Earth

Earth

Ambition misguided
Fear of failure
Desire to protect
However possible

A heart made stoic
By concern contained
A heart made silent
By a mission to learn

Breaking from battle to battle
Through the barriers within
Racing against the lesson
The lesson left unlearned

The earth breaks down upon
The untold truth
Chipping away at layers of deceit
Through chasms of poison

The earth breaks away
Losing more of himself
As he gains more of himself
His battle revealing

The earth breaks to nothing
But a lingering will
Existing in anguish
The pain of guilt never ending

Water

Water

A love too true
To lose to darkness
A song too strong
To drown in silence

A heart made strong
But in need of answers
A friend forever
Against the encroaching darkness

Flowing from home to home
For others still fighting
Against the unrelenting
Against the unforgiving

The water flows swift
But too often a tide behind
Stopping to help in the struggles of others
Putting aside personal anxieties

The water flows under
Raising up those that would otherwise sink
Into depths from which
There is no return

The water flows away
Sacrificing her place in the light
Away from her hope
Until she hears his name

Wind

Wind

An innocent heart left fractured
By another's ambition
An innocent heart made whole
By another's destiny

A heart made whole
But left seeking
Forgotten truth
In a broken chain of memories

Flying from step to step
Along the perilous path of fate
Unseen strings
Malevolent puppeteer

The wind blows lost
All the way back home
Brushed aside upon arrival
Falling into darkness discovered

The wind blows with fury
In the face of fate
Against a destiny chosen for him
Reclaiming the inevitable

The wind dies down
Tired from his turmoil
Tired beyond awakening
Awaiting another's destiny

Trapped

Words scraping the inside of the skull
A message massaging the heart into a relaxed rhythm
A need to speak speeding it back up again

As these words flow
From pen to paper

Heart to surface

Ink to reason

He must write

He must

Individuality's Window Never Closes

Visual proclivities
Obscuring my reality
Obstructing what is real
What is true
What I feel

What is pretty
Is pretty feeling
But why not appreciate
The temporary
Don't think of it
As what will never be forever
But instead as what was only once
And will never be again

You're one in a million
A billion
A trillion
For however long that lasts on the outside
It will be forever true on the inside

This one's for you
The one who stays true
To who
Who you are through
And through