Halls of the Dark Muse

I always joke around with friend about what a book addict I am and how obcessed I am with books and reading, and he can't beleive how many books I read, and how many I have, so this is how completely crazy I am.

This weekend I am going up to my uncles cabin in the mountains, I am only going to be gone for a couple of days. I am living on Friday and comming home on Sunday and yet I will be taking with me 3 possibly 4 books. Haven't yet decided upon the 4th one.

Forgetting

Memories
bitter; sweet
serenading; twisting; fading
painful; beautiful; darkness; diminished
vanishing; blackening; forgetting
freedom; torture
amnesia

A Sparrow Falls ~ Wilbur Smith
Invsibile Man ~ Ralph Ellison
The Ghost Writer ~ Philip Roth
The Good Earth ~Pearl S. Buck
Travels in Hyperreality ~ Umberto Eco

The Mirror Which Flatters Not

It is true I am fraud
my moth lips flutter
over dark night lies
my eyes rapt in the headlights

All the secrets I try to hide
in a sunless box
kept upon the mantel
to catch in the moonlight

Falling inside of myself
where the fireflies live
within my heart
offering only fleeting
illumination

How I try to shed the mask
showing ...

The Vanishing Grail

I live my life
a body of lies
where I have thousands of eyes
all that I withhold
to erect my tower of secrets

With my lips sealed in wax
I build upon the drama
like whispers of a black mass

Keeping the gate locked tight
you may only peer inside my world
in this I hold the power
as a rumor of the philosophers stone
all hidden knowledge is but mine alone ...