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Unsure

How did you break into
My chambers glistening ants
Feasting on my heart
Solitary path lambent
With somber strides
Gliding up my legs
An enterprise of sacred light
Despite the solo climb
Remains a less treacherous
Vine to propel and travel on
Widespread enveloping
The sky before we die
A theater of mystery
And a mouthful of clarity
I am defenseless
Against your wishes
I wear our shared emotions
Like a coat that I can
Take on and off
Too much to handle
To cold without it
It could be a windfall
Of feelings to be catching
Before we truly know
What it feels like to be in pain
If it’s in the absence of a love
We are unsure how to feel

Love Again

There could be more
There could be less
At least two reasons why
Inherently decided
To remove the training wheels
Also say no to the fast track
Mitigate me
Greatly reduced
Microcosm
Seduce me
To endure the
Problematic existence
Up the staircase to the end
Down the hill just to begin
I can’t strategize the
Missing puzzle piece
Buried under a pillow
Somewhere other than here
There could be two of us
Taking this moment in
Two new people looking
Out the window together
Surround heart sounds
Seduce me again
I have an inkling
This is the best beginning
No need to play pretend
If we find love again
Lightening strikes twice

From Doom

It’s how the story goes
The most beautiful self
You cannot share the rose
Too beautiful for the world
When your flower arises’
Hands take lead to heed
And in stolen demise
Tear away at the stem
Your vibrant arms
Your flower of life
They hoard for themselves
Your beautiful light
Those fiery petals
Rising up towards the sky
Are twisted off and pocketed
In a burglars surprise
Reach out to protect you
I will arouse what you gift
To require your safekeeping
Before the bandits of life
Twist off the remaining love
Snap off your precious sight
Come round ringing
The kissing bells
Circular fire blooms up
Stepping over the devil
As you light up the room
Impeccable love to stand guard of
From doom the flaming wings
Of the angel uncovered
Exposed you are to me

Sun Rise

I can see the sun rise
In your eyes
What a bittersweet flame
Warms the heart
But cannot chase the parts
That are deeply reaching
Like stretching for the sky
To feel the blue
Inside but not to actually
Touch it
I can see the amber light
Glowing round the edges
Of your eyes
Your ivory smile on the
Ridge of my lashes
So close to feel the warmth
Just far enough away
To befriend the breeze
Whisking over and around me
Highlights of gazing yellow
Fluorite gemlike streams
Glistening wet your eyes
Are shining in the night
And though the outside whites
May be reflected in
A moon like serenade
A quiet horizon of gold
Remains in flames
I can see the sun rise
In your eyes

Near You

I remember I recall
Maybe I know nothing at all
I like to consider
The time before
I was wishing
Turning back the clock
But not so desperately
Anchored in the memory
If my eyes were open
I might have seen
The rise
I have a feeling
I was dreaming
So my eyes were shut
But I remember what
It was like before
Collectively we’re
All becoming more aware
Looking backwards
Future aware
Panting
Is this real
No backing down
Breathing heavy
How many times now
I’ve remembered
How it feels to be
Near you

For Light

Words on a mountain
Chest to chest
Bone to bone
Insurmountably inside
A quiet terror to surmise
When the point of exit
Is impossible to find
Somewhat lost at sea
Energetically reprieved
By the traffic that surrounds
Every tire that forebodes
An accident of circuitry
A heart attack no one can grieve
Carefully reintroducing
Drops of love like alchemy
One drip at a time
Streamed into the vein mainline
Running fast beyond the sordid
Greed of unjust wars
On shame and lust
Swole up into a canyon of trust
Here comes the sun
Say hello to the light
Say goodbye to the dark
Let the fangs of the perfidious
Past slither away in the grass
Of history gone by
No matter how many decades
Former fate
Previous destiny
New bridge
One broken window
Is another opening
For light

You Again

As the sound of the door opened
My head shifted to the side
And a piano played it’s keys
Like the steps to a museum
Going deep underground
Into the bellows of a sanctity
Found only in the vicissitude
Of a successful dynamic leading
To the bloodline of the heart
In an ancient tomb curled up
At the base of your artifact
A cool breeze whispered through
As the sound of the door opened
And a butterfly came through
There was a message
Something about where to meet you
I can’t remember now but
It wasn’t considered the most
Important thing to recall
For I am sure to find my footing again
When I wrap my way back
To the place where I began
There would be two friends
Holding each hand and a memory
Hanging like a pendulum
Above me distant and overhead
Swinging with the wind
As the sound of the door opened
And I saw your face again
Like the water streaming over
Glass and eyelashes smeared
Against the wet with just
Two small beats occurring
Every other second as a heart
Might beat again in the sonogram
Of a sun and the whipping
Of the wind as the door opened
To the miracle of seeing you again

It Just So Happens

It just so happens that I
Like the taste of salt
But share I not of your tears
For they are both sacred
A revolution endeared
In the obvious clearing
Of a love grove manifested
By the planting of such trees
One by one in an orchard
That needn’t be mentioned
Further past my lips
Than the whispers to your ears
Perhaps you remember me
Once upon a dream
Floating through your memory
By cause most likely
Difficult to see but certainly
You have an image of a time
We spent together when
You were feeling what some call
A reverie of momentary joy
And the cloth between us is cream
And the words between us
May seem of Sanskrit ages
Old and antique like the rotted oud
Of the most beautiful tree
Tangled up in our hearts for
All kingdoms to see where
The blood of roses pool up
Into our great eternity
It just so happens you see
You might remember me

You Are Love

Before we expire
Before I predict the future
What were you trying to say to me
Through the fire in your eyes
That I am loved?
That I should not be solitary
Confined to a hopeless heart
A chamber of nothing and ashes
Reduced to the end of an empty glass
Or the last ember of a flame
Cancelled by my own nature
Could you pray for me
Could you ask the spirits to
Send someone to love me
For who I am and would it be
More than a fantasy to know
That even in all the good that has been
Anointed in me by the hands of
True love on my head of rectory
That I should know love the way
A flower sees the sun
That I should know no shame
The way a rose opens up to the wind
That I should fall in love with love
The way that nature has no name
Or that creation should bow down
On the sheets of amber grains
And cry tears of rain to the earth
Where from each drop that drips
Will grow the love over rose hips
Whispering again before we expire
You are love

More Than Once

Nefarious love punch
Forbidden touch
Stakes are low
Roaming heart
Risking nothing
To lose everything
Shielded emotions
Look towards the shadows
Cast down by trees
Overlooking hollow fields
I recall your strawberry lips
Ripe and innocent
Stripes of feelings
Hanging from my neck
Lethal distractions
Leaning into the flames
We are not depraved
As the fly and the spider
Stand facing
Trade places
Share spaces
Love and dark light
Finding your touch
In the night
Between cold sheets
Warm hands will meet
More than once