Wide Open

There’s so many things
That I could be
But with you I am
The only thing
I want to be
Because I am with you

The hurt and pain
The past and drought
Of all the emptiness
That I’ve allowed
To keep me
From falling in love
Forgets itself
When I’m with you

Love is great and beautiful
But this means more
Than even what
Love has in store

The feelings that
Your eyes arouse within me
To make the sweetest sounds
In the echo of your voice
Saying…

Whatever makes this real
Is everything I need
You love me unlike
Any love I’ve ever seen
I want to run
From a heart that feels
Unmistakably broken
But you hold me down
And force the doors of love
Wide open

© GÄ

Beyond the Bedroom

Abundantly beautiful
A force of timeless desire
Overcoming
Unlike the old paint on the walls
That just sits there
And looks back at us
Whether we’re watching or not
We remark on each other
In everything that we do
Away from one another
The greatest debt would be
To miss the opportunity
Not to tell me
Not to tell you
How I love you
Beyond the bedroom
A kind committed virtue
That compliments the things we do
In the garden
In the home
In the whites of your eyes
I see all the ways
That we can live with each other
Intimately beyond the bedroom
Outside of chambers
Letters from the keys
Of my mind
To the mailbox of your heart
Sweating through our shirts
In passion or in work
My lips are joyous for yours
Even when we’re not
Wrapped up in sheets
My heart beats and
My chest blooms deeply for you
Far beyond the bedroom

© GÄ

Don’t Look Back

Anything
If this could be a
Love like us
Just a drop as
Sensory sounds repeat
Rattling our bones
We could
Lie about where we’re going
To everyone
Written on the back of
Abandoned sheet music
A wild goose chase
An ignorant map
Laments for the stuff
We have yet to do
That’s between us
Brightest lights
On the broken bridge
Hung loosely
Count them with me
Shattered ground
Beneath our feet
Let’s just take it slow
Flashlights to find our way
At the end of the line
Heads will roll
If we take it too seriously
Find your heart
Underneath the blanket
I wonder
Where are you now
My dreams are inquiring
Seaside birds calling all
Demons to the bottom of the ocean
Burned by love
Signary archaic messages
Ready for us to decipher
Let it go like the sand
Releasing the symbols we carved
Into the beach yesterday
Waking up underneath you
Like a gift to the waves
After too much
Pomegranate sugar
It’s easy to
Imagine someone like you
With me forever
Don’t look back

© GÄ

Unexpected Ways

So then
Just as you received
My telegram to meet me
At the motel
I found myself overflowing
At the mere thought
Of our reception
Enduring love is
One of those things
Like calling out your name
In the middle of a field
Sometime after midnight
Hidden in the grass
Regarded twice as tall as me
Not quite as tall
As how I felt when I saw your lips
Mouth the words

‘I think I love you’

Like nightly dreams
Painted on plaster
Across the ceiling
Like morning light
Creeping across
Your body one ray at a time
You can always counsel me
On the way that I should reach out
To get closer to you
To understand your maze
To walk your labyrinth
In any way you most prefer
There’s a fire waiting for us
In the living room
There’s a fire waiting for us
In my heart
There’s a fire waiting for us
In every corner of the world
Your love bursts through me
In countless unexpected ways

© GÄ

Climb

A star shall arise
Up out of me
As a cub shall rise
Up from her mother
In sands of dune
To follow and to guide
For which to seek out
And to find you
As dark as the sun
As bright as the moon
If Egypt should lay down
The first horizon
The stones of pyramids
Made square and not
Bruised round
Extant ashes
As the soil breathes
Acacias like savory records
Eaten whole at the ends of mouths
Licked up by gold giraffes
Watch this thing
Inside my heart
As honey drips
From wings of bees
As did the mouths of those
In cribs of ancient Greek philosophy
And as then Ra should cry
The tears of years gone by
Watch as the pinkless night
Turns into twinkling sky
And wipe the lipstick off
Before the morning light
Centuries of lust catapulted
On the back of pale blue Sphinx
Through the grains and
Scarab shells of endless time
Regard me as I walk the line
The span of every distance
It would take for me to find
Yes just to find you
I would climb
To the other end of
Every manifested vine
I would climb
Yes I would climb
And climb and climb
To get to you

© GÄ

At Your Fingertips

I have a friend
A very best friend
Who had to make some room for me
She loves my crazy
As she said she would
How much more room is there do you think
Do you love me from a distance
At arms length
Pure love is succinct
What is this sacrifice
In thee that you should give
Your heart for me or to make room
Or how much space would
I be taking if you have
Room enough still in your heart
Of that to give left there for me
Would there be any emptiness
If I was absent from this green
If I was absent then from thee
If you do not believe
In this my spiritual being
Would you then reach out dear to me
Would you know that
Even in my absence
Or as a phantom in your mist
That you would always have me
At your fingertips

© GÄ

Of You

What if I could be your mystic
Falling into ecstasy
Only a tiny atom but also
A giant in your heart would be
Like a drop in the bucket
A romantic sacred fossil
Contemplating the scent
Of baked cinnamon in the air
Drifting from the kitchen
An ancient heir
As you are
Loitering about my everything
Though my heart is racing
There is no running from you
Members of one body
You and I to fantasize
Imaginations artifacts
A lack of loneliness
Spills out onto the floor
Before us both
Flames of unborn love
Restituted in our shrine
What even would we taste like
If both of us were wine
Fifty percent you
Fifty percent me
Half and half
Of ecstasy
What is it like
To be the other part
Of you

© GÄ

Dreams Between

For you because
And with all knowledge
I find you
Full of intensity
Roaring hot like the sun
Nightmares crash
On lions backs
Rocking in the
Shadows of sharp claws
Hardly is the passion lost
Missing between the reeds
In dreams with you
Of all romantic deeds
For which you unwrestle
Watch one spark leap
Twist up and turn
From which you smile
To receive a beating heart
Pounding from me
Suspended discreetly
In the cosmic air
Between us

© GÄ

Aureole

Resting in a dark chamber
Run round like a circle
In surrounded brightness
I find you at the center
Of an aureole
I went running
Out into the forest
Naked with disbelief
Jumped into the water
That wraps around the property
Only to find myself
Soaking cold and shivering
But satisfied with the delight
Of my arousal of you
At you only you my secret
To hold my secret to tell
A secret I want to know
Better than I already do
If only I am just a little less shy
A little less trembling
A little more forward
Like running over broken glass
I should only find the hootspa
Maybe if the meadow was
A little less gold that day
Perhaps if the sky was
A little less blue
I shall not be vacant
Hoist by my own petard
Like a dancing knife
Between your fingers
Afraid to kiss
But not afraid to cut
Staring at you
Without watching the blade
That was the light
That lit up the field that day
Chasing after the shadow
Of an almost moment
That still might happen
Resting in a dark chamber
At the center of your aureole

© GÄ