Do not believe
What is not yet known
What is unknown
Is not yet ours to think
We know
Nor should we think that
We know
To trust in someone’s
Word is to think that
We know
But to trust blindly
Is to confuse what
We know
We do not sit but refrain
From pretending what
We know
Rushing to fill the void
With false certainty of what
We know
Deceives the soul
© GÄ
I’m like a bird
Free in the way that doesn’t land
Circling because the ground
Still asks too much
We’re on top of the world
Until we’re not
Until gravity remembers us
This boundary was not for
Anyone else but me
A quiet fence I built
So I wouldn’t keep bleeding
Where I already knew it hurt
I feel so down I don’t know
How I can make it work
I slept all day to greet the world tomorrow
And tomorrow arrives anyway,
Still carrying the sadness
I want fun
A drink.
A smoke.
A moment that doesn’t ask me
To be whole
Inescapable me
I’m torn up
I hope I find myself tomorrow,
But I can’t decide
If tomorrow wants me yet
I don’t know if I will ever go home
I know I don’t want to
And thinking I don’t have to
Makes me happy in a way
That surprises me
I can’t make sense of life
Right now
Standing in the middle of my
Essence falling apart,
Trying to conjugate a future
That won’t sit still
I just need fun
Relaxation
Something in me
Something to me
This is the moment before resilience —
Love has left,
And meaning has no resemblance
The structure I believed in is gone
The effort no longer feels legible
The world loses saturation
Something careful
Was treated carelessly
She responded with love
Because she knows who I am —
Not because she didn’t feel anything
Whatever I once was
And I don’t have to earn that grace
By suffering forever
The love for me is great at home,
Somehow I don’t think I can circle back to it
I will return to my mother
© GÄ
The left hand goes numb
Over time the heart throbs
Read the ancients
They will tell you
We are capsules
In time carrying the weight
It only grows
What we miss we wish
What we hold
Will grow old
And with time the
Answers we sought
Will become more
Evident
A truth untold
In ourselves
Not only ours
Belonging to
All of us
Sharing the best
We hold the worst
In this we find
Later that the
Understanding was
Always a part of us
Never open enough
Inside to receive
An invitation
To the self
© GÄ
To touch or to hold
Intimacy indoors
Is it for others
Or only for us
Eyes are watching
Does it matter
Will it erase
Our meaning
When the oranges
Brush one another
In the trees
Is this intimacy
Do we take from nature
Our lead
Or do we think we claim it
On our own
Volcanoes teach us
Eruption
Thorns demonstrate
Matters of pain
Universal mother
Do we make love like the earth
Can we replicate
Her passion
Is the fire
In our hearts
Consenting
Or are we
Only deceiving
Ourselves
© GÄ
The world is depressed
Crying in a way the clouds do
We all know it
Does anyone say it
Quietly living it
Pretending
It’s not there
Many can’t afford
To exist
This is homelessness
Living inside
Our homes
Who will agree with me
Who will stand up?
An evil gap
Created by wealth
Human kindness
Is what matters
An earth that sobs
A power unhinged
Even the artist agrees
Sad paintings are
Captivating
Then we count
Our pennies
Grasping on
With desperation
© GÄ
Finger comb my hair
Run through the strands
Let shedded pieces
Fall and drift across
Stone ground
An ancient soil
So many voices in different tones
Trees resounding
Communicating in words
They know no pitch is
Definite and each its own
Shadows are dancing
As well as they behave
A congregation to celebrate
Their liberation
Pigeons they draw close
A recognition
Within their soul house
Shared information
This one has bread
Or so it’s said
He will bring more
Orange eye black pupil
© GÄ
Is it isolation
Or is it learning
Many people walk alone
Even when they are not
Do we speak
In one language ever
Or are we all in
Different worlds
Of communication
Is the heart a book
Or a microphone
Is the grass a bed
Or food
Do we have both
In one place
Or are we separated
Do flowers bloom
For themselves
Or for the eyes and
Hands of those
Who hold them
When we are together
Are we alone
Are memories shared
Or solely our own
Both are true or
Mutually exclusive
© GÄ
How would someone love you
Not that much?
Not enough
Give birth
Watch you grow
Disappear
When does it end
Why did it begin?
Smoke rises
Into the eyes
Of the wanted
To be wanted
Disbelief
Not a crisis
Perhaps a burden
Only a seed
Formed into a
Fleshling
Becomes a whole human
Does it call you back
Do you let it go?
When will you wonder
Where your baby went
Now an adult
You press game over
Still their life is going
Where are you?
© GÄ
Silence is deafening
Comforting as well
Who is there
Versus what is gone
How may more times
Before we answer
Ourselves
Will we always question
Does sleep have a
Generosity
When we are holding
Our own futures
Do we grasp them
Differently from
How they are held
By others
A mind of longing
Is not alone
Even in sentience
© GÄ
Desire for affection
Doesn’t disappear
No longer sure
What I see when I see
What could be
Frozen in my head
What is the difference between
One position on the planet
Or another
We are the same
Our environment shifts
We are alive
Scenarios change
Wanting to be held
One rejection is
Many times over
Later
Reoccurring experiences
Are reminded where
To land inside of us
Alone at home
Is not the same
As alone in the garden
Furniture is not
Flowers and mountains
Climb up hold the stone
Fall down ask for less
© GÄ
Poétique 