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Beautiful Sunset

    -by Ryan Priest © 2007

 

I let it happen

Again

Between anonymous

Sexcapades

and slap-shots at

Suicide

I have allowed myself

to love again

The world seems prettier

Now

She lights up my days

but I know in a week,

month, year

that she'll be gone

And I'll think myself

a fool

Not for loving

But for allowing my eyes

To take in another sunset

in a beautiful world

Just to lose it all over again.

 

Soulsick

•  by Ryan Priest © 2007

 

i am soulsick

i have been for quite some time

will be

probably

until i die

and maybe even then

because the soul cannot die

it does feel pain

we all know that

i know that

and i am soulsick

with pain

nothing against you

nothing personal

i was born sad

and always will be

 

Desert Sands

•  by Ryan Priest © 2007

 

thousand miles of desert

i am far away

thousand cars

without destinations

apparitions of the road

and now i am here

and now i am more alone

than i've ever been

i somehow feel as

if i've been tricked

this isn't a city

this is hell

where all the filth

of the world is belched out

and left on the street

to rot

this is not my home

but it's gone to far

and grown too late

and the desert sands

are hot

so i'll never see my home

again

Ryan Priest is a twenty-eight year old, middle to lower class denizen of Hollywood California attempting a career as a writer and poet. So far, the going is slow but the ride is mesmerizing. www.ryanpriest.net