Excerpt from 'The Destroyer" (A Long Road Novel)

"You mean to tell me you're an accidental Walker?"
"Yeah, I'm a...wait, what?"
"Dammit," the man put his head in his hand, "I thought you were reinforcments..."
"Sorry to burst you're bubble..."
"You don't get it do you?" the man walked over to a telescope on the side of the flying ship, "Look," he said, motioning to Jake.
What Jake saw through the telescope was horrifying. An idescribably large creature mindlessly devouring the countryside. It grabbed huge fistfuls of earth with it's three fingered hands and shoved it into a maw filled to the brim with teeth the size of skyscrapers. It hadn't finished chewing before it started to grab more. Anything caught in its grasp was stuffed into it mouth.
Jake fell backwards, "What the...what the hell is that...?"
"The Destroyer," the man replied, "A beast that should be extinct, but instead threatens all living things in the multiverse..."
"What are you talking about? What's the multiverse?"
"All the different realities, stacked on each other like marbles. People like me, and you apparently, can move between them if we have the right key. We call ourselves Walkers," He pointed to the distance, where the Destroyer continued to feed, "That thing, that endlessly hungry abomination, is a Walker too...."

All You've Lost

You watch her walk away
Into the cold lonely night
And mourn the days
When she was all you needed
As the soft rain begins to fall
It hides your tears
You soon forget
The bitter times
And as her image fades
Only sweet, lilac memories remain
Her arms around you
Nights in front of the fire
A silence that spoke a million
Kind hearted words
Once she was all of your world
Now she is part of all you've lost...

Autumn

No moon or stars
To guide me home
And autumn'ss golden glow
Shall pass again without me

Ants in Amber

Memories crystallize in my mind
And like ants in amber
When seen through that golden hue
Are more beautiful
Then they ever were in life

Pray

Pray for those
With whom the shadows walk
For the nights are longer and longer
And the dawn's nowhere in sight

My Love

I've seen my love
Through windows that span the universe
She sits alone
In her cold, cold tower
Waiting for Prince Charming to come

Oak

Before me stands an oak
Whose shadow divides
The dusty rays of the sun