Shower Thoughts

You wake with the sun's rays ploughing your skin Though on all other days you would curse the a.m. And the beckoning clutches of labouring work Today you feel like it’s best to begin With headphones plugged deep in your ears Your footsteps - a pulse that beats on concrete A background soundtrack for bustling life And the city’s a stage on opening night Sometimes you walk but it feels like you run Though rushing toward no place by design Just passing the time that’s speeding past you Left in its wake - one less morning to hate So don’t stay in bed. When you’ve been given a chance, take it. When you get a lucky break, make it. When you give your word, keep it. When you sense a kiss, steal it. When you catch a moment, live it. Whether it’s joy or sorrow, feel it. For nothing is here to stay. - vktr

Sunset skyscape in the eve of spring The warning breeze of coming rain Hairs of women waving in the wind Spread scented delight for passers by Rivalled only by the blossomed trees The world bears fruit to so much wonder That it’s impossible to look away For who could ever sleep at night When there is so much beauty in the day For roads ahead all lead to somewhere And one can walk alongside God for the entire way... - vktr

Girl, I will marry you Because even when we barely speak Over leftovers for dinner lit by noisy screens We say "I love you" without words And every song I've ever heard Becomes about the way you look at me Girl, I will marry you For you have seen me at my worst and never turned away Half a man marked by the worries of a hundred men Heart cracked and chipped by former false romance Yet you always find a place for me in your embrace And keep patient as you put the pieces back in place Girl, I will marry you Because to betray you is to betray myself For you have carried me when I couldn’t walk And you took me further than I'd ever hoped Though the fire of our love may not be fierce like before It has transformed our being into so much more Two souls entangled in eternal dancing slow Girl, I will marry you For you have shown me more than I could ever see You were always strong when I couldn’t be So when I lay at night right next to you I listen...

Passing places, sacred sites From another lifetime Scenes of love, loss, ash, revival It all means so little to me now Almost like it never happened Like a dream dead on arrival Time has mended all my scars But I don't remember how I got them Like I've learnt nothing from the past Other than I never want it to repeat Days feel like memories mirrored Cycled times over in my mind Though with each loop they get more faded And merge to yield weeks, months, and years Passing places, setting sights Where should I go from here? For what once was is mine no more But like rain returns to oceans It will one day all come back to me Like a long-forgotten dream - vktr

My mind is always wandering the past And every thought feels like coming home From a journey tens of light years long Like the life I’m living now is not my own A radiant sky in bloom, scented by the sea Seagulls silhouetted by its glow in flight They hover over rooftops framed by fading light Shrinking ever smaller with every clap of wings The noise of youth turns ringing keys to music As kinship channels sorrow into beauty A symphony that mends our souls ensuing Harmonics played on strings still pulsing A young woman blessed with eyes of wonder Re-shapes my heart as she looks right through me There is nowhere else and no one else I want to be But timeless, shapeless, just a fragment of her story But the present pushes me along its course And as I shuffle day by day I'm dropping breadcrumbs down to mark my way So that when I'm lost I may re...