Soundless garden

The word noose hung in my head

Another dead

                        body

                                    sways

goes away

A pretty pendulum taut under a knot beam

strong enough

I cannot convince myself

Ends are here

                        I feel them approach nearer

draws on

a bead

my unknown heart

my heavy hit

                        ear drums

                        top snares

his rhythm speaks to me

                        alone-

                        who left-

                        who-

Speak up, I’ll clap my bones,

bang my head

until I snap

off

my fate

my wave

                       crashes.

On May 17^th Chris Cornell, an American musician and artist, took his own life-and his art-leaving behind a dear family, a large extended family, close and distant friends and fans that span generations, leaving us all to thrash in the crashing waves of his music awaiting a sense of full color sunset on his vivid passionate life. I hope he may be resting peacefully. 

Painting by Albert Joseph Moore [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

An Other Song on the Jukebox Baby

Today seems like a good day to burn a bridge or two.

The sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it.

In California with my toes in the sand, head in the clouds but my gravity centered,

‘Cause I’m sick of not living to stay alive.

And I’m just a student of the game they taught me-

Maybe I’m a different breed. Maybe I’m not listening.

Breathe out so I can breathe you in…

We will burn inside the fire of a thousand suns!

…but everything looks perfect from far away, Come down now,” but we’ll stay.

And what about your soul? Is it cold? Is it straight from the mold and ready to be sold?

Just a drop of water in an endless sea...

It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right. I hope you had the time of your life.

Lyric song/artist credits by line:

1. Beautiful Disaster/311

2. Wish you were Here/Incubus

3. The Neighborhood/Sweater Weather

4. All I Want/Offspring

5. When they come for me/Linkin Park

6. AWOLNation/ Sail

7. Foo Fighters/Everlong

8. Requiem/Linkin Park

9. Great Heights/Postal Service

10. Jack Johnson/Gone

11. Kansas/Dust in the Wind

12. Time of your life/Green Day

Image By Highsmith, Carol M. (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011630479/) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, described as Juke box museum in Texas.