Poétique

Between

Tears that I could cry
I would cry
But I don’t
At least I mean
That I cannot
Cry them in sadness
Heretofore
Because the love
That has consumed me
Is beyond what any
Sadness could appeal to
Tears of joy employing
Richness that
Drips like amber
From my eyes
Bees trapped in
Sunlight every drop a
Godlike miracle delight
That saturates our
Glistening cheeks
Viscous honey warm serene
Puddled pools of gold convene
Running along our shoulders
Down the length of
Our thought deep wraparound
Love swinging arms
Descending tungsten
Fueling light
Caressed by morning bright
Sidewalks as are our spines
Resembled stairways walking upward
Divinely sliding down
Saged in ceremonial
Crowns pointed with
Bells that ring resounding sing of
Birch white ritual dreams
Glowing through the
Citrine kingdom we
Are building
In between
You are my hive
You are my king
We are the quintessential
Possibility

Push Start

Before the mountains were born
You brought me the world
A thousand years
Ferris wheeled into a day
As I watch you sleep
Peacefully in the night

Cradled in sheets blithe
With memories we have
Yet to anticipate
A breath before we breathe
A step before we climb
Forward to take
Another bite
We weave our potent fate

To grasp how wide
How long and high
How deep is this love
To know our passion surpasses
Broken and fixed knowledge
You fill me to a measure
Of exceptional fullness

Beyond what human existence
Can tally you are the
Darkest brightest dust
I’ve ever held
A composure of what seems
To glorify the gentlest
The kindest most
Tenderly being

How do you write your love script?
How do you make my heart skip?
How can we be this casually
In tune with nature’s flute

When the vines of yesterday
Crawl up our legs rooted in the
Soil of four foot intertwined souls
Thundering for the greater whole
Muddy with unexpected delight
Each bloom that unfolds
To tell our story is a petal
Floating sideways
In the galaxy of
Our hearts

This is how you make me
Push start

As if to Coarse

Interpretation for an early bed
When I think of you like this
Capture the essence of
The warmth from your kiss
I am here in your arms

If I found another space in time
Where ultimatums rest
To feel your heart strike against
The beat beneath my chest

Where question came to me in wonder
Which would you choose to know?

Which room will you
End up in physically?

I choose your door

Here’s a copy of my key
From me

At My Table

Sitting at the table
Looking back
On things I’ve learned
Things I know
And things that he
Could only show
In his way
And in his prayers
I can see
Why he means
The world to me

Oh in my grandfathers hands
And in his prayers

Bright Eyes

I know you’re there
I know you care
I querent the dividend

I hide behind the
Shy like guy pleasured

Where dost thou shine
Ones brightest eyes
Wouldst thou brightly beaming
Project a streamline spotlight
Love drenched in blue
Orn’t hazel green toward me
Amber brown lazy sheen
Like koko roses tipping down
Shine thou light
From whence around
And to forth glows
A vibrant static glistening
Illustrious semiconductor
Of passionate overtures

Into me

Where dost thou shine
Ones brightest eyes
When shyly looked upon
By someone who could love you
Infinitely

Is there a digital repose
For which to open your
Most diamond like gaze
To be keenly bestowed
Some morse code
How whilst I coax
Your darting iris rays
Your wet white scleras
Of which years of joy
May runneth over
Into my pear shaped
Heart

In That Room

Where do you go
When you have no where to turn
When up is a cup of pleasure
That ends at the break of dawn
Certainly what is good
Will come out of it
Still the will to want more
Can fall short at the door
Also fancy footwork
In the making
Choreographing the days
To mimic the moments related
To joy and wanderlust
In a bed full of friends
On a couch with no space
For even one more rear end
Squished into the happiness
The laughter that lasts
Forever and ever after
As the calendar flips along
And the days droll and flounder
Month after month
Year after year
Remember my dear
The fun that we had
Don’t get too caught up
Becoming the businessman
You are also a bright glowing
Human of light and love
That knows how to have fun
In that room that you once
Found yourself satisfyingly tuned
To the station of life’s songful
Loon and an instrument to
Discovery not just robotically
Filling out forms
Paying the bills
Though you may catch your thrills
In different ways than before
Remember my dear
Have some fun like you did
When you were a kid
In that room

Effort

Is it strange to say
This is the last piece
Reconnaissance to my
Opus of singularity
Finally the missing part
To claim my entire heart
The space back that
We have shared
The moments that
I dared to try
Would leave no room
For anyone else
To give it a go
As you know we
Gave it our all
This goodbye is not
Forever just a clever
Way to say see you soon
When you have your mountain
Your own throne to
Adorn yourself in
No longer will you need
Me to do this for you
And I won’t feel like I’m
Holding myself back to
Nouveaux chapters
I have yet to write
You will be a part of those too
Just in a different way
We can still play
Just in separate places
Different spaces
On different days
Boundaries
Remember I still love you
Yes even now
That the time has come
For me to share my love
In a different way
No need to live undercover
No need to hide what I feel
No argument
No expectation
Just a clean slate of
Clarity and many cakes
To eat in our own places
Nothing replaces our memory
We are still creating new ones
Just in a different way
This is effort

Tomorrow

Wherever did the wind blow
To sweep you cooly in
Wherever will the wind be
To escort you calmly out
The stress of the unknown
Yesterday
Exhibits pain from those
Not listening now
There is a voice inside
My head that tells me
Everything will be okay
Does the head say one thing
And the heart the other?
Is there only one voice or many
A lot of decisions
One true path
Just take a bath
Meditate and wait
Answer the question tomorrow
Don’t respond right away
Impulse says to
Take a deep breath
Tomorrow will arrive
At its usual hour

Here They Come

There are demons
In the streets
Sharpened knives and
Jagged teeth
Light casts hope upon
The fires that have donned
Our wicked truths
No hiding from
What darkness preys
Romance will slay
True love daggers
Flames of rage
Misinformation finds a way
Into the hearts
Into the minds
Of the innocent

Nothing & Everything

Nothing is the same
Everything has changed
Isn’t that what we said
When the sun rose yesterday
Everything is changing
Nothing is the same
But everything would mean nothing
If nothing ever changed
Watch the roses open
See her petals fall
Hymns are never changing
The church folks sing them all
Same birds always flying
Different ones for sure
Sometimes bees are dying
Making honey all the more
Bedtimes shift with seasons
Miracles they come ‘round
But surely they will go
Just as waters currents
Are ebbing as they flow
If ever we were living
In a world that never changed
What would we end up learning
Pass the times to rearrange?
I miss the friends I saw on Tuesday
But then again I miss the ones
From many many years ago
I’ll surely make some new ones
With forty years ahead or more
Everything is changing
Nothing is the same
But everything would just mean nothing
If nothing ever changed