I’m not one to burn bridges
I’m more into building them
People can die when the
Scaffolding collapses
Lose our friends
Relationships end
Being with someone
Can also be lonely
Just as much as being
Alone can also fulfill you
Main cables stretched
Out into the sky like
Horizontal arms
Wishing to fly
Or at the very least
Feel something
Spun and strung
Between heart towers
Stacking rocks
Twisting the sky
Steel anchorages
Water sloshing against
Our bedrocks
It’s never to late
To try
© GÄ
Settling into myself
Such a strange sensation
To be genuinely happy
Not over concerned
Enjoy the moment
Oh of what we’ve created
Lived up to and
What we’ve done!
When do we realize
And step back
Take a deep breath
And enjoy everything
That we are?
Will life surpass us
Before it’s too late?
Fall out of the tree
Of expectations everyone
Has been growing
For you with
Conference calls and
Calendars just a
Basic phone call
Where our personalities
Intertwined and there
Is no evidence that
It ever took place
No record kept
Except for
You and me
No second guessing
© GÄ
Tear myself away
From the memories
Total recall see it fall
From the back of my mind
Water the ground
A million times more
What are you running
Away from?
Are you afraid of the truth?
Flowers would bare only
Honesty each petal
Nature doesn’t lie
To have hope and feel
That it’s broken when
It’s just not enough
Is there ever enough
Are you too much to love?
Checking back
Never too tired to see
Mornings don’t have the
Mother behind the kind
Two birds would request
From the nest of a tree
Free from lithium batteries
Slow vibrations
In the earth rattle
A hard but delicate ground
Trembling a heart that
Craves response and
To be heard that’s the
Greatest escape
Saying things to people
Who end up being no one
Because they never affirm
Your words how devastating
Only to wish that the ones
We believe we can find
Hope in are also broken
© GÄ
Marked by the sun
Solar child
Red ring of fire
His law is sound
Bound to the universe
Within legal knowledge
Invariable occurrence
Of natural phenomena
Established principle
Recognized usage
In no uncertain terms
Having useful ends
In view capable
Of useful actions
Keeping possible results
In mind i
In essence or effect,
Virtual messenger,
Forerunner
A token of future events
Infusing new life into
A sun-kissed
Undertone
© GÄ
To bring to nothing
It would be just as easy
Rid yourself of the weight
Eliminate the extra
Sitting in the middle
Contemplation on the fiddle
Mysteriously the thérémine
Hangs in the background
It hurts me so to know
What someone would give up
Just to save those around them
I guess we call that sacrifice
Turns me sour inside
We couldn’t know that
One day we’d be grasping at
Our past like desperate
Children wanting candy
Because it reminded us of
Our happiest times
To be loved and never
Need to think about
What is the future
To behold
Pay for advertising
Pay not to have advertisements
What kind of grown up joke
Is this environmentally
Money driven nonsense
What you wanted
You have it all
Except for one thing
To be loved on the couch
It’s not an experiment
Any longer it’s the
Actual result called
Living life
© GÄ
We step out
Beyond ourselves
To find forgiveness
In someone else
A different opinion
To be forgiven
I look to my heart
Tied to the universe
Married to the mother
And her children
The stars
Comfort my empty faith
How they cradle and bathe
My symphony of pain
How they give my whip rest
Arms of light about my chest
Forgive this human condition
Release your selfless victim
There is no worthy hostage
O, how the heart swells
With pure joy
When we free love
© GÄ
She was never
Going to apologize
For the pain she caused
Perhaps because she
Never thought she
Caused any
You can do amazing
Somehings and die
But can you do amazing
Somethings and stay alive?
We are all hoping in someone
To feel loved or appreciated
Cared by and for and there
Is no permanence to any of this
No credence for responsibility
Hold onto the memory
Of the possibility
To be thirty again still feeling
As if that was the beginning
And life wasn’t just about
Owning your own home
But loving and growing
Meeting someone new
Not trapped in the
Life that was supposed
To save you…
I leave notes on the doors
Of people’s phones by text
Hoping that they will
Respond but the world
Is too busy trying to
Keep up with itself
I am your biggest fan
Waiting for your comeback
If I begin to love you
Will you make me wait
Like everyone else
When I reach out to you?
Not everyone does
Keep turning right
The best position is
Just out of sight
© GÄ
We only see what
You want us to see hiding
Behind the computer screen
He didn’t feel amazing any longer
He was doing so many things
That he felt more numb and less fun
No one to tell him intimately
That what he did was super good
Or extra wonderful just himself
And his cat and his bird
The occasional neighbor
Would walk by the garden and
Say “oh how beautiful,
What a lovely place!”
Although it was nice
It wasn’t the same
He was hungry for love
And confirmation of his
Accomplishments from
A day to day someone
Who could look and confirm
That he was indeed amazing
No more scary stories on
Television life was scary enough
Surrounded by the love of others
He was still missing one more
Piece to the puzzle it was the
Beauty and daily ritual
Of the special kindness
Of another but no clue of who
When or where not impossible
But feels like a lifetime away
Time to start over in another
Place in another town in a
Different country further away?
© GÄ
You cry because
You miss him
But do you
Cry because
You miss me?
Does it make
Any difference that
I’m alive
And he is gone?
Would you,
Cry because
You miss me
But not cry because
You miss him
If I was gone?
No longer human
Just an ether
We miss what we
Can’t have and
Forget about what
Is always there
Because we’re human
We mourn the dead
And forget the living
Like the end of summer
It’s not over till it’s over
Can we love the living
Just as we
Mourn the dead
Mourn me
Be with me
As I want to be
With you
While we’re still
Here
© GÄ
Some days I feel like I am
Living in a body that has
Already had its funeral
I can be more amazing
Than I am behaving
Befuddled by my own
Momentary lapse of
Seizing the instant
Someone wise said to me
Seeking no and
Being told no creates
Cracks and that’s how
The light gets in
Our failure is the only
Way we learn
Be satisfied with yes or no
Because you’re going to get
What you’re going to get
Regardless
Perhaps they’re not my words
But they become our words
When we own them and
Adopt them into
Our spiraling cores
Which says
Everything is everything
Into the ground
Up to the sky
© GÄ
Poétique 