Darkness Until Dawn

With a gentle, heartfelt, goodbye kiss I smile and take my leave of you Yet a piece of me shall stay to reminisce Because you’re a part of me now too. Now is not the time to grieve nor tarry Fly free, love, and find something new Yet cherish these memories we both carry And know I’m always here with you. Always remember that the sun will rise again And embrace me as we prepare to part Please smile for me as you and I end And always and forever keep an open heart I know I cannot lean hard on your shoulder With all we’ve been through it wouldn’t be fair With each moment that passes our love grows older Can we simply smile on the memories we share? I cherish the life that we had together Even after it’s done and through Look to the horizon beyond this stormy weather The light shines down to something new Love is like a kaleidoscope The swirling colors bring me hope In life, like the colors, we dance as one All just shards of the light of the sun. Goodbye, my love, we’ll meet once more We’...

 Empty space surrounds me Stretching out into the shadows The echoes are loud here. My head splitting with the sound. A yell comes back again and again to assail me. A whisper never fails to revisit me. A cry of anguish! a laugh! a lie! NOTHING dies in the echo chamber! Not even a thought. CAN YOU HEAR ME??? My voice is lost in the echoes of what you say… Long before it reaches you. As loud as I shout, you never hear my voice You say you miss me But who do you miss? You’re so fixed on your own words That I think you miss a ghost of your imagination. I am not a pawn and this is not a game to play. I scratch these words upon the walls… Even as your echoes call. Perhaps you’ll see them at last someday Long after we’re done and I’m gone away. ©️ 2024, Accountec, LLC

It rests alone in overcast fields A wisp of cloth upon the grass A breeze picks up and the cloth it steals Slipping it away like a cherished time passed   I’m wondering what the lettering might say As the wind persists to blast and blow Lifting it higher and on its way The fabric flutters, flutters, and flows   The sun’s kind rays will kiss the threads Its blessing warm and bright On cloth upon which no foot treads Just a square of red and white   The breeze must not spoil its face As it flutters so bright and gay I’m wondering where it will find its place As it flutters and flows away. ©️ 2024, Accountec, LLC

  The voice on the phone was familiar to him and still talking, but he had stopped listening several minutes ago. She obviously didn't realize this because the cadence did not change. He was far away, floating somewhere far above where he lay sprawled on the floor, his tense hand still clutching the cold receiver in some sort of karate death grip. His breaths were slow and shallow, his body motionless, and from the vacant look in his eye, one might mistake him for dead and gone. But Eddie was very much alive on a physical level, even if emotionally he was numb. He could still hear her words in the distance. He didn't really need to hear them. He knew what the message was. In some sense he had seen this coming. He never acknowledged it, of course, but the gnawing dread, the feeling of falling, had been there in the background for quite some time. The words themselves were unimportant and expected, words like "time", "space", and "different". Yet s...

I found them easily enough. In the years after I left home, I spent my time exploring the world. I had been far too sheltered for too long. I wanted to know for myself how the world worked. I know they thought they were helping me by keeping hidden away and presenting a false facade to the world. In the end they could maintain the illusion without my ever being there at all. I made the choice to be real. I made the choice to leave. Was it easier to play along? Definitely. But if you ask me if it was a mistake to leave, I’ll tell you the truth: the mistake was not leaving sooner. So I traveled (by foot) and observed the world. I took a series of odd jobs. It was amazing to truly experience life rather then be instructed on what life was like. I had heard the word “freedom” many times before but never truly knew what it felt like.  I was on my way back one day when I came upon them. It was in the old historic district, a place I sometimes visited when I was homesick. The proud old ma...

You knew… Didn’t you? You… KNEW. Long ago… Though no one knows… Buried, ancient memories Details lost, but who paid that cost? In their place, I have your face I trusted you, you knew it too if only I had known when you were the only one I could turn to You left me in the dark alone. In my darkest hour, you shamed me into silence All the days… No words to say… But you knew what you were doing. Broken tears… so many years Lost and thrown away…  The darkest days… No voice to say I couldn’t find the words You broke me down… In shame no sound… Lost and thrown away They speak your name Were they to know? The truth will flow Your lies they’ll know Your titles won’t protect you You broke me down YOU BROKE ME DOWN Regardless what you say The games you play Will fade away And in the end they’ll see Monsters cannot hide in light Soon the truth will be in sight The doctor and his degrees… You broke me down. YOU BROKE ME DOWN. The pain you wrought… for fees They know your name Do you know sham...

Water down the mountain Dripping from the snow And as the droplets gather A Stream begins to grow Slowly Ripples join each other And down and down they flow In that moment beautiful Like that crystal snow As the stream grows larger and speeds up as it goes It descends down the rapid slope And the beauty begins to show First, it takes some time to pool Gathering poise as it slows With grace it lifts from clifftop heights seeking new life down below And so it comes to freefall From those distant heights Creating its own show of hope In that early light. And now what can be seen for miles And in morning sunlight glows Is a flight of color in the air That only the heavens could truly know. ©️ 2023, Accountec, LLC