The Art of Matthew Warlick

and just like that
it’s over for one and all
another door closed
at the end of a long hall

too late now to back out
to sing praises
to someone who doesn’t
who can’t
who never could

listen

to the sounds of life
of love
of happiness

the glowing
wreckless
careening
spinning
spiraling
freefall bungy jump
that is this walk we call life

we follow the path
and make faces
hold hands
point fingers
whisper secrets
lose friends
gain enemies

all just in time
to get called inside
up the long stairs
down the long hall

and back into freefall

There is a place
Just before you fall asleep
and just before you wake
where the world becomes fuzzy

unreal
intangible

a place where there is no you
a place where there is no I
a place that just is

nothing but a sea of information
and you are the observer
riding the waves of consciousness
collapsing with every observation
the very fabric of this being

No haikus this time
Only those things left unsaid
Broken like always

We are all victims
in this kaleidescopic
universe of love

There is no answer
There is only the question
Truth does not exist

once upon a night
we were something else in time
perhaps cats even

but this is here, now
we cannot be, you’re the moon
and I am the sun

when gravity fails
somewhere down this cosmic road
we shall meet again

the distance to here
is not so much about us
as it is bout’ you

make reality
in your image of wanting
because this is real

The only lines drawn
Are the ones you make yourself
Step out of your lie

let slip the dogs of
whatever war we see fit
for this is the truth

once as one
and once as nothing at all
truth, real truth, is love

My Soulcore pours forth
Disenchanting visions cease
To be all I know

At once alone and
At once at one with it all
This life is priceless

Trapped in illusion
We may reach towards that goal
To see truth in lies

The sweets not as sweet
Without the bitter sting of
Those things we desire

When faced with the choice
Do we choose to see the truth
In the illusion

let slip by the day
always too busy to play
soulmates seldom are

more random chaos
order from within the void
we are all we have

these moments make us
don’t be afriad to look up
reach for your halo

yellow to the core
a one way mirror of soul
throw open the sun

The rhythm pervades
Its beat permeates all things
Even your heartbeat

Programmed for this track
Your soul knows how the groove goes
Just play, set it free

The good’s only as good
As the chain’s most fragile link
Trust is all there is

Struggling for a voice
I must scream but have no tongue
This pain consumes me

When passion is lost
What sway does truth hold on us
We must learn from pain

We grow thanks to it
That which does not puncture through
Makes our skins thicker

Twist the words
Towards your own selfish means
Until truth ceases

I only regret
The undertakings halted
Karma, she’s a bitch

Hollow it must feel
Hope your abuse of power
Fulfils you somehow

the void begins us
everything and nothing
the void reclaims us

I love you has changed
At your request and not mine
You choose all you are

I love you seems less
Through a haze of discontent
Unique, like the rest

It will stay this way
Forever, if I let it
Wish you’d prove me wrong

I pine from afar
Know that I love you forever
sleep, perchance to dream

so hard to give love
when one doesn’t love themselves
no truth, only lies

time is not for real
my soulcore will be reborn
in some other life

and when you see me
you will know me forever
love is not enough

When next you see me
I will be forever gone
My soulcore weeps not

Dead as dead can be
Always hurt the ones you love
Till’ you love yourself

Don’t ever play dead
Inside we must all learn, grow
If we hope to be