Waking My Love

All of the emotions
That we are having
Are not definite and final
They are experiences
Acceptance to the fact
That in all of our deficits
This is just where we are
Right now is
Learning from our surroundings
Recalling what we see
Reminding me that
I believe I’m in love
With your soul
Whatever that means
Can I also be afraid
Of your body
Can I also be afraid
Your touch
Can I also be afraid
Of your words
Why do we crave
For what to be
Is to be
Loved by someone
Sullenly or sweet
Wanderlust somewhere
Towards a planet
That is near
For which that
Can also be forgotten in
Sunlight shadows
Can replace even the gods
Appearing beneath the gallows
Thick with shame
To reckon and reclaim
All those who ill a will
For us to fly
Even if with our
Broken wings
Beyond any doubting doubt
Could brush past the tops of
Soft and sacred trees
Make cedar sweet
The lover in me
Creeping unannounced
So pleasantly
Heaven came loose
Last night
Abreast reluctant passion
Endless was the strumming
Of pooled guitars
Lit up by stars
Beautifully blazed
In mirrored lullabies
Like a favorite bedtime story
Rhyming our illusions
As dark nooks shined
With love contusions
Nervous perfection
Singleheartedly resigned
Skipping to beats
Of inharmonious
Drummed chimes

© GÄ

Trusting You

I trust your word is truth
We are innocent the two of us
We have not experienced
Any of this
Thinking there could be
Something more
Is just a part of what
Our compassion
Wants to be
You would think
Bodies and minds
Could change this geography
But we’re both on the same rock
Standing together
Accosted by love
Scarlet centuries
Of plural existences
Like a geometric heart
Erected in the universe
Inescapable affects
Of pure certainty
I trust your word is truth
Look out for me
I’ll be looking out for you

© GÄ

At Your Door

Tripping over your touch
Discordant notes play
The room is echoing
With our voices
Exhilarated as
Tightrope dancers
Even would be
Forgiving mistakes
While playing hopscotch
As we fill our dinner plates
With mended meals
Light up the candles
Count to four
Your words shall
Pour out
Like favorite wine
Even if I never knew
Your real name
Running out of time
I would still call you
My other
Without horses
Without wagons
Barefoot across
Hot summer sand
Or broken glass
Even as cruel as winter
Promised to be
On frozen toes
That’s how it goes
When all that matters
Is to bring you
One sweet rose
I handpicked for you
A cane of thorns
For our protection
When I meet thee
At your door
Before we share
A musical kiss

© GÄ

Yellow Eyes

Yellow eyes
Looking for that golden light
Glowing back at me
From you
Arching up
Across the border of
Your sky
Thrusted above
Floating up
An out of body reflection
Hidden behind
What whispers gleaming
Where yellow eyes
Are casting glimpses
Secret messages
I have no words for thank you
Your touch
Is more than mere words
Could describe
Listen to all worry
Float away
Shining once again in your
Law of pure integrity
Listen to all worry
Float away
You are bright
You are not mine
You are not mine

© GÄ

Unabandoned

Our bodies stumbling around
Dragging each other about found
In the banks of a luscious land
Bewildered in a space filled with
Floating lanterns and dripping states
Your commands give me delight
Without trouble without stress
Shimmering without duress
Suffusing joys and sorrows
Suddenly expanding
Woven slightly before midnight
We are a parachute withstanding
Unabandoned love

© GÄ

Make Me Alive

Make me alive
A wise fool in your eyes
Peel me away
Like the paint
From the oldest building
You’ve ever come to stride
Pressed up against your brow
In twilights death
Glowing in the spire
Of many decades
Yet to be perceived
In cardinal choirs
I realize the devil
Went down to Georgia
To release you from your pact
To someone else
In what exact chamber
Of glowing heat
Could ever your heart beat
Without the Mayberry bed
Of rubies beneath the belly
And the back of any beast
Red and yellow leaves
Performing twisty dances
To their death on cement night
Make me alive

© GÄ

Life

Die from fright
Dramatic music
There’s a tremble
There’s a shake
And then it’s gone
A week long
One week
How can we die
Tumbled off in a rush
Crumbled until the theory of us
If suffering from knowledge becomes
Freedom in understanding
Through wisdom
I cut through
No need to accomplish
What love has already done
Love letters written
To restore my deepest core
Sketchbooks illustrate
Living my best life
In a field of zithers
Reeds singing
Rising to glisten
My heart will listen
Grab it back
Taking hold
Snap attack
My sweetest fold
Sliding through the
Zigzag path
Called life

© GÄ

Underneath

Wondering winks
Hands grab
Final distinct
Between my teeth
Acting like grownups
The night comes fast
Pulling up the covers
Hanging out our feet
A perfect gravity
For stretching
Love for each other
In marvelous ways
A mighty rage
Breaking into perspectives
Of perspiration
Adult decisions
Wet on the skin
In all the light
Of dreaming
Softly in these sheets
Faux feathers
Plush beneath
Our heads
Scarlet sins
Naked wins
Lush lyrics
Pillared in love
Underneath

© GÄ

Heartbeats

In the soil of our ancestry
Electrocardiography
As we sharpen our knives
Though blood may be drawn
And we stand in demise
Choose for yourself
Whom you will be served by
Beyond the rivers
And seas and the skies
I am hunting stars for you
Rolling dice at the moon
Without treachery
Plump with the elixir of love
Consumed in the archives
Of human nature
Consecrated in unbearable darkness
With your eyes as my light
At the end of the tunnel

I wake up
I fall asleep

I wake up
I fall asleep

So we go into
This indelible recognition
For good and evil
Never too proud
Just sobering
Magnificent perspectives
Drawn in by undeniable
Joy and chaos
That is the precipice
Of our hands unfolding
In a forest of duality
And equally measured
Heartbeats

© GÄ

With Grace

Here’s a new covenant
Maybe I care less
Maybe there’s no reason to care more
If we already care enough
It’s also important to learn
Not to give a shit
So much of my life has been
Caring so much
What if caring too much
Left no room for mistakes
Left no room for badass moments
Maybe a pandemic is
The perfect opportunity
To learn how to be free
Such is the way for a flower to bloom
In the soil of badass moments
And a quest to hold onto
The sensitivity I have gained
But now the inner strength
Of self discovery
No longer bending over
To be walked all over
Maybe too much for some
Is my personality
And maybe
It’s time to be okay with
How I am
To feel okay with the excitement
Embrace the strength
Breaking out wild and soft
With grace

© GÄ