Betrayal Of Talents

Betrayal of Talents

Drop the treble, bump the bass

Feel the music in your bones and face

Escape into the words and sounds

Artist bares the soul

To stand on stage, so apparent

Spotlight on, fist to the firmament

To reach the assembled audience

Creation, lose control

I know the meaning of the words I’m singing

The strings I strum, sound blast, ears are ringing

Feel like the message that I’m conveying

Can’t escape my heart, my shortfall talents betraying me

I just want to move another

The way the music moves me here tonight

I want someone to share this feeling

I know I need to release this from my soul

Am I the tree that falls

But no one there to hear or see me down?

The poet’s pen, stabs the paper

Bleeds the ink

The smoky vapor

Words put down, put down,

The death of me

Lay out raw for all to view

To see the pain in me, pain in you

Manifest it, purging, into something beautiful

Straggle hard against the demons

Implanted egg, with the seamen

Ego, self-doubt lash out

Until the anger dissolves

Death a million paper cuts

Screams in my head, butterfly guts

The Ancient Mariner, albatross weight

Fall down fast in to the ocean

Cast upon ebbing motion

Life preserver hold on

White knuckle ride

I know the meaning of the words I’m writing

Voices, doubt in my head, diction, words fighting me

Feel like the message that I’m conveying

Can’t escape my heart, my shortfall talents betraying me….

Edmonton, AB, Canada