Poétique

Hello

It’s not your fault I didn’t
Turn out the way
That you had hoped
You gave birth to me
Sometimes that’s just
The way the story goes
You don’t have to
Want to be close to me
You don’t have to want
To own any part of me
There doesn’t have to
Be any kind of us
All the parts of me
That are insouciantly
Annoying you can fade
All the parts of me
You wished were
Different in some way
Can go away
My soul cries only
Because we also
Share the same skin
The same skin although
We are of broken kin
The same bones although
We are of broken home
The same blood although
We are of broken love
It’s not your fault I didn’t
Turn out the way
That you had hoped
You planted your seed
In a soil that bleeds
Of radiant love
I am at home in myself
Although I have
No home to speak of

Lull

Closely related finches
On a grandeur scale
Of measure
Separate
We are not so
Willing but
If then swilling
We are finches
With a central
Focus from and in
Our best nests
Made of hair
Fur and leaves
Used for twisting
Measuring the
Flavor of our spirits
Singing we
Color a contract
Crayons of truth
Beaks crossbills
In outflow
A likeness
A prelude
And a dance
To intervening
The art of
Teaching
Learning there is
No fear of reaching
Rich and varied
Horizons
Ready to fly
Triangular
Very quiet
We are finches
In the sky

Bones

An encounter with a monster
And that’s how your life goes
All life was exhausted
All power is exhausted
Would you like…
Shoot me in the back of the head
Because I’m annoying
Would you like…
End my life because I’m boring
I must deserve to be destroyed
To you
I deserve better
I’m not an expert on what’s best
Great realization better than this
I need it to be well today
Who am I
It’s okay to be
Who we are
In a million ways
With a million stars
In your eyes I find myself
In light of my fate

Forest Bed

I have pictured your
Greatness beside me
I’ve imagined a closeness
To this
For this thirst I have asked
Life to quench all emotions
Inside me
Hit or miss the
Unpredictable kiss

If you wish for my lips
If you wish for my breath
Twice past holding out
For it all but to grasp on to this
Place your hand in
The heart of my dirt

The gardener to my love
Tending to the terrain
If you dive in to measure
The forest the grass will reveal
A moss bed for our pleasures domain

Wild twisted vines
Holding us up
If the world should try
To swallow us whole
My intentions are full
My intentions are full
To be with you is all
To be in love I would fall
With you

Apologize

Some people don’t
Deserve an apology
But we do it anyway
To take the higher road
Even when we’ve been
Wronged perhaps to
Walk away with a
Better version in our
Hearts for the way
It all went down
If to be the one that
Seeks higher ground
To forgive and find
The supreme road
To morality how can
We feel good if we don’t
How can we move
Forward when others won’t?
Some people may not
Deserve an apology
In our eyes but we do it
Anyway to liberate
Our own demise

Mesmerized

Mesmerized I emulate
The motion of wild horses
I am reminded of the wind
Catching the best of my
Beginnings along the fold
Of terra and the line of
Sublime earth and grass
We pass through the
Flickering memories
Telling the story of what
Places we have yet to
Recall and to behold
Until tomorrow comes
We look back on the ones
We could be alone at last
We could share a bed
Mesmerized I emulate that
Pattern with your breath

Future

It takes a minute
To get over it
It takes a minute
Even to process it
It takes a minute
To realize
What just happened
It takes a minute
To know all will be okay
It takes a minute
To trust that there’s a way
It takes a minute
To fall asleep
For the next day

Lullaby

I need a lullaby
I’m doing this alone
Even with the ones that love me
Even with a telephone
I need a rocking chair
I’m doing this alone
What once felt like achievement
Becomes a lonely home
I need a lullaby
With soft melodies about
Traveling through the air
Fingertips run ‘bout my hairs
Could I be comforted by and by
With your hands upon my face
Wipe the tears which soon
Shall trace themselves along
My rose hot cheeks
I need a lullaby
A shoulder on to cry
Would you like to settle down
Beside the fire with me now
I’ve chopped some wood
My heart is good
And I’ll keep safe your
Darlin’ eyes
I need a lullaby be with me
By and by

Jupiter

Heaven rock me roll me
Fill my cup with love before me
May I beg for freedom from
The mayhem that is my life
Back to the shoulders of Jupiter
Glide we from the cruel asteroid’s
Hurling words and actions that
Surround the sounds ringing
Round the horizons of my mind
Each strike rings the bell that
Tolls the telling of an astral story
Stars and comets cry with joy
Give me Jupiter at home with
Rocks and sticks to build a grove
Thunderbolts clouds of smoke
Heliocentric heart beating apart
Spirit of the sky looking on into
What dawns upon us anew
Fondly loving nets of safe keeping
Beneath the twinkling lights hammock
I rest beneath you swinging wrapped
Within the tendrils of honoring
What wings of angels would then
Someday pair relationships to sing

Seeing Red

When the sun goes down
Is there order beneath the chaos
From the running in the streets
What knife will carve the life
Out from your neck when the
Song that is sung for our elders
Is slit from the air, ripped from
The arms and hands of the
Jewels that are our brothers
And also our sisters these are our
Grandmothers and Grandfathers
It can all be stripped away
Beyond our control, reamed
Stand up for yourself and fall
For the sake of someone else’s
Pride to be the Queen I won’t
Kneel down to lazy dreams