Palm

Like the page
Of an ancient scroll
When I read yours
Do you wonder what I know?

Follow the eclipse
The credence light
The crescent spill
The way it feels

The texture of your soul
In stark silhouette
I can hear the echos
Of your past
On my finger tips

Dimmed in flesh
Emissaries drinking light
You hold the present and the past
In your chalice palm tonight

Like the stones of
Ancient pathways
I stroll the fountain
Of your heart line

Birds are singing
Songs along the phalanx
Of your lifeline
Horses riding in the sun
Laughter thrones the drum

Forked in passionate mystique
A split between artistic need
Flowering in a garden that
Reveals itself beneath
The soil in your nails

If all else fails
Your signature is a monument
Scant of disbelief
As warm as honey
Swarms the majesty
Of bees in guitar strings

A melody you know too well
There isn’t much for me to tell
Fold your hand in mine
And walk with me
Throughout the sands of time

© GÄ

Remorseful Hug

Interrupted by your need
To feel bound
To hold someone
So they won’t get close to me
What is by force this comfort?

Look through the binoculars
It is a similar distance to touch
What you are afraid to drop
Afraid to love even if
He could have loved you

A little pathetic, right?
Or is it just sad to watch
Claim what’s not yours
Block light
Cover the truth
What do we gain
If we really lose?

A hug full of remorse
Only for you
Not for him
Not for me
Because sharing
Friendships is
Incredibly scary
For you

I could give you
A quiet kiss
The one you wouldn’t have to feel
Not a little
But your fear
Would only corrupt this

Love is for everyone
Not just for you
Is my light too bright
Am I troubling you?

Should I create a mist of love
Are you disappointed?
Embrace full of remorse
Only to wake up the same
I’m too old for such a game

The child became the man
I wish you the same thing
At all costs
Let go of your jealous roots
Open the French doors
Before the lie soon
Breaks you

You can’t stop love
And take it away from someone
It won’t do more for you
A hug full of remorse
By a resentful boy

You lock me outside

Stepping in the way
With all your insecurities

But like a child
I am innocent and pure
I just want to love
Why do you hurt me so

No, not even this will stop me

© GÄ

Picture

Even without knowing you
Your smile comforts me
How can this be
If we
Have never met?

I envision a
Picture of my life
With you
Through your eyes

Professor
Poet of the heart
I can pretend
Learn how to be patient
In the possibility
From today

Mostly tomorrow
Though I don’t know you
Do the insides
Match the outside?

North of the equator
An image that aspires
To fulfill a passionate desire
Located on the
Continental crust of my future

A picture of what transpires
Yet make believe
If I don’t know you

To see our smiles together
Friendly

Will you finish with
A photo in my life?
I feel a tropical heat
Plateauing through
Your teeth

A beautiful smile
That comforts me
How is it possible?

How I would like
For us to meet…

© GÄ

Enchanted Loom

Climb through
My dreams the canvases
Claim the desire to
Understand you
Make it comprehensible
The subconscious
Turning
In my stomach
Feed my thoughts
Burning inside
Spinning wheel
Of flumes
My consciousness
It tells me everything
Left to my interpretation
Moonlit my throat
Swallows to see
Look inside the third eye
From my heart
I’m hungry to know you
What you want to say
Even my dreams
Can’t tell me
These kinds of
Things

In a Tuscan maze

I walk the Earths womb
Darkness and light
Quietly on tiptoe
In each sickness
Frightful not to know
Never knowing really
What I don’t
But I won’t put
Our book of secrets down
The wand is waiting
Overflowing with answers
For our love
Just at the forefront
Packed up
Like a chrysalis
Caught in your
Enchanted loom
Voodoo dust
A caterpillar
Ready to burst
Feet extended
Tongue curled up
Doorframe to window
Web strung resilience
A quilted heart
Swept away by your
Love broom

© GÄ

Little Heartbreaker

You love everyone
And no one at all
Do you still love me
I wonder

For what did we befall

I remember when
I was the best for you
Then I learned that
Being best meant
More than what I
Thought that I
Could do

I didn’t know
There was an expectation
One that I created
Loving you so much
Can do that I guess
Affiliation is
Indeterminable

Everyone is your best friend
I see everyone is the same
So who is special
Is there ever anyone?
What are the things you speak of
Grounded in?

What to believe…

You love everyone
And no one
Do you still love me?

The question comes up
In my pulse
When you walk by
Even though I know
There’s no definitive
Answer in any language

It’s easier to know that
If I step back I will hurt less
But I won’t miss you any less
Perhaps I’ll miss you more
I guess

And then again
There you are
Knocking at my door
Intertwined
In one another’s lives

Will you still be here in June
I often wonder if the sun
Poses the same face
To the moon

The morning after
We’ve seen so much
I watch you love
Any and all you want
It’s beautiful
To bear eyewitness to
Yet without any alliance
My heart feels broken
In this awkwardness
Defiant

Unsure
And yet I’m open
Because now
I can love you how
I want to
On my own terms
Even if you
Can’t return
It’s similarity

Wearing many hats
Jack of all loves
I’ll watch you grow
And maybe someday
We’ll know

If you appreciated
What I tried to give your
Little heartbreaking soul

Huh

© GÄ

Because Both

Because I love
With individual form
My concern supersedes
Any possibility
For something to be
More important
Than you

Your influence
Inspires my delusion
To enjoy the alternative
Ways I have to call
To dispose of my feelings
For you throughout
All different moments

Every shell and case
Has a different impact
All are capable of
Effect or none at all

Both

© GÄ

SOS

Be smarter than the pain
Above it all
The tentacles cannot
Take us
Into the pit

Witness this

What we put the self through
Above it all
If you allow it to get the best of you
It wins
And you are no longer

Forbearing

Sirens
Above it all
Signals of distress
SOS
Backronyms
To taking good self care

International codes

This is a tool
Above it all
To help make you aware
Save our ship
Save our souls
Si opus sit

Save Our Selves

Not to bludgeon yourself up with
Above it all
Squandered love
Dissipated desires
Want for more
Settle the score

State of emergency

Non reactory to things
Above it all
Emotions that are being
Displayed
Toyed with
Said only for you to react to

Find your own way
Above it all
Any unwillingness to rise above
Self infliction
Caused by
Social interaction

Cuddles demise

Mind the curves
Above it all
Focus is
Above it all
Bleeding heart
Above it all
Doesn’t it feel good to ascend
Above it all
What did we come here for
After all

© GÄ

Cheers

Do the best that you can
with the time that you have
You say

Love the hardest you can
Especially when you don’t want to
We can

If you tell the truth as you know it
You will never have to defend a lie
Because

We all make mistakes

The more
We admit our mistakes
To one another
The easier it is
To make them
In front of
Each other

Inside
You’ll find a song
At the bottom of a well
That is holding a place
For you in a heart

My heart
With total acceptance

Will you send down
Your basin
Jump off of the swing?
I’m ready for
Our best beginning

Cheers

© GÄ

Marriage

Laughing
Caring for our home together
Breakthroughs
Flowers are growing

Arguing
We antagonize one another
We repeat the same lessons frequently
Trees are snapping

Stressing
We have contention
When we need a simple resolution
Cookies are burning

Confused
We cannot feel as close
As you are with your family
Memories are evaporating

But somehow…

Loving
We find each other
In the middle of a mesmerizing pool
Maddened rapids are subsiding

Float with me

© GÄ