Poétique

One More Day

I don’t feel rushed to say hello
I don’t feel rushed to say goodbye
I don’t feel rushed in any way
I really want to take my time

One more hug
One more kiss
One more chance
To grant this wish

Fulfill this moment with your sweet
Fragrant delicious existence
Climb my mountain
Raid my caves
Explore mysterious terrain
The artifacts inside my head
Will open up to your refuge
I’ll serve you tea
I’ll make you food
Calm your demons
Soothe your mood

Emerging in your eden
Gardening your tender soil
Wipe your tears
Hold your heart
Excavate your every part

To be your clouds
To fill your sky
Offer a safe haven at night
Rest in my arms
Knowing I’m there
When you awake
From your slumber

Breakfast in bed
I’ll kiss your head
Massage your fears and cares away
Don’t hurry off
Why don’t you stay
Another hour
One more day

Strength

Giving up is not an option
When you want the things you want
But if the pieces just won’t fit
You will prevent what’s meant to come

Holding on as tight as possible
May show your strength indeed
But letting go may be the kind of
Strength you actually need

The Happy Couple

Go away from the pain but you can’t
Because it’s living inside and
All around every part of you
Trying to be loved deeply
Trying to be considered
Met with a feeling
That barely
Scratches

The surface of who we are as a couple
Relies on our ability to touch one
Another with our words and
When the words you speak
Leave me out of our
Equation because
You’re so busy
Making us
Believe

The truth is something that it’s not
Something you’ve made up for
Us to argue about and I don’t
Have anything left to fight
With I just want to be
Capable of enjoying
My day and I
Can’t even
Do that

With you asking me to answer questions
About yourself that you already know
The answers to, what is this?
Your attempt to make me
Lie to you so you don’t
Have to know the truth
Because the truth
Would set us free
But only if you
Accept what
It means

A Toast

The happy martyr climbs through
Vines of emotional turmoil
Overjoyed by humble grace
Awakening the ability
To remind myself

I’m not perfect

Releasing the pressure that builds
Keeping up with everything that
Requires me to be incapable of
Making mistakes
Dissipates

And now a toast to all the
Accidents that happen so that we can

Reevaluate who we are and
What our true meaning
Longs to be received as

I am the happy martyr that will not
Hold what I don’t know against myself
I learn from you and you learn
From me

Eternity is the gown
We wear together

This Dance

Why do I only want
To dance with you?

I dance for you
As if morning will never come
I dance for you
As if you are the only one

My feet move toward you
In a way that my body
Can’t say no
Like a servant to your essence
The conga of your heart
Is beating in my soul
My excitement
Can’t resist
What is this?

The drums are like earthquakes
Between us
The rhumba and rhythm
Completes us
Your smile rocks the floor
Of my reason
Your scent is a sexual
Teasing

The ballroom is calling
A concert of falling
Stars all reflect in your hair
And your eyes have a
Sensual stare
This brings lust to
My nose from my head
To my toes
I am yours to request
And to kiss
What is this?

A breakdance romance
A dance hall of fate
A Bollywood state
A kismet flamenco
Aphrodisiac tango
A disco of bliss
A sensual itch
I can’t figure it out
What is this?

I dance because dancing relieves
All the feelings
I’ve conjured about you
In this dance hall of thirst
You’re my weakness
My curse
A retreat for my pulse
A passionate
Handsome distraction

Dancing sets free
Sizzling heat
Within me
Soothes my appetite for
Always wanting you more
These erotic emotions
Enflamed
Deep inside
What cannot be
Contained

You’re exquisite

Spring Free

Your love blows the branches
Of destiny and pleasure around me
Cradle rocks the lullaby
White winter
May soon fly by
But your concrete feet
Stand taller than the sky
To say goodbye
To any distance
From the breath
Throughout your leaves
Your plant sings sweetly
About the bird
That serenades within the tree
Of never knowing
How it will rise
In perched commitment

Friend or Lover

We are probably very different
In some ways
But very similar in many others
Could you love me like a lover
Or rather love me as a brother
Is it bizarre that I can accept
Either?

To not get lost
I would choose you
In one way or another

Although I think of you first as a lover
I can accept you as a brother
A spirit of kinship
Someone to teach
Someone to teach me
Full of ideas
To keep the touch even
As friends

Let go of questions
And arrive

Before the end

As we are
Let it be from life to come
Answers drop down
From the sky
Though disguised
Let it go
Let it flow
In a natural way
Let it evolve
Days uncounted
Years to stay

What is a best friend
After all
What is a lover
Have we fallen
What is the difference
Of another?

Are they the same
Can we find out
Are they related
In some way
Only time can tell
But to ask you
No

I cannot yet

Risking to lose you
By my asking
Isn’t worth it

Risée

Passant des gens anonymes
Me souriant
Vais je rencontrer quelqu’un d’autre?
Du lait descend la colline
Avec grand vitesse

Une calèche d’orgueil
Retourne à pour me recueillir moi
Je ris profondément
De moi

Toutes ces vaches se moquent a regarder
S’enfuir
Du lait descend la colline
Libre du lait
Libre de la foule

Comme je me réveille de mes rêves
Je plisses mon lit
Dans le milieu de la nuit

In Our Blood

Fall into an altered state
Golden hat for two
Crackling embers of a fire
If I composed a letter today
I would write one out
And send it off to you
Intention in every stroke
Every overcurve rising with my
Innermost thoughts
Every descender every slant
A heartfelt manuscript
Even the ink would be blessed
But I don’t know your address
I’m not sure where you reside
I watch the things you scribe
From a distance
Like watching the geese
Disappear in the mist
Of the morning fog
Your words gather in
Flocks of love
This way and that way
I am thunderstruck
Before the storm
The stove is warm
Inside my eyes
As I watch you prepare
A feast for the heart
Words the sweet divine
Passes through you
I see you too
Have the Gods in your blood
Creation is love
Love is divine
What is it like
To be with you?

The space between us
Is in particularly
Beautiful
Would it be a mouthful
If we were together?
It doesn’t really matter
I don’t know where you dwell
Perhaps it’s the in the sky
Underneath a shell
Somewhere in the sea
Or on an island waiting
For a letter just
From me

Missing

The grass is growing
Differently today
The air is rather still in a
Motionless array
The birds are very quiet in the sky
There’s not a lot of traffic
Driving by

The sun is pink and blue
Like a captain on a ship
The bowsprit of a unicorn
On a magic carpet trip
Flying by with wings

Is this reality
Or just another dream?

A swift illusion of the mind
Dancing through the winds of time
There is only one conclusion
My thoughts can seem to find

I must be thinking
Of you again
I must be missing you
My friend

I watch the clock

Fantasy in real-time
When I think of you
Memories of us
Flowers dancing in a group

Hand sewn tapestries we made
Fanning in the breeze
Promises to hold on
To each other endlessly

Deeper than just feeling
Friendship knit with grace
A cosmic love that’s so divine
The stars in outer space
Are bowing down

When we embrace

I miss your laugh
I miss your smile
I miss your face
And all the while

I must be thinking
Of you again
I must be missing you
My friend