Death smiled Shyly.

Death smiled shyly.  __________________  I've never reversed a 45  but I've stared down the  barrel of a .45,  and grinned like a madman  in the face of death;  Death smiled back shyly,  but didn't say much.  (since death is more a thing  of action than angel  of senseless words.)  I've borrowed time,  (that I never intended to  pay back)  and even taken out  mortgages on my  Soul.  But until Now,  (this moment)  Love has never  made me wish  to feel more Whole.  Are you the .45  I stare at half-mad,  with desperation  in my Heart?  Or just another whisper  in My Head of Constant Art?>  j.s.h.

Funny. (in a sad way.)

Funny.( in a Sad Way.)
____________

She still asks me to
be more Patient;
(and still I wish more
Patience would hurry)
then laughs like nothing
in this world is ever worth
the worry.

It's funny,
(in a sad way)
how Tomorrow
will be spent;..
(remembering scenes
from Yesterday)
wondering if
it would be better to
Laugh, or let My
Weary Heart Lament!

(Feeling Absent from
the Light of Grace.)

I ask her to hurry,..
she says:" be patient!"
and still I marvel how
she never worries.

(about the way her
last day went.)

Funny in a sad way,
Yeah,..
story of my Life.

Funny how I Fan
The Raging Flames,..
and ignored The Face
Of Paradise!

(Murdered in
Her Angel Eyes.)

j.s.h.

Wandering This Wilderness Wild.

Wandering this Wilderness Wild.
__________________

As a Kid
I feared Sleep,..
assuming that
each Night
The Cold Hands
OF Death would
be upon Me;
pulling me into
a Nightmare Land,
with No One Left.

(to Hear Me
Scream.)
_

Imagine being
The Last Child,
Lost in an Endless
Wilderness Wild;
searching The
Darkness for A
Friend.

(yet finding only
Hope Defiled.)
_

I Prayed to Angels
Twice a Day, and asked
if I could stay Awake;
but These Midnight Devils
stalked My Dreams!

(as The Stars Stood
Laughing in My Face.)
_

Thus each
Night I Fall
Asleep..

(and Die.)

Remembering
That Precocious
Child.

Unable to
Hope,
or Dream,..
or Cry!!

(still Wandering
This Wilderness
Wild.)

J.Stephen.H.

I plucked a diamond from my side.

I plucked a diamond from my side. 
__________________________ 

It's interesting how one 
can choose to perceive 
the mote in their eye 
to be a precious ruby; 
such is the nature of denial! 

As Hope becomes a
desert barren, 
with Love the Souls 
unwanted duty! 

(and Death a Welcomed 
Smile.) 

I plucked a Diamond from 
my side, and traded it 
to the Rose Merchant 
for a Thorn. 

He asked me if I'd lost 
my mind. 

(I replied that it had 
since been taken, long 
before the world was 
born.) 

Then, laughing in the 
sad face of my One and 
Only; 
I packed a bag of useless 
rags, and wandered into 
the Desert Lonely. 

(in search of what I've 
Always had.) 

Is it not interesting friend? 
How one can thus perceive the 
mote within their eye to be 
a ruby? 

Or consider love the End! 

(and Death the souls Lone 
Duty.) 

J.Stephen.H. 

A Life of Better Lines

A Life of Better Lines.
_________________

It feels as though
I've lived these
songs before:
Break on through,
(to the otherside)
Hells Bells!
No More Tears...
(knocking on
Heavens Door.)

They are a part
of youth mispent
living out Wasted
Dreams.

(which mean absolutely
nothing Anymore.)

I see A Bad
Moon Rising;
over this desolate,
Black Horizon!
where the days seems
swallowed up
By Endless Night,
filled with the
screams of
desperate crying!

(and Hope no
longer seems
within My Sight.)

I fell into a
Burning Ring
Of Fire,
created by the
deeds I've done
On Earth;
as joy and
mirth were
fed to Heartless
Vampires!

(and Love itself
was but a Foolish
Curse.)

Oh, If I could
Turn back Time,
and find a way
to brighten
up this Place;
I would Live a
Life of Better
Lines!

How Great
Thou Art!

(Amazing grace.)

J.Stephen.H.

Staring Into The Face Of Midnight.

Staring into The Face of Midnight.
___________________________

Staring into the
Face of Midnight,
my wanting heart
hopes the
Sun will Rise;

So that  I may
share
with you (alone)
True Loves
Delight!

(ignited by the
mysteries in your
Eyes.)

A Whisper in
your dark produces
Thunder,..
which reveals
within my Head
Gods hidden Light;
so even if By Hell
I'm pulled
asunder,
it would seem like
Heaven.
(with an Angel
by my side.)

My Laughter breaks
the Face
of Midnight,
revealing in my
Heart A
Constant Sun;

and I'm empowered
by your
Smile of Loves Delight.

(which to me
will always
be the Only One.)

J.Stephen.H.

The Tides.

The Tides have it In For Me.
________________

I know the tides have it in for me.
Those Henchman working for The
Sea of Destiny.

Yet I do not cower before their strength;
nor stand in awe of their supposed
Majesty.

For I know at Dawn They Break ,
and have many time since fled from me!

I see chaos in the waves, consuming
the lost,and desperate Faces of Yesterday.

Some pray fiercely to be saved!
while other ignite Hells' Raging Flames.
(ironically fearing evil working
in every place.)

The Tides have it in for everyone.
Those henchmen of fate who Rule
the moon, and contest the Rising Son!

Yet I do not cower before their
strength, nor fight against the waves.

For I know at Dawn They will Break!
(and My Battle Here shall be Won.)

J.Stephen.H.