Is It Any Wonder?

All this body does endure

Loss and pain forevermore

Just one error that I do make

Is this body for me I take

Charge of the I Brigade

Be it prescience or fate

Attraction’s law or date

Never confirmed outside

For it is not ours to reason why

Hold I

Nothing else comes close

To bringing you to what you seek the most

Grim Mornings

Hard awakening

From the east

Is something I can count on

At least

Heart Habit to Break

Longing only keeps it away

So I’ll get it from

What’s always here

Anyway

Turkey for None

The loneliness of this life

Reminds me to turn back to I

And that everything is alright

Even how much I resist and deny

What Really Matters

My world shudders on

To poverty, misfortune

But whether I’m the cause or not

Consciousness will be there

Eternally, one

Eleven Eleven

She loved me once

But no longer see

A woman’s love

Is conditionally

At least for me

How to Tell if The World is Real

What changes cannot be

Only the changeless is reality

I Can’t Win

When one can’t seem to get

Despite trial, tribulation

Insight, consultation

Then all that’s left is to inquire yet:

To whom comes all this frustration?

Bagworm Tree

Letting go might cause more ill

But not doing so certainly will

Just a Dream

What else can you say

To that which so rarely

Gives you what you really want?

Consciousness Itself

The only way to be truly happy

Is to base your happiness

On what can never be taken from you

Because even if it was
You wouldn't know it anyway

Where the Sun No Longer Shines

You ruin the past

With blackened glow

Gone beyond all reason

For you left long ago

A Curse Upon This World

Life’s crappy ways

And I wonder why

Suffer eternally

Until I go back to I

Time Traveler

Throughout the years
So much that's seen
It helps to notice
You've always been

The Rainiest Summer

Release brings forth pain

As one clings to home

Peace, freedom to roam

Comfort sustained

But you can’t stop the rain

When Bad Dreams Come True

Makes one wonder

Despite happiness yearned

Why bad folk say they’re leaving

Only to return

Magic I

Gaze at the world

Knowing clear

To watch it unfold

And be free from fear

I, beyond

Such limitation

Shows

That beyond this body

Who knows?

Knock on Wood

No one knows why things resolve

Or what does really cause them

A changing world sure gives one pause

But isn’t always the problem

When the Tide Comes

I could let my guard down
But then
Something bad always happens
In the end

Happiness is a Quiet Mind

Those Voices

Many rattle my heart, you see

But few point to serenity

If I die before I wake

Perhaps my troubles the Lord will take

The Golden Fool

What you won’t for me

I would for you

Though fighting fear

Makes me the fool

With silence near

And forever free

Whole and not alone

Back to where the sun once shone

In Saturn Retrograde

I could sob at rain’s falling

Or the drowning of the leaves

I could wail at Dan’s demise

But there’s more to that than me

Say It Ain’t So

Oh great Lord

Do take your sword

And stab away my heart

For love shan’t return

But instead dark burns

Should’ve been removed from the start

Hold I for Quiet

Throughout the years

I can’t deny

That all goes quiet

When I Hold I

The Doorway to Hell

The noisy ones outside my door

May have unfortunate time for me in store

Until I remember once more:

Who was I before this world

And this life of mine unfurled

A Curse Upon All Gnats

Allergies, exes, noises, bugs

Yet Rocky-me still gets no love

When the world seems to make it hard

The only choice is to turn to God

For the greatest truth one can find

Is in the quiet clarity of Holding I

I Know Exactly What You Think of Me

Pain comes forth

Again

From the growing things

And knowing my life’s end

No longer friends
Pain comes forth

You chose another

And took my life’s worth

Spring is in the Aries

The only relief

I’ve found

Is to let all feelings arise

To and fro

Both high and low

Up from the ground

Dances with Scorpios No More

Your shadows beckoned and powers rose

To make my heart burst through my clothes

Oh, we loved, eternal it seemed

Though your stings did drown out my screams

Then your need for me vanished, friend

Though I was last to realize its end

Perhaps such sirens were thrilling before

But this one dances with Scorpios no more

In Praise of Odin

Such fear, such worry

Until it occurred

Odin’s taking him down

Let him, hurry

Inside of You

Lonely is the life
When you wake again alone
But feeling like you have
Can fulfill it all its own

Lonely is the life
Can’t get what you want, 'tis true
But the joy that you're seeking
Is just inside of you

Minnesota Dreams

From soul to soul

My heart can speak

But who’s the one

Who controls reality?

What Makes the World Go Round

Life can be faith or fate

Or intension-will the stronger

But if you be who you really are

Then you will suffer no longer

Farewell

Finally, it dawned upon him in this endeavor

That he had to drop his feelings

For whats-her-name and whoever

Otherwise, he’d suffer forever

God is Fact, not Faith

Consciousness, Supreme Being

What else is always there for you

Through which all things arise

No matter what?

God's Dan

I watch the world and this body too

And wonder at the cause of all I do

Happy Present Is Day Eve

When the world looks empty

And your heart runs dry

Ask to whom does this come

And who am I?

Strangers We've Become

Those of us who dwell in loss in love

Can only return to the absolute

Above

Waving Goodbye

I stopped and watched the mind’s waves

And they grew calm

No longer lies I’ll get what I crave

Dropped and gone beyond

The Dan Who Sold the World II

When you may find

You suffer through your mind

Then you can see

The truth may be

And die to sweetest apathy

Why Things Turn Out The Way They Do

See, stumble, tailspin, faster

Why can’t he seem to get what he’s after

Faster, tailspin, stumble, see

World or himself that sabotages he?

The Way Home

Such seeking for pieces outside

When there’s already such peace within

That Part of Me

That part of me

I don’t want to see

Alone forever, no love to be

Impoverished, failed, unsupported

Despite every plea

So I fight it no more

And perhaps be free 

A Dan of Constant Sorrow

He can't control his life
But he can sure screw it up
Right?