My Gaze in Spectral

My Gaze in Spectral 

In the darkness it dwells
The visions and spells
Cast upon my gaze
That put my head in this daze

Look there is the spectral past
Shadows laid by the gleaming cast
Sight deceiving, my mind believing
Out in that bleakness, a thieving.

Beyond the layered mast
That I have laid in thus past
I bear down my soul
These images have taken their toll.

11/20/21 – Andy McRae

Shadows and Sticks

Me Reading the Poem
Shadows and Sticks

caffeine hyperdrive
a manic stuck on auto drive
retrograde mental projections
back turned, I left in rejection
illusions weaved in my mind eye
forsaken by the very reality, I
a world of shadows and sticks
bending the truth, as the candle
	burns down to the wick
                I feel sick

10/18/21 – Andy McRae