Embrasé

Capitulating under a sun of
Darkness in utter blithe
Yellow couch to work it out
Dreaming of a cigarette
To make it all go away
My version of crazy
Too many songs
Sung by Amy
Over and over
As a big glass of
Winehouse should be shared
A little therapy and
Chocolates with liqueur
What better way to
Come down off the mountain
Sometimes they’re
Too smart for their own good
I could say at the very least
My awareness is
Overshadowing
A childhood
I’m still trying to understand
And so are they
An undertaking
A catastrophe
In the making
With a pale orange glow
Waiting at the end of a flame
Behind the door that
Has all the answers and
Evidence of ghosts

© GÄ

Bed

Blanket wrapped around
Hair falling down
Difficult to make eye contact
Through his strands
Walk the streets alone
Her silence is like forever
All the money that can be made
But nothing here for them barely a chip
To be found cold hands cling to the
Gates of iron bars fenced in
On the outside there is a prison
Although they are free
No escape and no house for you
What is humanity
But two houses for other people
And one house no one lives in
The gap is wide and how we
Upload our future as we all
Tap away at our computers
And our phones oh my
How sad still so many have no
Pillows to rest their heads
Empty buildings where no one sleeps
How do we exist on this planet
With all of it unconsciously
How do we do it absently if not
Crying ourselves to dream of
Another time another place holding on
Hanging into the abyss still swirling down
Down down we twist into nothingness
Grappling onto another moment in time
Worth rise to offer another bed
Another hammock for another head
Another roof over another place for
Someone to rest in a world that takes
Not even enough earth to have a place for
Dirt floors or just a bed for everyone
What is a trundle worth if not one for all of us

© GÄ

Étoiles

Discord in a tasty pear
Compersion to beware
Seething liberty in a
Pallid hope spilled eternally
I’ve climbed a hundred steps
To find the sky
Welcoming me
In a bed of stars
What ecstasy is night
And what of tomorrow!

© GÄ

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

© GÄ