Shadows

by Vtyk Homp
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 CONTENTS

Jewels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Untitled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Wondering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
In These Tunnels Under Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Life Traces the Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Love II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Frozen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Her Love Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Sonar Ring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Our Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
With Our Hands Firmly Locked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Sincerely Yours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
A Prayer to My Own Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
In These Tunnels Under Heaven II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Samsara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
The Senseless Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
A Fearless Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Away from the Light to Find No Wishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
And Though I Look Away from You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
For Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Forgiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Unicorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Earthly Lace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
 Introduction
Thank you for opening this book! I do hope that you find some of my poems
and pictures to be interesting or at least entertaining. No matter what you get
out of these works of mine, please do not take them too seriously; I don’t, so
neither should you.

Hopefully, this book will be the first of many. I feel a certain writing style
developing within me, and I’m curious enough to explore it, but only time will
tell if I actually follow through.

Oh and by the way, in case you were wondering: Vtyk is pronounced like Vic as
in Victor.
Vtyk Homp 2

Jewels
Gray clouds form; it begins to rain,
Decorating the sky with its lovely presence as it dances,
To the never-ending music of nature,
Making music itself.
The wind becomes its partner causing a majestic sway,
Making music as well to add with the rain.

The sparkling drops fall upon my head,

Covering my body, my arms, and my legs.
Quoting to myself, “O how complete it would be,
If someone was with me to share what I see.”

I see jewels.

You
Hats off to the one that possesses the most beautiful smile.
Marked by mysterious eyes that capture,
Fragments of my soul never to be returned home.
Emptiness is not an emotion felt,
In this new wave of confusion evoked by her uncanny but familiar
presence.

For the lost members of my being,

Relay to me today an unsurprising message of a barely tampered
with world,
Yet to be discovered by me.
3 Shadows

Untitled
Shoot to the sky my mind.
The flow of the Earth’s might moves in spirals from my center and
explodes with dynamite.
But nay the hidden dragons will not be employed.
They rest indefinitely unattached in the void.
If released they’ll fly straight to the top.
With pride the battle ‘gainst regret will be fought.
Hoping for victory, but destined to lose.
Regret is the future, for the mind with pride cannot choose.

Wondering
Enclosed in a dream unaware of the scene
Assumed what might be, someone said just to see
Illusion of yours isn’t mine that I need
A map through the bush sun-ray shine directly

What base did they find to make thoughts certainly

A basis defined from the mind’s illusory
As I see no light, through the bush wondering
And walk forth though vines till behind me I be

Enclosed in a dream unaware of the scene

Assumed what might be, someone said just to see
Vtyk Homp 4

In These Tunnels Under Heaven

Angels dancing around in my head
Dancing gracefully as I slowly drift off to bed

“Escort me to your world,” I say. “There’s no threat

For I am a creator of music, not of death”

Without delay my spirit they borrowed

Taking me away to a land of no sorrow
I pray for the utter hesitation of morrow
For if awakened, revealed is the turmoil of sorrow

“Where does our destination lie,” said I

“Through the red-white tunnels there is a palace,” an angel replied

“Built by your undying love for a being
There we shall dance to the music of its meaning”

Thinking of the being to whom much of my love is given

Her presence becomes real to me, as we fly through these tunnels
under heaven
5 Shadows

Life Traces the Call

Inhale...
The breath is laced with the utmost innocence of the source of
creation,
Yet still plagued with the impurities of an impeding ignorance in
relation.
Surrender the fight, of flame-forged tools that fly tonight.
The fuel of imbalance hath spread ‘bout the fools of time so tight.

In the interval is made a dark age to engage,

As birth awakens the mind of another sage not with rage.
A new age to be raised snows beauty of the frozen rain.
And the starlight eyes from up high, see clearly into the night at
any thought one might hide.

Run, but not far, from the touch of the ties that fall from afar.
And seek not peace when the ice becomes broken in the seasons
before fall.
Life traces the call.
Vtyk Homp 6
7 Shadows

Love
Why we never seize the day?
We just watch it splide right down into a mudslide.

Stupor stupor,
Help me run away into tonight.

O the peace of being alone.

And we’ll share it as one, if you shut off your flow.
As have I, but just for the moment.
We will then bathe in the world’s lighted life.

Alive in life!

Love II
The moonlight shines.
And her love guides its way
Through our love into clear skies.

Deep darling eyes.

Elevate, unite, bright.
Vtyk Homp 8

Frozen
A collage of colors stains the vision of internal eyes,
from what was known as truth in these drifty wide skies.

Undoubtedly,
seeing through the smoke and into the smoke of all matter.
Especially right through the light at what shines even brighter.

To peak,
poetry drips from the lips of a silenced mouth
that waits to shed its mind streak...
but is left without.

And lo,
from uncertainty it freezes and ceases to be seen it grows.
Born again in the spring so serene.
Born again in the spring, so serene.
9 Shadows

Her Love Song

It has begun to unfold
This of romantic love I shall say that I have told

To exist without such love is to be as I

The calm that is me
Reflecting the sky
Yes I
I AM THE SEA

Add but a drop of romance and you shall know

Chaos at once will quickly be bestowed
Seemingly sustaining a wild unrest
Morphing the air dark blue and gray from such depth

The creatures dance to her rhythms

My waves swirl from the wind she whirls long
A cyclone of emotional rhythms
Yes I am the sea, and I twirl in her love song
Vtyk Homp 10
11 Shadows

Sonar Ring
Reaching as far to an edge that’s unseen
Some possible by measures of the real and their team
Imagined and not conceived of here be
And trace what they can of a plush in the screen
Her sight free to leave and her lips fluid dream
Her voice-wave transposed to a deep sonar ring

Bird
It paces to the left.
It paces to the right.
I watch as it paces, till it’s out of my sight.

(Me) “Why must you pace so to and so fro?”

(Bird) “I pace just for joy, but now I must go.”

Up to the sky he flies to be there.

“Where?” I wonder briefly.
Then my only care is to stare.
Vtyk Homp 12

Our Walk
Mine eyes stay closed, but I know what’s ahead.
I fear what’s in-store, but care little of what’s said.
With eyes shut tight, I walk into the darkness.
I hope for the best, and rely on my sharpness.

Deep with her, travel I through unknown.

Bright trust lit the sky, so that I may be shown...
All of that which sits in arm’s reach.
But that which is far, still I do not see.

Of not she thought where we go on our walk.

I’m sure of our trail, far out to get lost.
With a smile I see no clear destination,
But signs that read, This Way to Salvation.
13 Shadows

With Our Hands Firmly Locked

With our hands firmly locked,
We will walk off the edge into this abyss.
Do not fear, my dear loved-one,
For the bottom does not exist.

Side-by-side for the rest of our lives.

Flying down into the darkness as we lose our own minds.
Traveling much faster than the speed of a thought.
Reasoning was left back miles ago when we had dropped.
Suspended in air our thoughts are and will stay.
Contemplating what had happened, and or what is to blame.

None of these woes are the worries of ours.

All we need do is to fall, as we stretch out our arms.
Vtyk Homp 14
15 Shadows

Sincerely Yours
Dear Talulah,
Well I’m on my way tonight.

My sweet Talulah,
Your words speak awe.

But the moon, it calls.

“Fly away from Majesty.

Fly on.
Fly.”

Sincerely Yours,
Vtyk Homp
Vtyk Homp 16

A Prayer to My Own Heart

O Heart
Stumbling down my face
Destined to break the ground
And sink the deepest sea

There’s no sadness too low for you

But there’s a place that I can take us to

We’ll take a trip on a rainbow

To see our lives in the stars
We’ll take a trip on a rainbow
To burn our selves in the sun

Amen
17 Shadows

In These Tunnels Under Heaven II

NO, SHE FALLS
My love, my love she falls
Grabbing my heart, ripping it from my chest, she falls

I stare into her imponderable eyes

Only to cause my heart to shatter like glass in her vary hands
I scream
But a silent mind-piercing scream as each piece runs through me
injecting her memory throughout my being

She is gone
The angels have scattered
Will my being again dawn
Or is it forever shattered

Here I lie still

Floating motionless under the above
Was I
Was I murdered by love
Vtyk Homp 18

Samsara
Trumpets of peace blow,
As thin white flags wave in this retched air of cold war.

Sharply-tuned daggers fly,

As wounded human bodies drop down to die,
And decompose on this mud-rich floor.

Heaven shifts from blue to blood,

And trees blaze in the distance
As night falls upon today with no remorse.
For the unseen, now take their vengeance.

Ten death-seeking hawks circle about the dimly lit shallow sky,
With a marked hunger unbound nor triggered to be the slightest
bit satisfied.

Blessings run no longer off the lush green edge into this pool of
samsara.

As it was written by time:

With anger and grief, through terror rule them all, but a few.

From distant tears,

A cloaked army of spectrumed gray will soon come march,
Under command of an ancient wisdom, not to be feared,
And with bow nor sword to be fought.
19 Shadows

The Senseless Fight

A mind so sensible and filled with peace?
Confusion has set it against it
Not one idea should be believed
Whipping around so restlessly down many routes
Thoughts once promoting balance, now conjuring doubt

Divided on all topics these dragons now stand

Face-to-face in battle, but none shall win

Scope
Stars fade as sleep settles
Closing the eye as one envisions the meadow
Of breezes observed but not from above
Showing that which is known is still yet undone

Is this a new height or a new low

I know not a direction of answers to go
Vtyk Homp 20

A Fearless Heart
It is control that I have sought,
And control that I have gained.
When things spin out of control,
It is fear that will reign.

I must seek the control-loss of much experience.

Within such absence, fear will find its dominion.

It is fear that I search for,

And it is fear that I must find.
When I befriend the many-faced foe,
A fearless heart will be mine.

Away from the Light to Find No Wishes

The sun rose black this morning,
Radiating pure darkness as I remember that I am mourning.

Rays of deep nothing from this blackened sun,

Stretching out over all as it searches for the son.

I am the son of nothing that will not be found.

I have sunk far below...deep below the ground.

Beneath the substance here lies sadness and wishes.

I wish to be free from sadness, but first I wish for no wishes.
21 Shadows

Shadows
I flee the realm of light to live in the shadows of still night.
Yet the sun, she gains ground on I,
With hopes to bring her burning life so my evil would die.

Shed light on all my pains dear love,

So all can see the scum that makes this true, dear love.

The sun, the sun?

You call yourself the sun?
The giver of life and center of all to be won?

The world seeks the day, but I seek the night.

My refuge from the world and all its blinding light.
Vtyk Homp 22
23 Shadows

And Though I Look Away from You

Lay down I to rest,
So thy sweet presence may fill this thin air.
My sleep sound as I rest,
For soon thy lovely face to me shall appear.

Stand I here before thee, with arms opened so wide.

Thy heart-warm embrace fails to meet any reachable end.
Then captured I am and held captive by thine eyes.

Soft fingertips upon this helpless still face.

Pink lips gently pressed to mine, share a passionate embrace.
Hands comfortably locked, smothered by love’s unmistakable trace.
But cometh the hour, all this, reality will unhesitate to erase.

Awake I to utter darkness,

For in my chamber there is no light.
Awake I to utter sadness,
For in my chamber there is no light.
Vtyk Homp 24
25 Shadows

For Peace
The humid air and the hazy sky.
This does not stop the blazing hot sun.
Cool breeze, only a faint brush by.
All at once as sweat doth run.

Guilt is the theme of today,

Topped with suspicion and confusion.
An unusual week when one longs to pray,
But has not for fear of its illusion.

Transform this situation from its beginning in the near past.

Make the decisions clear, so that hearts don’t cloud black.
May forgiveness come to the sinners and their sins cease to last.
May blessings fall upon the one, that their sins doth attack.

Forgiveness
The vapors of wrong-doing escape through the pours of my skin.
The sun hath steamed it out; the cleansing of the sins.
Once lost in confusions tangled and tense web,
Knowing not of which way to go to find peace and rest the head.

To lust for love and stay mindless of karma.

To love the lust and be held in the arms of,
Her.
The one in sin I binded myself with,
Only to pray for release and then be granted forgiveness.
Vtyk Homp 26

Unicorn
From the high clouds she was born.
The mystical magical flying unicorn.
Destined to bring peace upon this scorched earth.
To make flowers bloom and turtles give birth.

Where does the beautifully horned unicorn now live?

Underneath the rainbow near a waterfall, where gardenia scents the
flowers give.

Earthly Lace
This is my life in the making
To run in all directions till I am tired of chasing
Empty dreams filled with promise and great wishes
Hopeless romance and of love, to still long for her kisses

This is the world in all its glory

From all the stories to be told, mine are so boring

I know my place in this earthly lace

I am just one man from a whole human race