Tick Tick

Tick Tick

Tick, tick, tick.
Sounds of mechanical components
Moving along their way
No say to how they move
No way to stop.

Tick, tick, tick.
To hear that movement
And to say other
Is to lie.

Tick, tick, tick.
I hear those sounds
And I fear
Progress of time
I fear my ultimate demise.

Tick, tick, tick.
Or are gears shifting
Into place
A final resting template.

Tick, tick, tock.

6/3/21 โ€“ Andy McRae

Ribbons

Ribbons

Ribbon tied in bows on a skeletal frame
Fingers pull on the ribbons
Twisting them this way and that
Just to watch the skeletal being dance.

Dancing all night long Iโ€™m tired to the bone
These wires sticking from me itch
Longing for more, know there is so
I sever the cords that bind me
To those puppeteers behind the curtains.

Fluttering, several severed ribbons
In the wind, colors of a deep rainbow.

6/6/21 โ€“ Andy McRae

Abyss

Abyss

Plunge into a bottomless pit
Down deep into fathoms unknown
Forever falling, falling, falling
Farther down into the darkness
Crystal cries muffled on dank walls
The world above grows dimmer
As time goes on, soon all that is left
Is the pit, this purgatory of falling
A wish for a floor nonexistent
A hope driving existence.

6/1/21 โ€“ Andy McRae

MIRAGE OF SAND

MIRAGE OF SAND

surroundings of embankments of red sand
I grasp it in my hand watching as every grain
runs through my fingers like molecules of liquid

worn by winds filled with sand and rock
alone I rock, back and forth, and I begin to cry
why? does nothing last? can I not pick up
and hold you one last time, but alas
like the sands in this desert, or in time
you just seem to slip right out of my arms.

in this desert I weep for you there is no real
way for me hold you again, so a mirage will do.

05/22/21 โ€“ Andy McRae

The Man Who Still Wakes

The Man Who Still Wakes

I find that I am at a crossroads.
A beast with two heads,
One rests while the other is in glow.
An impulsive lad with no brakes
A drunken man has no legs.
A conversion with pain
Takes your breath away.

Villainous desires,
Plague the fire
The burning of the sheets.
Erased from the banks
A toll has been taken upon me.
Now these scars are all that remains
Of a story once worth telling,
Now become my standard beat.

The water trickling down his cheek,
Enough to make the weak break.
Yet still he rises from the bed
To make another history,
To tell the world at his wake.

And the earth shall quake.

	- Andy McRae

This an old one. Either from college or High School, not sure which.