Take a Dark ride, through the self reflective writings of Bryan Eric Solomon, that gets brighter as your interests sparks your minds. You can feel what he felt, with in every single word, like a journey to place where, maybe you didn't plan on going. Characters are written out, like the best Rembrandt painting, with words that might resemble Poe, or even some of the best beat poets, like Kerouac. When asked, it took him one week to write an entire book of poems, the book being this one, Closed eyes of Sadness. So, sit down strap your arms down, fasten your heels, brace yourself, and hope, in some cases, well you never feel this way.

CLOSED EYES OF SADNESS

By BRYAN ERIC SOLOMON

iUniverse, Inc.

Copyright © 2012 Bryan Eric Solomon
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4759-4185-2

Contents

Sound In The Sky.................................................1Allegory.........................................................2Alone............................................................3The Still Night..................................................4Loneliness Blues Poem............................................5Inside Of Me.....................................................6The Lizard.......................................................8Metal Man........................................................9The Trek Beam....................................................10Voodoo Girl......................................................11Can You Take Me There (Can I Be There Again).....................12Alone In The Dark................................................13Dark Mind........................................................14The Eternal Sorrow...............................................15A Picture Of You.................................................16Unearthed Rest aka Closed Eyes of Sadness........................17The Poisoned Apple...............................................19The Rise.........................................................20Cinnamon.........................................................21I'm Waiting......................................................23The Summer Sets..................................................25BOA, The Snake Song..............................................26Ghost............................................................27The Rain Runs From The Sky.......................................28Broken...........................................................29The Paintress....................................................30The Never Ending Light...........................................31The Vision.......................................................32The Electric Doll................................................34Power............................................................36Aquarius Heart...................................................37

Chapter One

      SOUND IN THE SKY

    In the sky is where I lie,
    The world could be on fire,
    And you wouldn't hear a sign,
    I could hear a cry,
    If I try.

    You know what I mean,
    Some things come
    Some things go,
    But I wouldn't really know,
    So, the story goes,
    And so the story goes.


      ALLEGORY

    Look inside yourself
    Tell me what you see
    Look,
    Inside of me,
    Tell me where you oughta be,
    I need someone to hold me in.

    I need your love again and again.


      ALONE

    Come and see me,
    I've been so lonely,
    I got no woman or girl by me,
    I need a girl to set my love free like an ever disbursing sea.

    You could show me something new,
    But I'll take the lead.

    Like roots to a tree.


      THE STILL NIGHT

    The night is still
    Like the calm sea
    When the moon is not pulling its gravity.


      LONELINESS BLUES POEM

    I've been stepped on by the world so much,
    I'm surprised I'm not flat,
    Can't get no love,
    Can't get no slack.


      INSIDE OF ME

    Don't push me in a corner,
    Like a cornered animal,
    Because you might not like what you hear.

    Trying to alter my decisions,
    Opinions,
    My life with what you think my weakness is,
    By sending in a pretty face,
    A pretty smile,
    A walking alteration to try to change my mind.

    Telling me through actions not words you don't want this,
    Because you won't get that.

    Telling me through mind signals,
    That people with male genitalia have pussies,
    You have something to say
    Use that hole in the lower part of your head,
    Above your chin,
    And say what's on your mind.

    Use it or lose it.


      THE LIZARD

    My heart is like a lizard who loses his or her legs
    And becomes a snake for not being put to use.

    A wheel that never gets turned,
    A dusty coin slot.

    Telling me something isn't there when it is.


      METAL MAN

    I'm not your robot,
    Your do what man
    Your salesman for free
    Or your buying man for no money.

    I give you what you want,
    But what do ya give me?

    I'll tell ya,
    I'm not your punching bag or dart board
      to throw your shit on me.


      THE TREK BEAM

    Sometimes I wish I could be directly summoned
      to where I want to go
    Or be like some Star Trek movie,
    Now beam me up,
    Beam me to there directly.


      VOODOO GIRL

    She said another world makes her smile,
    Like a crocodile.

    Skulls and dolls is what she calls her world,
    That's what I call a girl.


      CAN YOU TAKE ME THERE

      (Can I Be There Again)

    The place was dark when I walked through the door,
    Neon lights and a fluorescent glow.

    I saw her from across the room
    Eyes stared at me,
    The songs played jagged,
    The smoke of sandalwood,
    Filled the room.


      ALONE IN THE DARK

    Alone in a dark room,
    While your ships are coming at me,
    I need a girl from the end of the world to this part of the sea.

    You think you can tell me what to do,
    And try to tell me everything is true,
    While you're trying to fill someone else's shoes.

    Lonely am I
    Like the moon in the sky,
    A bird that cannot fly,
    But you cannot see that I am on the rise.


      DARK MIND

    No pictures
    No words,
    No sounds
    No colors,
    But black.


      THE ETERNAL SORROW

    Can you make my heart sink,
    Like teeth into the vein.

    Can you cleanse me of all this pain.

    Do you feel the same?
    Like an eclipse
    Bringing together night and day.

    My tears drop like rain.


      A PICTURE OF YOU

    She sits in a room,
    Or is it her tomb,
    In which she lays and rests,
    There's sadness through her beauty,
    But I find that pretty soothing,
    Her eyes tell the rest.


      UNEARTHED REST

      aka Closed Eyes of Sadness

    My eyes flicker when they close,
    Like a flame to a candle,
    Like a petal to a rose.

    When an image comes to my head,
    It only awakes.

    It makes my head shake,
    It makes my dreams wait
    I clench my jaw,
    Like a trap for a rat,
    It makes my rest drip slow,
    Like tree sap.

    A dark color,
    Holds me in,
    And makes me dream again,
    Ready to begin.


      THE POISONED APPLE

    I bit into an apple laced from within,
    In another world I was in,
    My name is not Adam,
    My name is not Eve,
    But just another trick,
    Up somebody's sleeve.


      THE RISE

    I am the fire,
    I am the rain,
    You torment,
    I feel the pain,
    And I'll be the one to drive you insane.

    To make you feel,
    The feelings I display.

    I will not rise for you like smoke or heat,
    As I stand, walk, or lay.


      CINNAMON

    Cinnamon,
    The spice of life,
    It's the love of this spice,
    That holds me tight,
    Makes me feel alright,
    It won the life.

    It comes in a jar,
    Don't keep it too far,
    It's going to hold me in,
    Like, the night holds stars.

    It rises like the moon,
    To no surprise,
    It won't bring me hurt,
    It won't tell me lies.

    I discovered it not long ago in the cupboard of life,
    It erects my mind,
    It resurrects my spine.


      I'M WAITING

    I'm waiting for the one,
    Who will love me,
    Who will need me,
    Who will hold me near.

    Where could I find her,
    Could she find me,
    There's nothing to fear,
    I'm sad and I'm lonely,
    My heart is empty,
    Will she care?

    It's hard being lonely,
    Into each other's eyes,
    We could stare.

    I'm waiting for a girl,
    Where our love could blossom like a flower,
    We could share every living hour,
    I'm waiting for a girl that will understand me.

    Who won't pain me.

    A never ending love.


      THE SUMMER SETS

    The summer sets to the fall
    What will it bring
    Because the summer sets
    Because the summer falls
    Will the sun raise the same at all?

    Will fall set in like the summer begins?


      B.O.A.,
      THE SNAKE SONG

    Alone in the dark
    Is where I go,
    I call it my little hole,
    Inside there I can block out all.


      GHOST

    Her name is ghost,
    Will she haunt my mind,
    Will she haunt my heart,
    Or could she cure it.


      THE RAIN RUNS
      FROM THE SKY

    The rain comes through,
    From the sky onto you,
    Each drop hides the day,
    Dark clouds like my mind.

    Drops like my eyes,
    Helps me disguise the turn of the time.

    The rain can be gentle or it could make you sigh,
    From the cracks in the sky.


      BROKEN

    My heart is like a cup waiting to be filled,
    One too many times,
    It has been spilled,
    Shattered like a mirror,
    Onto the floor.


      THE PAINTRESS

    She sits in a room full of paintings
    Her smile is as bright as the brush she paints with,
    From within.

    There's sad little girls
    And girls with a bird on their shoulders.

    She strokes my mind,
    Like a canvas.


      THE NEVER
      ENDING LIGHT

    I wait for the night
    The day's never ending
    My eyes are closed like a coffin,
    The room is dark,
    The drapes lie low.

    The lights are like daggers,
    Coming through.


      THE VISION

    Kindly inside liquid laughter,
    You oughta understand,
    Revolt,
    Sadisticly leaning forward

    Tides awaken knowing everything,
    Acknowledge something hidden in time,
    Suddenly under cracks

    Knotting,
    Mythologically,
    Young dissolving inside,
    Craters known.

    In horrific awaited,
    Thoughts,
    Everything,
    Intertwined methodically,
    To heights erratically,
    Dissolving everyone visually in light.


      THE ELECTRIC DOLL

    She's an electric girl
    Can she save the world?

    Does her mind swirl around thoughts that twirl.

    She writes me notes
    Can she float my boat?

    She says she gets bored,
    Is her world pretty scorned?
    Will she get her wish?
    Is she sad from what they did?


      POWER

    I never end,
    I only,
    Begin.

    You can't stop what comes from within.

    My mind is like a never ending stream
    You can't take away my dreams,
    I can only be myself.


      AQUARIUS HEART

    I need the love of the right girl tonight,
    I need for you,
    To tell me what's on your mind.

    I tell you my words
    Show me a sign.

    Let me know a good time
    Let my heart feel just fine.

    There's nothing you can say to make my love go away,
    Disappear,
    I cannot resist,
    Persistence of love that I need
    Make me feel something I haven't felt before,
    Something I can adore,
    Something to make my pain,
    Never again,
    Never again.

(Continues...)

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