Sandcastle

Is this what freedom feels like?
Pensive music playing
I could walk 111 blocks
Travel the longest corridor
Decorated in my freedom
How precious is this
More than a third grade excellence
Waking up without a care
In the world
No one but myself to report to
My favorite lapels
Extra pointy
Marching out into the morning
With the light of the universe
Apparently I’ve grown up
Turning porch lights
On and off on my own
Who is the Queen or the King
Of said pleasures
Even if to study the board
Or the game of life
Is it the sandwich that we share
Or the one we could enjoy
On our own
Perhaps to share a meal is better
But to share one with yourself
Is pretty damn good
Even though I should choose
To find new avenues
Nothing quite fits the pair
Of recognition and confidence
For where will we meet
If these players are to
Bask in their position
It cannot be found rightly
Without a little burn
A charming dance
Without accomplished
One handed buttoning
Down the front
Of a favorite jacket
It’s been decided
The playground is open
Have you any plans
How do you like to play with sand?

© GÄ

Floating

Being cosmic
Somber music playing
If you write a check
It will not guarantee
A rite of passage
A prettier funeral
Nor that anyone
Will attend
Light looks where
Transition follows
Will we need both hands
To return the sheaves
At the end of the day
Or do we reap the sentient perspective
After we crown the mission

I’m reading your reflection
In my ascent
Maybe after I rise
Past the trees
You will meet me like a single crow
At the top of one of these
Branches between the leaves
I have only twenty
Ways to get there
And one way to
Reach your heart
If you would be so kind
As to open your eyes

Savor the highlights
I have written the antidote
On the inside of
Your left hand

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Glorious

What glorious richness
A royal darkness
In amber light
Between the question
And the answer
Resuscitating bees
Immortalized
Obsessed with balance
It’s easy to believe
We can paint it and achieve it
Even in an improbable world
Is there a wooden rocking chair
That could honor this deeply?
Quill the rest of this
Existence with the end
Of a violin
Like a musical pen
Writing out
Fresh cut devotion
With the stems of your excellence
Dancing in the windows
Of your eyes
Bright yellow stars
Circling about
As if I’ve just stood up
Too quickly
In a head rush
Of your glorious richness

© GÄ

Call on Me

I spot the chills
I light your heartfields
With golden fires
While dusk is falling
Twilight is rising
Gazing at the
Hunter’s moon
I am your lantern
Sacred geometry
For you to hold onto
Along the way
Even when the devil prowls
I will be your roaring
Availing luminary
Power

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Noxygen

Keep your evil sticky tongue
Away from me
You only want to tear me down
To make yourself feel more complete
Keep your evil nasty tongue
Away from me
You are one who can’t be trusted
You are bitter
Only ruled by jealousy
Keep your evil daggered tongue
Away from me
You are a phony
You are a liar
Desperate for attention
Always ready to conspire
Saying almost anything
I know the type
Who likes to gripe
Keep your evil trickster tongue
Away from me
You are deceiving
Manipulating
I would be worse off
Now to know you
I want no part of your upheaval
I want no part of what is evil
You’ve made it clear
You have no room
For my love here

© GÄ

Not Everyone

Many moons ago
My grandmother had said
Not everyone is
Going to be your friend
Why don’t they like me
I’ve wondered to myself

Time and time and time again

You’re just too nice
I’ve heard some say
So I can’t stand you
Go away!

No matter where you go
No matter where you tread
You will always find a foe
Who will wish that you were dead

You don’t have to say or do
Anything to cause this truth
It exists solely with or without you

People will be jealous
People will be hateful
People will accuse you
Of many things
And act distasteful
You can be true to who you are
You can shine your brightest light
You can come at them with love
And they will hate you
Just for spite
There is nothing you can do
To convince them to love you
There are no words you can write
To open up their hearts and eyes

No matter where you go
No matter where you tread
You will always find a foe
Who will wish that you were dead
Many moons ago
It was my grandmother who said
Not everyone is
Going to be your friend

© GÄ

Underscore

Did you see the light before
Feasting on favorite hemispheres
Like warm baked challah
Twisted in the arch of
The mouth of your sky

I could be someone
Who has loved you
All your life

Mirrors reflect
The imagination of my heart
Like a flashing negative
Back and forth in the headlights
Travelling deer tracks
Unfurled with good ideas
Drifting light
Like the snow
Resting, melting
Slowly before heartbreak

No hocus pocus
Just hooves of
Indefinite wander

I could be someone
Who has loved you
All your life

© GÄ

Wild Tomorrow’s

Oh what glorious fun
To be overjoyed
Focus can only be
In one place
Waking up to
The next day
Standing in the same space
Same body
Same feet
Perhaps just a renewed person
Sharper than a sword
Gutting the heart
Filling it back up
Flower boxes
Hanging round the edges
Lots of thorns
For protection
One day feels like two
Yesterday was only
Moments ago
I urge thee to please
Your truest self
Echoed out into
The mercy of wild tomorrow’s
Golden avenues of
Lengthened sweetness
Even if you’re found too likable
To love

© GÄ

Nine-thirty

Everywhere I turn
Nothing to do
Keep busy with work
Where to find the fun
In a pandemic we
Must be creative
Listening to records
At home
Calling friends as
The sun goes down
Tomorrow comes back
Like yesterday
And fun is done in
The moment you create it
However you make it
Alone or in
The arms of someone
The air is still
Stagnant almost
Perfectly perfect
Nothing to stand in the way
Of what life is perpetuating
In a very unexhilarating way
The clock chimes
Nine thirty

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Abash

I don’t want to be marked
As your victim
I don’t want to perpetuate
Your misery
Your jealousy has no
Consideration from me here
Your desire to make me
Feel unwhole is clear
Unwelcomed be it so
I will need to take inventory
On what I announce
I will have to be careful
Of power, and oh
There should always
Be space
To express one’s true feelings
Spoken directly
I am not your victim
I am not your trash
I am not someone
For you to abash

© GÄ