Category: poetry

To Be Nice

Thank you is enough
Prolonged deep in
A pining heart
Feel no loneliness
Emptiness still tries to
Claim a seat at the table
Uninvited
We learn how
To protect the self
From that feeling
A certain kind of
Person can give
Like a punch in the gut
Want to climb out of
My body feeling
Bad leftovers
Resist the vampire
Charm the smile and
The swarming in of a
New friend holding
Out their arms
But only there to
Clean out your goods
Take hold of whatever
Risky business
They want and manipulate
You into their
Emotionless map
Feelingless trap
I’m waiting for
Something real
Unquestionably so
We don’t have to lay
On top of one another
We can sleep
In separate corners
I only need us
To be nice

© GÄ

Winning

Neptune please why won’t
Someone just love him
“She cried,”
Listen to my pleas
Is this a race
For us to see
Who can hold out for
The longest and if so
What’s the point in that!?
But with grace on my knees
Not until we’re
All blue in the face
Put your lips on him
Your arms surrounding
Giving every drop of love
This purple moon has been found
To shine down upon
Inside you have more to give
Received empathetically
Don’t hold back
Relentlessly
Free the good
Reach inside from within
Everything you have
Is rewarded
To win

© GÄ

Electric

A little less crazy
A little less psycho
A little more mindful
With you
Disheartened by
Virtually nothing
Dark nights on the port
While the railway runs
Keep transporting
Crashing underneath
The stars like
Kindred spirits
Beneath the surface
Of the city lights
Where the water pools
And the rain delights
Milk and honey
Drips across the lips
Of a ponderous kiss
Your head on my chest
My best is at rest
With the crook of
Your neck in the grasp
Of my hands as the pulse
Of the power lines dance
Between us electric

© GÄ

Lovetrip

The clumsy gentleman
Lost his way
When glowing eyes
Deceived a gentle touch
To storm in
Without regard
To their master
A host of orange light
Expands around
The outside without glare
A free love stare
Fingerprints on the heart
Frequencies beat
Down through his feet
Into the street
Feel the vibrating sound
I’m glowing
You’re glowing
We’re glowing

© GÄ

Somewhere

How does it strike the chord
Inside how does it find that
Place I’ve been looking for
City lights wind on my face
The perfect song looking
Up into outer space
How does it remind me of what
I’m trying to find and for
How long will I be seeking
What I hoped to find since my
Youth and still haven’t been able
To touch just out of reach
But you know it’s there
You hear the words you feel
The notes inside and you
Know it’s around the corner the
Connection but you don’t know where
Somehow blowing through the sky
Reach out and wait to see
If the two align because it
Seems like everything about
Me knows it could be true holding
In my hands caught up in an era
The date that waits to
Meet the fate of you
I could be good for you
You could be good for me too

© GÄ

Who We Are

We only pretend to be friends
So it’s not weird if we don’t
And from the outside looking in
Everyone believes that we’re friends
The truth hurts

We only give in because we need
Certain things but it’s true
If I had to assume you would be there
I know not to rely on you
That’s real

I feel better knowing that I lie
In hopes of how you are behind
My back and fake tears that are cried
Because I don’t have to wonder
If you have plans

My heart says keep it to yourself
I feel the opposite behind your mirror
I sense that you respond completely
And antithetically to me
That’s just you

I could drink to kill the pain or to
Forget that you’re insane but then
I’d just wake up again to face
The ultimate fact of the matter
It’s just who we are

© GÄ

No Clue

There is a cat a dog and a bird that accompany me
They remind me of how much life there is to love

Each has their own voice and here I attempt to find my own
The glare of the past shadows their sweetness

I’m living a life that I could be taking for granted
My inner voice asks if I remember how I got here

A bright but grey morning inspires a joy that begs to be lived before noon
Even if it’s impossible
The smell of pines firs and fragrant needles reminiscent to heaven

Swirl around back and forth between my ears which are too busy listening
To notice
If a thunderstorm should shake the earth thoughts would form dreamscapes

I could have wished for this before the alien ship dropped me off

Chosen family a beautiful garden and all the music

What do we know about where we came from!? The clouds above form shapes that answer questions to who I am

But still nature appears to know more
If I could have picked this life to live before I was born into it
I would have chosen you even though I have no clue to your appearance

I would look for you in the hammock chair reading outside in our private garden
A completed picture
The necessary part that shares the memory I can’t look back on
Without you in it

© GÄ

I’m Not Like That

If you can’t have your way
You disappear
Am I like that?
Do you want to punish
People around you
By taking away your love?
Am I like that?
Do you gain anything
By refraining from
Sharing your love?
Showing up for someone
In a capacity that is
Selfless and greater
Than the best you
Give yourself
In my assessment
You give yourself nothing
By taking away
Burning your plane
Crash and your going down
In flames by proving your
Point or is your point to
Remind me that you
Have no point to prove
Because you’re not
A pencil however
If you had one would you
Write me a letter?
Would you show me every word
Or would you erase some
Of what you feel
Am I like that?
I want to tell you everything
There are no second chances
No closure can be found
If we’re living on no man’s ground
I’m not like that

© GÄ

About It

Along the coast of memories, a
Mindful plot, the heart dances
In between the light, a palm,
Orange horizons and sand
Heart releases the past into the salted sea
Now hours of weeks and months
Break free into floating miracles until
The current can thrust and pulse alone
While each are reasonably intertwined
Outflowing as the crystal moon predicts
Dusk cradles crested love
Liberation from telephone wires

© GÄ