Ashes Consume

“Ashes Consume” 

  

 Not sure how to look up,

At the barrels bottom.

Maybe there’s an answer,

I can’t fathom.

Tomorrow is void,

Hope is empty,

With no coming resurrection,

Of me.

  

Maybe I’ve run out,

Of imagination.

Perhaps I’ve fallen,

To degradation.

  

I don’t dream,

Anymore.

Ashes consume,

All before.

  

Dg

Danny Gunter

12/29/2012

The Test

The Test

Seven years, does that make it a sketch,

A photo or a statue?

I am still soul searching,

After you.

We cling to what we believe,

In our belief sometimes,

There is simply no way,

To retrieve.

There is no balance,

Of the right and the wrong.

And just sometimes it leaves us,

With no place to belong.

I am so tired,

Ready to rest.

Have I not answered all the questions,

Of the test?

 Dg

Danny Gunter

11/26/2012

What Do You Choose?

"What Do You Choose?"

The dealer’s on his side.

You on yours.

Down to your last dollar.

What do you choose?

When I say last.

I mean very last.

The other dollars gambled away,

In a darkened past.

This last dollar,

It’s enough to get you by.

Then again.

There are a lot of memories stuck to it,

That still make you cry.

Do you throw it on the table?

Just let it go?

But it’s your very last dollar.

Somehow you just know.

The dealer’s on his side.

You on yours.

Down to your last dollar.

What do you choose?

Dg

Danny Gunter

07/16/2006

Deflated

“Deflated”

  

Deflated.

Crushed I gasp for air.

Can’t scream or speak,

Hope can’t make it right or fair.

  

While I struggle and gasp,

I wonder dis you really care at all.

I mean I’ve fallen the fall,

Bled on the concrete and walls.

     

Deflated.

I’m all out of air.

My eyes, my lips, must be blue,

Hope can’t make it right or fair.

    

I’m all out of air.

My heart won’t fill, is it related?

My lungs won’t fill.

Worn out, 

Deflated.

    

Dg

Danny Gunter

09/24/2012

As Time Was Building Tears

“As Time Was Building Tears”

We all make mistakes,

All of us do.

Why end us like that?

I ask of you.

  

I can remember the day I met you,

With crystal clarity.

I guess you never really understood,

How much it frightened me.

To fall so hard,

So fast.

I only let you in because,

I really believed it would last.

I believed us to be happy,

Down through our years.

All the while my eyes were merely dams,

As time was building tears.

Miles of salt water rivers,

I never in my heart knew I’d cry.

I never knew my hopes were in a noose,

Just waiting to die.

We all make mistakes,

All of us do.

Why end us like that?

I ask of you.

Dg

Danny Gunter

03 04 08

I Don’t Have It In Me

“I Don’t Have It In Me”

  

I don’t have it in me,

I never did,

Inside an exaggeration of strength,

Is where I hid.

I don’t have it in me,

I’m broken beyond reason.

And there will not be a spring,

In any coming season.

I don’t have it in me,

There will be no light in the coming dawn,

There is too much absent,

There is too much gone.

I don’t have it in me,

There will be no release with the setting sun.

I can’t find any peace,

In what’s been done.

Dg

Danny Gunter

03 17 08

A Temporary Me

 

"A Temporary Me"

I want the moments to matter,

Later down the line.

Someone to count on,

Not just left behind.

I want the I love you's,

To never feel like lies.

I don't want to feel this alone,

When I need to cry.

I want the kisses to be special,

Never feeling second rate.

I want to believe the power,

When someone whispers of fate.

I want my hugs,

When I come through the door.

I don't want to feel,

Forgotten anymore.

I want free of the feeling,

Being swallowed by fear.

Giving another too much power,

If I let them near.

  

I know I'm nothing special, 

Nothing fantastic to see.

Will anyone ever want more,

Than a temporary me?

Dg

Danny Gunter

05/03/2006