Poems







Time passes slowly, it is my enemy.
Colors dull and sounds distant
not even pain seems real.
An unbearable longing, how will I survive.
Will the world
stop
standing
still
for me.

Time passes quickly, it is my enemy.
Colors vibrant and sounds divine.
Even pain holds simple pleasures.
I feel it slipping away, how will I survive.
Will the world
stay
standing
still
for me.




i'm not here
because i don't know the way to laugh
the way they laugh
i didn't catch the joke
in the first place...

she's gone
and i'm still hiding
but it's MY shadow now
please...
...don't look at me like that
look at the smoke spirit drifting away from my mouth
look up at the paste-grey sky
cause that's where i'm looking
that's where i really am...

i'm not the shadow
standing before you
i'm not the one who forgot the joke..
no..
(it's only an illusion)
i use him to hide behind
look in his eyes
you won't see me there
only something slowly..
slowly..
dying






Loneliness is nothing.

Nothing is me when I am lonely.

You are everything.

Everything is me when I'm with you.

Absence is proof.

Proof is what I get when I am lonely.

So loneliness is necessary.

Necessary is what you,

become when I'm lonely.

Loneliness is something.


I'm trying to stay away
feeling hopeless today
you and your broken sun
a rather untouchable shade of gray
irrelevant pains of another
and it's all so very gray gray gray
you and your broken sun
"killing my emotion" you think
it'll all drift slowly down unmarked streets
"if you never existed I could be happy"
end to images on your screen
happy tunes of a forgoten tomorrow, yesterday, never
always so very gray
you and that broken sun
"im running away, it's better this way"
run little one run
minds -&- emotions of the uncharted scare your broken sun
I'm here though you don't want me
you don't want me to exsist but you do in me every day
always so very gray gray gray

Haikus(5-7-5)


My persistent mind
Instantiated wisdom
The sorrow of life

Imagination
Passing with the flow of time
Stark reality

Serenity's path
Forever within my soul
Life's expanding joy




lambertt@cs.unr.edu
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