel
It still feeds me.
Most harm is novel,
Some wounds never heal
But it compensates so well.
You can't beat nature.
Climate change is it saying,
"I'm tired of you
And I aint playing!"
You can't beat nature.
Here's your bags; start packing.
© Jerry Langdon 2018

I Feel You

Laying here next to you
Is like hot honey dew.
It trickles so sweet.
It prickles from my head to my feet.

Oh God, I feel you.
Burning in my soul
My body pays the toll.
Oh God, I feel you.

The excitement is so deep
It won't let me sleep.
I think you own me.
I will never be free.

Oh God, I feel you.
I feel my body quake.
It's more than I can take
Oh God, I feel you.

I'm burning up inside
I can't run, I can't hide.
Think I'm about to die.
Feel my soul soaring high.

Oh God, I feel you.
Laying here next to you
Hope I make it through.
Oh God, I feel you
© Jerry Langdon 2018

ELYSIUM

 

Elysium; I never thought I could be so alone.

Here I am with a heart of stone.

Petrified that my eyes will be bereft of your beauty.

Damned to mourn throughout eternity.

I stood at the grave, weeping my good-byes

But in that moment, it was me that died.

Elysium; I never thought I could be so alone.

Here I am with a heart of stone.

Sinking into the depth of dark sorrow.

Pity has replaced my bone marrow.

I feel everything but my mourn depleting.

Everyday is just yesterday repeating.

Elysium; I never thought I could be so alone.

Here I am with a heart of stone.

Shattering the windows to my dreams

While my life frays at the seams.

Heaven won't save me and Hell just don't care.

So I breathe pain like it is air.

Elysium; I never thought I could be so alone.

Here I am with a heart of stone.

© Jerry Langdon 2018

Binary Sanity

Madness is being sane;

knowing there is no cure for sanity.

Sanity is nothing more than a common lie

forming this preconceived reality.

Reality is but a mass delusion;

a lucid dream that doesn’t exist.

Naught as a grand illusion

that we can’t truly resist.

A programmed chaotic algorithm

where ones and zeros collide.

We are a binary schism

all sanity put aside.

© Jerry Langdon 2018

It's All Exempt

 

Feed you my attention

All in good intention.

Failed attempt

It's all exempt.

Your fingers twitch.

Hit the switch.

Will off,

Kill off,

Annihilate me.

Set my pain free.

Wrong, right?

Why do I fight?

Failure is assured.

Take my word.

Feed you my affection.

Feel only rejection.

Failed attempt

It's all exempt.

Things have gone awry.

Scattered to the sky.

Will off,

Kill off,

Annihilate me.

Set my pain free.

Will I ever learn

Or just crash and burn?

Oh well

That's Hell.

Failure is assured.

Take my word.

© Jerry Langdon 2017

Greedy Me

 

You drive me to fiery

I lose control

You make me hungry

Feed my soul

You give me so much

Enough to light the furnace

But when we touch

We just scratch the surface

So give me what I need

Come on just bleed

You can call it greed

But I have to feed

I scavage every bite

I can get of you

I salvage every second of night

I have tasted with you

Because of you, I'm living

You are what I'm about

I know you keep giving

But I feel you holding out

So give me what I need

Come on just bleed

You can call it greed

But I have to feed

We stoke the furnace

But we are just scratching the surface

So give me what I need

Come on just bleed

You are what I'm about

But I feel you holding out

You can call it greed

But I have to feed

© Jerry Langdon 2017

The Forgotten One

The Forgotten One

Put aside

A blank page

Left blank by your hand.

I'm the forgotten one.

The damage has been done.

Put in the sand

Awakened my rage.

Broke inside.

I'm the exiled son;

I'm the forgotten one.

When I thought I would crash

I started to climb out of the ash.

Did you ever hear thunder?

It was probably me going under.

Buried deep

A safe place

Left safe from your love.

I'm the forgotten one.

The damage has been done.

I took the shove

Shovel to the face.

Buried deep.

I'm the exiled son.

I'm the forgotten one.

Now I've made it out.

Now hear me shout.

© Jerry Langdon 2017