Window Of A Dream

Lonely flight in a mass of sky.

World apart from the art of a life 

A cut out of flesh, a yoke 

Irreparably broken 

A journey that stirs on the wings of goodbye 

The tundra of loomed silence

Separation quilted in years of refrain 

No wisdom can make sense

No road could make clear of such child like adoration 

A blind threshold of wander lust 

A fever that never breaks 

The icy chord embodies the high twilight 

Persistent iocomotion to find that window of a dream

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Eternal Lifeline

Your finger tips touched the light inside of me 

Abundant chemistry set fire beneath my feet 

Sad lines of guilt define your face 

Lips gray in stone capped shame 

You used to walk so free 

Now in a place of humility- crawling

I was the face of comfort you called on

I've become a distant borderline stranger 

Run me clean like the river that rages

Cut me down to the beauty of beginning 

I'll save you in a sailing dream 

I'll turn a cheek to your loaded gun 

I've been walking aimlessly

Grief is the aching I've known 

Thinking on that night

 I saw the kindness leave your eyes 

Dissident heart chilled the air 

You refused to hold me one last time 

What did I do

To make you so cruel 

The more love I poured out 

The thicker your shield became 

Once shared flesh 

Severed by religious grain 

Hanging hearts on lamp posts

Slaughtered in the name of holiness 

Self denial and sacrifice 

Threads woven to save a family name 

Reputation hanging in the mouth of death 

To save what's external 

Murdered love buried in soil 

For the greater eternal lifeline

Afterglow⭐️

Stuck, unmoving like the shadow in a corner 

Still waiting for the light to hit her feet 

She sleep walks in mystery 

She waits in a dreamlike place 

Eyes masked in clouds

Tears filled up with the salty sea

Spiraling down the map of the world 

Falling in love to falling apart 

Skin bruised and ashamed 

Lover's arms turn her away 

Her hope grasps for air 

She lay under the fall of autumn leaves 

The winter knows her name

The spring has lost her again 

The summer is in refrain 

Four seasons on an endless repetitive rein

Somewhere only she knows 

O' City Lights fly at such speed  

She curls a smile when the sadness hits 

She cries for the wind to carry her 

The moon holds the face of his soul in Afterglow 

The glimpse of a happy ending to reignite her heart

~k #redcoatewritings #originalPoetry

Fate of 500 miles

I don't feel right in my skin
Chilled Melon on my lips
Dazed and staring out in a  cool drift
Caught in the distant sunrise
Birds fly, rockets through the clouds and then dive
Lightning smile through a full sky of a star brigade
Heart lost in the questions of an endless night
I will always hold you but I will learn to let you go
The water makes its way round my head
Floating on the pieces of the past that keep you close
Homesick for the sound of your voice
Alone, without love to keep me safe
May the angels carry away the brokenness on their gentle wings
Resignation stills the compass of discovery
The Clockmaker stops time, He takes the story a tide away
Leaving the pain to ponder an honor of hope
Restless hands hold the daisies of daydreams
Plucking petal by petal to find where it may land
Harboring a sea of amorous thoughts
Falling into a fate of 500 miles

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Lovesick Child

Lovesick child
Lips pursed, eyes so wild
Open ended questions
Stone wall suggestions
Bright lit star
My heart searches far
Don't burn out
Feet travel en route
My chest wrapped in lace
Sweet look on your face
There's always yesterday
Purest love held will stay
Finger tip to a rose petal
Prick of crimson will settle
Candle warm in flame
Night praises his name
The hesitation in the wind
Break of fear to contend
Skin of patience is weak
It sends delay to speak
Inhale to exalted scream
Suffer to keep this dream
Let your light shine down
Lay me down in this town
Life is harsh and unkind
Leave the world behind
Fall like the rain
Promise not to refrain
Wake up to the sun
Catch me, I'm on the run
Your hands hold me still
Surrender to unseen will

VAPOR

You are a vapor that has disappeared into thin air
Your silent withdraw left me to wander without a word to spare
Misted colors of your silhouette linger above my chest
Ghostly dreams haunt the memory that will never find solace or rest
Your living will melted into a life with mine
Only to be stolen without much time
Naked in fragility and the newness of love
I awake in anxiety to find I am below, separated from your body far above
Bursting in heightened emotion of loss
Laying in a wake of desire for our paths to someday cross

Light In Your Beacon

I don't want to be the secret you keep tucked into your leaflet
I want to shine bright in your eyes without shame
To hear you say my name without pain
If I am not the light in your beacon then cast me out while I am sleeping
Shackle my feet and send me into the waters deep
There I would rather be where the waves tuck me in and the moon sings to me
Alone I will exist without harm of human touch
True love my heart will begin to resist
I will not be the one who is accused of stealing
To cause your mind to start a path of reckless feeling
Back to a life of living on empty
I do not need your pity or your sympathy
Just in need of the warmth in your chest
But you are stuck in a life further west
Don't need a promise of today
Just a hope of a future to keep my suffering at bay

Blue Sparrow

Sparrow wrapped in shades of blue
Beauty stained on every feather
Mouth full of mournful hue
Soaring across the sky of red
Heavy fall of darkened weather
Pain purges the tomb that holds what's dead
Magnificence covered up in marred scars
Cruel World in colors of cooled dissidence
Dressed in unbreakable bars
Hope laid out on every dreamt thought
Waters raise on grounds beneath
Refuge kindly refines the wings that have sought

::Parisian Dream (Scripture)::

Your love is my scripture
I seek you as the wonderment set in picture
Found in a Parisian dream, an illuminated fixture
I know my words may seem broken
But to love you is my undivided token
Louder, my heart is longing, ear blooms for endearing words to be spoken
I could stay here forever and hold you this way
Make you my home without delay
Write a song to drift off the beak of a blue jay
Chimed strings sing in the wind to carry you on my lips
Your scent remains on the flesh of my finger tips
Your eyes crash into mine and sends my body into flamed flips

::Robot Drones::

When I hold your hand the whole world disappears
My lips melt into yours
And you shelter me from
buried fears
Still the aching mind from trying to sort out the many waning years
Two lives tied up in separate times
Shuffling in the monotonous motion of robot drones
Pulling in a covering of sturdy safety from being blown
Smoke shield to hide the passion that screams out inside
Falling harder for the warmth of your touch
Unquenchable desire that begs for a world lost in you

Dust of a dream

Dust of a dream

Dirt in hand
Don't look at what is seen
But think on what hope may spring
Focus not on what has died and turned to ash
Remember you are a daughter of a king
A majestic ruler of what is unseen
Be child like in your pursuit of life
Expectations that have rotted in morose
Remove disease from your heart
Let beauty bloom in excess belief
Hear a new song of relief
He has heard your broken regrets
He is close to your lifeless body
And will lift you up in arms of strength
Carry you on to a new day
Be satisfied in the small things
Do not let hardships steal your very life away
Pack the dust of disbelief in every crack
His rain return it to mud to heal your sight
Remember his promises
Feet take flight

Beauty Born of Death

Beauty born of death,
So it is said.
Has the pain purged my soul,
Or has it grown morose instead?
Need to change or rearrange,
Sever or detach.
Seeking joy amongst the lows,
Need an awakening to catch.
Scarlet colored ravens hover,
Round my head.
Soot fills my shoes with heaviness,
An illusion births a dark night of dread.
I search for the lighthouse of heaven's door,
Turn on your gaze.
Fighting to break against the current,
Arms of grace, hold me on a lifting raise.

Savior

You are my escape when the pandemonium of life closes in
You lift every harsh word that has ever wilted my soul
You have bestowed the delicacy of a humble king
You have adorned my head with a crown of graceful kisses
You have nourished my reckoned sight back to health
You have carried me on an everlasting wing
You have covered the grief with healing oil
You have given me the sky on an unending flight
You have engraved promises on the tablets of my heart
You are the beginning and the end of me

~k

From Such Great Heights

From such greats heights
Free falling from the cloud where you left me
Fumbling towards fantasy
My hands still reaching
Chasing that one floating feather that won't allow my grasp to cradle
My letters have been left unanswered
They are lost at sea
My dreams hover above the horizon
Wings heavy but pushing against gravity
Where does this endless flight take me
Fighting for what I do not see
So much to lose but still I choose
Perched upon the shoulder of a stoic statue
Eyes pierce through every sunrise just to witness your return
I could waste these tears for many years to never see your face again
The aroma of the life of this love lingers
Just enough to hold me here
Enough to keep me at bay on your open shore
All the longing and agony would be worth it just to hold you once more

Dwelling Place

May the noise drown out the sound of my own beating heart
Cut out the delicate part
Why the end before the start?

Your subtle smile was the reckoning tool
Fell so far, hit hard like a fool
Your soft heart beckoned me, it was the strongest wave to pull

You gave me more to live for, more than you'll ever know
If I could only seek you out, my naked soul would show
My words would embrace you in a spiritual flow

This distance is death, my hands shake in a reckless pace
Your name does burn in my dwelling place
The fire is bright, it illuminates my face

~k

::You are the key::

::You are the key::

I made a habit of you
Now your absence leaves an unforgettable scar
This love went too deep, too far
Swept away by the waters emerged in your soul
Your grasp was not tight enough to keep me whole
Helplessly lost, I can not get back
I've lost the path, my mind shuffles, memories stack
I have no defense against you, lover
You held me up high like no other
Where to go now, who to be
I need some other identity
For I am lost without you
You are the key

~k #originalpoetry

Divine Light

The ground beneath is where I sink
Into a day dream of you
Rain on my lashes, I blink
Fall onto my cheek in a line or two

Arms opened in adolescent anxiety
Wanting and waning in extraordinary dance
Reaching over the noise on a hidden chance to hear your voice

I'd talk to you if only I could speak
My lips are heavy under unprecedented desire
Time decides the holy hour
When my hand touches the fibers of your flesh

Drunken mind of love soaked memory
Lilac wine lifted a thought to define
Heartbeats sailing on winds at sea
Eternity falling to the ocean floor

An anthem spread out over an open sky
Discovery of a pure whisper In my ear
Locked up tight in my chest
Never to let go of your Divine Light

~k #originalPoetry

In Another Time

Don't let all the colors fade away
Don't let the silence in the sky keep you feeling dismay
When fear comes crashing through the clouds
My voice you will hear praising you loud
You should know how heavy your presence weighs
My heart bursts and knees buckle under the clock's delays
You are a mountainous wave in which I am under
Stirred up in the curiosity of wonder
Ocean blue waters flow in your veins
The hours I stare into your sea green eyes, I want to heal your pains
I carry your tarnished heart
Meet you on the broken road that keeps us apart
Dream of a life where the days are brighter
And the melody of the music plays lighter
Where the sandy shores always reflect the glow of peace
The sunsets paint the earth in a radiant release
A place to walk and hold your hand
In another time, in some distant land

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HOPE DEFERRED

HOPE DEFERRED

Has the shine wore off,
Are you looking for the magic?

Have the stars fallen on fallow ground,
Leaving your heart like a dark canvass?

Does the sun lack in gold,
Shadows covering the brightness in your skin?

Footsteps in and out of the cold,
Soul serrated from the lack of a bird's song

The smoke breathes into your bones,
Oxygen deepens, freeing lungs from suffocation

Hope deferred makes the heart sick
Yell to the choking lies of life, let go

Take back everything you want
Fight for your dream that has been washed out in the rain

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Written by KeilaCoateWomack -all rights reserved