life – Page 2 – Poétique

Bullets

Orange guns gold teeth
Chase me down stand up to see
Me push you out of my house
Side door no fear
Running up from the bottom
Of the stairs threat or no threat
I have a family to protect
Get out!

Where do you think you are?
Not much time here now
Have to think on our feet
Even if the gun goes off
Keep moving forward
He’s shooting but I don’t care
No matter how many are
Standing there

End of the world is near
Cliff diving no gear here I come
Positioning of the sun is extreme
Contemporaneously audible
Ringing in my ears

Forge a different path
Tell a different story
One that’s nothing like
The one we’re living
With much more pleasure!

Labile

Easily altered his mind was
Tinkered with over time and
In the end he couldn’t remember
What really happened and
What didn’t ineffectual

Just to be loved and cared for
Turned into what can you
Give me do for me work for me

Nobody told me that what
You experienced was war the
Opposite of love

Meant for Hollywood
Born in the woods
Not much to write home about
Talented kid

Where did the rest of it go
All the good for nothing but stone

We had friendship
Somehow forgotten
We hand kinship
All of that vanquished
By the darkness

That couldn’t love what
That couldn’t accept
That wanted the worst
For the rest of us

And he woke up smiling
Remembering a different time
Washed over by forgiveness
In a way that no one needed to
Discover remission
Uncover compassion
Disasters of a plague

Family can do that
That’s why we make friends

Barreling

Stop the dog from attacking
Save the innocent ones
Don’t hesitate for
Hesitation could
Mean death

Is there something
To be afraid of knowing?
Abandon the hermit
Behind the time to be
Outgoing to take me
As I am

What happens next?

There is no observation
Negative or positive
That can be imagined
Without validation
From the voice
Of the seer

Stop the dog from attacking
Save the innocent ones
Unpredictable energy
Feelings of off centered
Realities

No feeling like it’s not
Uncertain certainty
A blanket of truth

Our youth
Maroon and rose blush
Eternity is reflected
In the palm of
Our souls

Barreling through
Stop the dog from attacking
Save the innocent ones

Logging

Interminable existence
Chariot of falls

We don’t need a ring
We don’t need marriage
All the friendship that we have
Covers it volubly

I’m going back to bed
She said
That’s how you knew
Tomorrow could also
Be a better day
Sleep it off
Try again in an hour
Try again in three hours
Try again tomorrow

I’m going to paint it
A little more darkly than it is
Because that’s how it feels

It’s not always so dark
But the clock keeps ticking

Why both sides can’t be happy
Sugar and water calming the
Sea of the heart

Leave a dime on the floor
Say goodbye before you go
Pick it up to catch the call
If you can reach it
Just before the world
Takes off

Witchcraft

What’s the difference between
Dark green and light green
Why does every moment
Feel like we’re running out of time?
The sense of urgency is reeling
I lost the hold I didn’t know I had

Would someone eviscerate me
Please let’s be compendious
About the order of things

A long drawn out conversation
Arriving at the conclusion
Of a lot of things I never said
And that you never knew
That the decisions I made
We’re influenced by her
How uncouth

They were mine to make after all
But I never thought it would be
Rather, I would be, left with neither
One of you although you did it
Before wayfaring

This time I played along
Got caught in the game
Trying to save myself
And lost again

Too many dynamics
Too much sexual confusion
An ego intrusion

Maybe I should be proud
But it still takes awhile
To move on and move out
From years of being in
A friendship turned
Relationship turned
Nothingship

I feel like I was tricked

Beleaguered

Don’t be chary to step forward
Why are we cowering
When we don’t have to be
Hiding in the shadows
People can feel your spirit
When it’s dimming
Just as they can feel it
When it’s shining
Around you

If you never had the desire
To be something amazing
Burning inside of you
It may have been easier
To accept a mediocre light

But if you’re burning
Deep and bright inside
And you can feel the flames
Licking at your insides
For whatever is the next
Astronomical moment
In your lifetime
Then the tears are real
And the journey is strong
And may be long gone
Before you have the chance
To look back and know
What you did
See what you’ve done

Past the doldrums
Of doing everything perfect
Making everything right
In your slice of paradise
Room for error room for dust
Room for make up sex
And arguments

But mostly space for
Newness and second chapters
Letting go of past relationships that
Have run their course and
Making room for new ones
Along the way
Others in time
Come what may

Vibrations and drums
Keep moving
Don’t stop don’t give up
Find the next story in your life
Open the book turn the page
That will give you everything
You know that you’ve got
To experience
Give it several shots

Why are we cowering
When we don’t have to be
Hiding in the shadows
Beleaguered by our thoughts
Stand up strong staff in hand
Conduct the weather
Future endeavor
Hurricanes of persistence

Find your strength
And tap in
Passionate footsteps
Stronger together
Everywhere eyes wide open
Heart pouring out
Life is too short
Don’t do without

Innocente

There is no such thing
As a relationship where
No one gets hurt

I can barely hold my eyes
Open long enough to see
The future of what it can be

Inside my head
Inside my head
It’s almost dead
It’s almost dead

Ocean views and
Covered in foam
A moment before
Nothing left to lose
Connect me

If we have to wake up
Do we have to be there?
Can we zombie it out

Someone else split the difference
Someone else do it for me

My heart breaks to see
The sweetest child share pure joy
About the little things
Resonates the dark parts
Of my world that I don’t
Feel seen or heard in

Turn the lights down
Remember innocent laughter

Time will heal it
Time will heal it

Invented

Factoid of life brings
A dream of clouds and cream
Beings in dance and probable
Light that may or may not
Come to fruition

Three dogs I’ve never met before
Maybe my dogs told them about me
On the other side grieving
What beautiful love to share
Unconditionally
Who is the ghost I met
In the ether last night

Bright eyes and long arms
The fantasy if not knowing
Just a neverland of maybes
Brilliant sky dark stars
Outer space positive
Planetary atmosphere

A backdrop for the unpredictable
Minutes ahead that turn into
Lifetimes and I see myself in
Death and rebirth

But the end is not near
What a rescue

Γρουσουζιά

Risk taking is also
Lavender dreams of being
Ivory streams of temptation
Pull the car over to say hello
To a random stranger

Doff the expectation
Of folding towels a certain way
Showing up for life everyday
In certain kinds where
Uncertainty belies

Lavender and gold
Love you with action

Like skipping rocks
Banana peels
Hopping one from the other
Tiptoeing around not to
Turn over any stability
Keep it same keep it solid
Remaining sumptuous
How can we breathe?

In out in out in out
Music in my head goes
In out in out in out
I need a water spout
Connected to my house
Which is my body

Like a rubber band that snaps
It is the complex thread of life

I will forgo all assumptions
That to be alive is any wayward
Thing or moment in any language

I am betrothed to that which
Comes in frequencies and feathers

Here the water pools in casual ways
Here the thunder claps on its own

We show up when we fox what we can
If even then we have to certainly
But not with tension in our hearts
Rocks crumbled in our brains

Here we show up as we want to
Everyday as we can

This is life the combat
We must fight not just to survive
But to be alive to play

Lanterne

I wanted to do everything with you
But in the end I had to do it myself

Let’s stop being disappointed
Leaving me like this in the wind
I wanted to do it myself
But it was hard to
Do it without you

How could I
He really wanted it
It was already completely gone
I wanted to do everything with you

Firestorm
Firestorm

We had a great time trying
Grinding materials
Withered leaves
Repeated garden
Disappointing love life
Sprinkle salt around the edges
Almost consistent
Reason for no reason
Swallows are dancing

After midnight
I wanted to do everything with you
I will accept what we had
Next step
To do everything

With someone else