Nature's Calm

Peace in the wind and the waves of the blades
Flying free through the trees and the pores of my skin
Lifts to my nose, inflates my chest
Blows on my toes, sings my heart to rest

I am enamored by nature
From the trickling leaves
To the sauntering breeze
And the ants on my feet

Slip off my shoes, walk out to my home
Scraping my pads against the stone
Sliding up against ridges and roughs
Tickling green fingers; smooth, caky mud
Gritty grains riddled with pores
And a great myriad of scattered acorns! Ouch!

Rub out my soles
Pat the dry umber
Dip my tips in the lips of green under

Whoosh! In my nostrils
The wisp of crisp morning
Tickle my cheeks with the leaves on earth's awning

I am an animal, climbing, jumping, running
Rolling in the pillowy moss
Licking my palms against plush, velvet petals
Fluttering my fingers in the plants' hair soft

Brisk, light scent of fresh rain's damp
Fills my lungs as I lay and pant

Skin embraced, smothered thick in moist black
Pores rubbed wet with dew from clouds' laps

My soul runs in the gardens
Vivid light abounds therein
Sprinkle the buds under this canopy
With the star's fire shimmering

Grace the hearts of those who feel the bustle of the forest floor
Hears the chirps, the rustle, the whisper, and the cicada's hungry roar

...And maybe if you listen intently, you can hear God say, "I love you"...

Open your eyes to the ocean above your head
See the sea beneath your feet
Smell the red, the yellow, the blue, the green
Open your heart to love all of these...

Live a little more than yesterday
You will never have the same today
Bless yourself with the bliss of now
For spirits like yours never age

You are apart from nature
But nature is a part of you

So take off your shoes
Walk on the dew
Discover your muse
The old, new becomes you.



                                  by Daniel Santiago

Endeavor

Love

Hope

Peace

Cover me like a warm fleece

Come

See

Find

This life, a sick fantasy

Oh, come share your mind

Open it up, watch the grind

It runs through all you know

Flattening all in the snow

It's deadly! But alluring

It's horrid! But inviting

This life you desire to live..

It seems as though we are aiming for a selfless goal

But we are treated like rats in a muddy hole

Why do we continue straining our intellect so

Running on the wheel, paying an exuberant toll.

I look, I look

But I find no relief

I walk, I walk

Getting no closer to peace

I live in endless

Turmoil and grief

Send your spirit

Come over me.

See your vehicle lacks of oil

The carpet pulled out from under your feet

You're doomed, you're damned, writhing in terror

Your legacy snuffed out, get ready to greet your fate.

Oh, come share your thoughts

Awestruck, what a price it brought

Wonder aloud to me in sleep

Each passing day penetrates deep.

It's hard!

In here

Horizon unclear

No soul around

On this desert ground

We dived right in

Knowing not how to swim

Gasping

Clawing

Finally submerged.

Why is it so that the righteous endure

While corrupt antagonizers find themselves cured

Their disdainful deeds should deem them dead

But instead they succeed and rise overhead

Cursed be they that curse our God

But they walk away spared of the rod

And they that have, receive more and more

While the lacking are sent to do all the chores

See our world has doused itself gray

We grab our paints and color away.

Here is what I want my life to be

Miraculous countenance delivering me

But it is the slight nuance that we do not see

Our "friends" have shown us shallow mercy

Truly you are alone, alone with the book

Reading intently, nowhere to look, but up

And so…

I look, I look

But I find no relief

I walk, I walk

Getting no closer to peace

I live in endless

turmoil and grief

Send your spirit

Come over me.

I look, I look

I See the ball drop

I walk, I walk

Circuitry stops

Beats an echo

Through the cold floor

The pain in me

Is suddenly no more.

I am at peace.

                             by Daniel Santiago

Absolution WIP

Some screenshots from my latest work in progress, "Absolution".

It depicts the desperate soul reaching towards heaven for salvation as evil forces try to pull him back down.

A Poem

The yearning of light fades to this

The one stark dawning of fate’s ill kiss

Upon your heart a burden is lain

And lo, a muted harp and tears long slain

The aching trek of weary soles

Riding the flow between the poles

A dulling soothe of whispering leaves

Left my soul to wander with these

A soulmate slain

A boulder cast forlorn

A memento in dust

A promise of disgust

Die might I in earth’s black palms

And rehearse shall I, David’s psalms

But will not bring me forth to peace

Whilst I know not when strivings cease

Find me a hand to rub my cheeks

To adore me in misery

And worn physique

To whisper a poem into my ear

And to commune with me though we still fear

Now will it end

To my command

To loose my arbitration friend?

I have bound my beat

To the beat of one

That is no less, imagination

So faint it grows

Woes and woes

Stifling still my songs for those

That know me not

Yet feel my cry

Together we are all lonely inside…

And surrender your eyes to me one more time

And I, in turn, surrender mine

And exchange our dreams through passing gaze

And pray God’s will to meet again…

I only pray that I knew you

.........by Daniel Santiago