Author Archives: AlbertZayat
Reckless Moon
Oh reckless moon
Have you no sense
Don’t you know?
What effect you hold
On this poor mortals
Well-worn soul
Oh Reckless moon
You cast your spell
Stirring mayhem
And larceny
On this feckless self
Oh Reckless moon
Is that you?
Who dances winds broom?
That sweeps earths room
Kicking dust and lust
And old age rust
Hi above in to skies of white
fluffs
And hawks and doves who
Rescue fools
Oh Reckless moon
How dare you,
How dare you
Tinker with the mighty rules
How dare you take that which is not yours
How dare you know better than
which
Has been
Solely
Adorned
Oh reckless moon
I fail because of you
And succeed as well
And succeed as well before
Anyone can tell
I rush into the wind you stir
And reckless and feckless I live
What I’ve learned.
Before the Requiem
Before mornings sun
is done
This boy born as a universes son
Will pack his things
And sift through days
Reserved for him
To come undone
Before noon-times tea
Breaks for thee
I rest, and look
Back upon my trail
I left to see
Before the afternoon hour
Breaks the wind
And storms with showers
Upon a fools taunting grin
I stand alone
At the foot of heavens throne
And there I know
My time, on my road
Is yet sorted out, ahead lay more toil
And then, in the shadow
of a gentle twilight
I look and ponder
What do I remember?
What is my insight?
Yet with no flashlight,
To illuminate my path
And from that day forth
Time marches so quickly
I know that now,
I must move before I see
The dark of evening
A place where there is little
Of reasoning
A time when lists of do’s
Replace those of don’ts, you fool
Time left only, now
to cull for only those few
Things left on hold for a when a better day, brings
And told it is, by natures gentle hints
I must be off
No time to be lost
What’s left to do can only be a few?
But the choicest of tasks they are
I promise you
Yes, the choicest of tasks I promise yo
Before
Before I wake and face the day
Before the daily weep, prints,
And hits the streets, the same
And tells by those
Whom are told what to say
I’ll think aloud,
Is this my last light?
Of a mornings day?
My last in the sun
I’ve spent so many
Some poor and yet some wonderfully done
Alas, now, I know
I have no more bullets
in my life’s gun
So before I weep
Or begin to shriek
That my time is gone
No more to keep
I find a new song
One of many melodies
And beats of heart
With new rhymes to hum
To carry me along
And then I’ll say, I won’t scare this or any day
Nor blink aloud
Or cry to who
It’s only a transfer
To your new time
You lamenting old fool
And so instead of mercy pleads
I’ll ride my bike
Into dawns new light, you’ll see
And chase the rainbow of heavens end
And chase the rainbow to heavens end
Before I wake
Before I begin
Visitation Rites
Through the night
Of dreams, mighty might
I travel to places
that now fill once empty spaces
And through those labyrinths
Of webs I’ve cobbled
Memories lay
In traps set
To tease this old fool
By tricks of self-rule
Times, once thought
Some time now thought, forgot
Yet still and all
I travel the night halls
Deep inside
Where I express my, rites
For visitations, time
To see, times of mine
Now jailed deep within
a very sleepy mind
And there they rest
Comfortably? Or not?
Or do they, then?
Beg to escape, my friends
from spaces behind locks,
Doors thought sealed once and, for evermore?
Oh no, I see, I can but for moments brief
Go and travel and tramp quickly I must
Knowing slumber, will soon leave me to rust
Quickly I scrap through times once captured
There I find mysteries, witch haunted
Of times once held
Lived in such, great rhymes they hail
And sing and call, OH BLOODY HELL!
Come with me, Come my friend
Another encore is at your beck and whim.
Come back, come back, come back and visit me
For, another, encore! You’ll enjoy it you’ll see
Come back and look, crack another door.
I’ll be waiting there, but for only a moments, allure
That’s all your visitation rite’s will grant
For times once lived
For times once lived, now stored
Stored so deeply, they can only be released
From their jail so frail
In the midst of dreams
Day or night, if you please
Come play and remember
Come play and remember, it is your rite!
Above the fray
I want to fly
Above the fray
Above the noise
Of daily days
I’m sure to fly above the birds
Above the land
Above the hills of
Awkward man
Where mindless numb-talk
Is daily spoken
Where life’s daily going’s on
Is often gone wrong
I hope to fly high above
High above lost doves in sun
Above so high
Up In the sky
Only angels can I see
So near, I sigh
I’m sure I’ll float
And be assured
I’ll float to where
One often goes without a spoken word
But if I fail
I’ll slip too far
The warmth I’ll feel
will be Evermore
Evermore beneath the sky
A sky that lives
With no rules of mine
And so I think, I’ll fall below
And hope I’ll find some of life’s magical glow
For if I live without risk
Then years spent hiding within safety’s mist
Will waste away till there are no other days
And what a blue note
That would bring to this old fool
So I want to fly within the fray
Of very ordinary complex days
And in the end I can say of time
Was mine to hold and waste divine!
Detached
I sit
Sail On:
And then I said
This is the end
Of time
Of mine
So what now
I see no light
No wind to rush
Me into flight
I just sit
On this life’s trip
And wonder how colorful
My canvas did ……
My canvas was. ….
And then my canvas
unfurled and I left my slip
No longer just floating
No longer adrift
The Don
From the cup
Of self-importance,
I sipped a brew
Of lasting fools
From a river
Of worthless flow
I gained so little
I grew so old
From a sky
Of wild blue lies
I held so true
Only to fall,
And crash,
Like some old fool
And yet within
My quixotic dreams
I’ve slain more wind
Than ever seen
And there I live
With little more
And hope
This- is- real for sure
For all I have left
are my right dreams
Quixotic they are, ever-more, ever-seen