The Journey of the Soul
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The Journey of the Soul - Mark Cisper
The Journey of the Soul
By Mark Cisper
Poetry
Copyright © Mark Cisper—January 2015
ISBN 978-1-312-86458-0
Contents
The Hunt ……………………………………3
Sleepless …………………………………….5
Just For One Night ………………………….8
Be Mystified ……………………………….11
Waiting …………………………………….14
It’s Too Late ……………………………….17
Ain’t No Star ………………………………20
--But It’s All Right--
8. Not A Sun Worshiper ……………………...23
9. A Night of Making Love …………………..26
10. Crazy State of Mind ……………………….30
11. For A Noble Cause ………………………...33
12. Need Time To Think ………………………36
13. The Black Wizard Is Dead ………………...40
14. She Came Back To Me ……………………44
15. Shadow Souls ……………………………...49
16. DEATH Exists …………………………….52
17. It Was For Us ……………………………...55
18. A Feast For My End ……………………….58
19. Perched Headlong …………………………62
20. Nudity Exposes ……………………………66
21. American Dissent ………………………….69
22. All I Really Want ………………………….72
23. Sanctuary From Insanity …………………..74
24. In Gratitude To The Veterans ……………..76
25. Love At Midnight ………………………….81
26. Complicated Thoughts …………………….85
27. Crying At Night …………………………...88
28. I Want You ………………………………...91
29. Dilemma …………………………………...96
30. Taste Your Wine …………………………100
31. The Insane Poet …………………………..102
32. I Believe ………………………………….105
33. I Seek To Know You …………………….108
34. All Alone …………………………………111
35. You Can’t Hurt Me Anymore ……………114
36. The Dagger In The Roses ………………...118
37. Faith………………………………………121
38. Teach Me To Love ……………………….125
39. Madness ………………………………….128
40. I’m Trapped ………………………………132
41. Dear Grandma…………………………….135
42. Women I’ve Known ……………………...139
43. Take Me With You ………………………143
44. Children …………………………………..146
45. This World--This Poet …………………...149
46. Unwelcomed Views ……………………...152
47. Meet Ecstasy ……………………………..156
48. Nevermore ………………………………..159
49. I Got The Blues …………………………..160
50. Forget The World ………………………...162
Chronology …………………………………...165
The Hunt
Sinister snake,
Stalking its innocent prey.
Unaware of the danger,
The rabbit salvages for food
In order to feed its young.
As the snake approaches the unsuspecting prey,
The grass begins to sway.
The rabbit has been alerted
Of an apparent danger.
The rabbit perks its ears to listen.
It wrinkles its nose to smell.
It poises itself to react
At the latest point of reaction.
The snake is unaware
That it has made its presence noted.
So it slowly makes its approach.
Now, the snake is in striking distance.
It is now aware that the rabbit
Knows of its presence.
He smells the fear emanating
From its skin, in its
Otherwise unsuspecting calm.
Now, the rabbit smells the
Cold blooded serpent nearby.
It hears its black heart beating.
It feels hunger and desperation
Of this beast, ready to strike.
Ready to kill and eat its flesh.
The snake strikes out at its prey.
The rabbit jumps out of its range.
In fitful desperation, the snake
Strikes out again and again.
The rabbit is too quick
To be caught in the snake’s jaws of death.
The rabbit has escaped death.
It will return to its young
To feed its young and to rest.
The rabbit escaped to live another day.
The snake tired and defeated,
Lays in the grass to rest.
Its desperation and desire
Fuels its hunger pains.
Now, it must search again,
For prey to survive.
The hunt will continue.
The hunted must be aware
Of the danger of the hunt.
Sleepless
I’m so damn tired.
It’s twelve noon now,
I’ve been up since two-forty this morning.
I couldn’t sleep last night.
And I’m hurting right now,
I’m doing all I can to stay awake.
It’s getting nearly impossible to think.
I need to sleep.
My weekend was really quite depressing.
I didn’t have a thing to do
Or anywhere to go.
I came to the point of thinking,
Something like this:
What’s it matter if I sleep or not?
What’s it matter if I eat or not?
Who cares about what I do?
I had nothing to do.
I had nowhere to go
And no one to go with.
I have no life.
It seems like no matter
What I do, it doesn’t matter.
It seems, I can’t shine through
In whatever I show.
It seems the longer I go
Without sleep, the more
I seem to ramble on
With this rhetorical shit.
Sleep, I need to sleep.
Without sleep, I’m slipping.
It’s true, I seem to be
Slipping into some kind of depression.
Women, they look at me
As if I was the plague.
Most people look at me
As if I was insane.
The friends I have
Seem to look at me
As if I was invisible.
My sleeplessness must be playing tricks on me.
Then again, like I said,
I’m just trying to do
Something, anything, to
Keep me awake as long as I can.
So forgive the despairing
Folds of this ink,
Because it is just my sleeplessness
Taking a hold of my hand.
This is just a sleepy scroll
Of rubbish in an attempt
To stay awake, stay awake.
Rubbish, garbage, non-sense,
A bloody rhetoric.
I feel like I’m
A member of the walking dead.
Sleepless, I’m tired.
Good-night, at the next appropriate time.
Just For One Night
Come on baby, touch me.
Can you see me?
Can you hear me?
Can you feel me?
Touch me baby.
See how cold I am?
See how lonely I am?
See how frightened I am?
Touch me, please, touch me?
Do you hear me?
I need you to touch me.
Please, feel me.
Do you feel my heartbeat?
Do you feel how cold I am?
Do you hear my pleas?
Touch me.
See me.
I need your touch.
Please, I’m begging you.
Please hold me.
I need your touch tonight.
Please hold me tonight.
I am cold tonight.
I am frightened tonight.
Let me feel you close tonight.
Let me hear your whispers and breath
Against my ears and skin.
I don’t want to be alone tonight.
I’m not asking to make love.