If a tree falls in the woods…,
Do we hear it?
If a boy cries wolf,
Do we reprimand it?
If politics contradict science,
Do we believe it?
If a lie is told over and over,
Do we ignore it?
If a line is drawn in the sand,
Do we cross it?
If we won’t think for ourselves,
Do we deserve it?
If we refuse to learn from the past,
Do we repeat it?
Question authority as a thoughtful man.
Trust the facts when facts support,
For ignorance can never replace truth.
Randomness of thoughts
Swirling chaotically
Living confusion
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I am a magnet
Attracting insanity
From all the four winds
Once they’ve taken residence
I am left to their mercy
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Darkness swoops in like shadow cast by the raven;
A figment of imagination created by a troubled mind
Or reality, black and foreboding stealing a bit of sanity.
It is impossible to truly know which is which.
Fearing the worst, confidence is crushed to dust
Taking with it any semblance of normalcy
And scattering it to the four winds with each living breath.
O’ demon, take not my last shred of humanness
For fear that it may never return.
Tell me…what is it that you so hungrily desire!
Feasting on my deepest thoughts and dreams,
Why must you torment with such expectations of disaster?
Take leave…retreat with this illness back to the shadows
I shalt not be enslaved by thy razored talens.
Should survival not be my destiny, I shall take leave of my senses
Knowing that I fought to the bitter and bloody end.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I have taken leave
Though mostly of my senses
They’re gone with the wind
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
A life in chaos
Wants and needs torn asunder
Caught in the middle
Really…what is one to do
But cope with what’s thrown their way
.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Chaos corrals me
Only to cut me loose with a fury
Nothing makes sense anymore
Frying my feeble brain
Useless is it to resist
Steely is her grip
Instead I submit
Only to plunge deeper into the darkness
Never to return
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
A jigsaw puzzle
This is the life that I lead
Trying to fit in
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Reeling from turmoil
A whirlwind of a day
I’m dazed and confused
So much in so little time
Its time to relax and breathe.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Nightmares, perhaps a chemical imbalance
Edge me ever closer to the precipice.
Granted, I have had a favorable life;
Adorned with friends, family and children,
Time, health, home, finances have been kind.
In spite of all this, happiness eludes me.
Venom spews from my lips quite freely
Instigated by a darkness living deep within.
This I must tame if I am to find lasting peace
Yet I question daily, my ability to do so.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Dom DiFrancesco 