Alone and detached
A solitary fellow
Typically good at privacy
Am I a tower of a person
What does that amount to?
Like a skyscraper
No one can reach the top of
I just wanted you
To be nice to me consistently
Crazy provenance
Broken reality
How exhausting but also
What liberty!
What freedom!
What destiny to reveal
My greatest ecstasy
The heirloom to a story
My body has yet to tell
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Broken-hearted
Or is it broken departed
Too many no’s at one time
Loving in the fantasy
Of my mind
Resting in the shade
Of the bower of your heart
My incendiary flowerbed
We knew all of this before
Collectively we just
Never learned it
Enthralled
Feeling every feeling
Every sensation
Every pore
All the channels
Super loaded
Flooded and exploded
In my body
Somber notes
To coax your heart and arms
Around me
Lay down in the bower
Of this incendiary flowerbed
A hammock
A small town fabric
Of undoubted love
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Knowing you were there
Missing where we were
That night
Your hair
The moment that didn’t know
How to kiss me back
Jumping up and down
The laughter all around
I’ve never heard
So many birds chirping
We danced and
Someone’s wedding bells
Were ringing and clanging
In the backyard
Of my heart
One tiny moment
In space and time
It feels like all we get
Even if we gave a lot
I just wanted to absorb you
Stand back and let you shine
Watch you do your best
Blinding light
Love unlike the rest
Love unlike the rest
Love unlike…
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Of course I would
Fall in love with a ghost
Of course I would
Miss my window of opportunity
I could retrace my acts
Sixteen days later
And still not find your footsteps
Kind of remarkable
Kind of like moss
Always there but maybe
Just in the background
And we miss it because
We’re not looking for it
I certainly wasn’t looking for you
But somehow my eyes found
What the heart wants
When I looked at you
Of course I would
Not realize it would be too late
Of course I would
Think about you endlessly
Through the night
I went back there today
Again because I also
Didn’t forget about the way
You came running out the door
After me
Of course I would
Ask you about plants
Of course I would
Wish I said something else
Of course I would
Never see you again
Of course I would
Fall in love with a ghost
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You broke me open
With cracks of light
Love lava pouring out
From everywhere
Each pore is erupting
Where is it all running
Off to
Where am I
Found
Is it always this explosive
To feel love again
Do we have to sew
My head back on
I am a permanent balloon
Drifting heartfelt
Oozing over
I am the number one
Fireworks producer
Creator of sparks
A dynamite cart
Pushing fast towards you
Off the edge
Crippled emotions
A happy beast in flight
A love feast in sight
Morning and night
Sun and moonlight
Lover in bright colors
I can feel you walking
All over my territories
Discoverer
You have uncovered
My treasure map
Your X
Marks the spot
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Hoping that I’d find you today
To give you a small note
I was hoping I could ask you
If you want to spend time
With me tomorrow
I could already taste
Your kisses
I already imagined
You would want to leave
Your mark on me
A love bruise on my neck
I had to ask you to stop
To pull away
To keep my image professional
Although I really didn’t want to
I hoped to say to you today
Everyday I say maybe tomorrow
But today is the day I say
I found you
You’re hard to catch
But unexpectedly easy
To find at first
Looking up into your eyes
Passing by
I saw you
You came and found me
And then you were gone
Where were my words
Why am I bad at this
I wasn’t looking for it
But now I’m thinking of it
I was hoping that
I’d find you today
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I just wanted to be
A good man
Hard working
To have someone
Love me like that
Look upon me fondly
Lean into me
So that others could
See that love
Our love
But she wanted to
Compete
With everything
Is there also even
A competitor title
To be loved
To be the better lover
Without being there
To love you at all
I just wanted to be
A good man
And to be loved
But she couldn’t
Love me
She was too busy
Being the loudest one
In the room
The brightest star
Now I know
She wasn’t capable
At all
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True love never dies
How could it when
You’re so entrancing
I find myself cowering
Like a flower from
A sunbeam that is boiling
Frantic not to blindfold
Myself from your light
In an open all night church
On my knees asking
The universe to make a way
Acrimoniously without
All the pieces I had dreamt
Of disintegrating
Like sweet sugar on
Your flush hot skin
Smooth like amber
On my tongue
You can’t be genuine
If you’re not and I
Surmise that you are
Beyond belief
Abracadabra
Oracular a magician
Of sorts that stirs a
Fire in me belly
With your wand
Lighting the undergird
Of my spirit with a
Fortitude that beholds the
Salt of your earth
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It’s easy to talk big
But I can jump in
Really hard and mean it
The important thing is
Not whether you can
Believe me but
If you can remember
Anything can happen
The great peel of excitement
Is always slipping off
The edge of my tongue
And often times
I end up
On the floor somewhere
But how do I get there?
Trust and honesty
Being trustworthy
Of anticipatorily redeeming the qualities
It doesn’t matter anyway
The dirt comes off the heel
In the same way
Every time
With a rinse and a scrub
I won’t shut down for
Any lack of what was hoped
But what was hope
What is hope?
Sometimes like smoking
The dope of someone’s lie
Their inability to try
Or just a handsome cup
Of almost
Barely there, I…
Barely enough, I…
Why commit to anything
If you can be free to commit
To nothing everywhere
I want to meet someone
Who gives a shit
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Lack of a two step plan
Leaves me with a lot of
Don’t just say it
Because you think it’s
What I want to hear
I crave what I know can exist
But have no evidence
Of such bliss
Just tiny fragments
Of assembly
Or mirror images sparkling
Like crystal shards that broke
And fell down from the frame
Of which they came
And then were somehow
Glued back together again
Onto the dress or the suit
Of an other
On a garment
That looks back at you
Like the stars do
Glimmering with
Desire and hope
A small favor
To ask from a big
Cup of possibilities
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Poétique 