Attenuated heart
Wounded from the exhaust
Bruised and bled sore
Healed by the garden
Two peas in a pod
Tending to the flowers
Mending the core
Pulsating new with desire
To feel better post red letter
Teaming vessels of light
Coursed through the veins
Off the pages in flight
From the soles of my feet
Climbs each vertebrae
Night rings up to skull
Lips round the bottle of life
Vilified and godlike
Innocent grasshoppers chime
Every pure drop drips
Indistinguishably right
© GÄ
People can be predictable
Unexpectedly so
Abandoning you for partners
Don’t say you’re sorry now
I already said it for you
Connections dwindle
Or maybe no one is at home
Always asleep when I call
Anytime of day
It doesn’t really matter
What makes it count afterwards
Fostering long term relationships
Short term friendships are
What folks seem to be
Most up to keeping safe
I am a creature of habit
I dreamt of making
Lifelong friendships
Indelible memories
Creatively measuring
My worth in the mirth of
A genuine reflection
Touching hearts one by one
Even yours from the start
Holding on making efforts
In the overall spectrum
Of architectureal hearts
I did the work the work is done
I came here for love
Not only for one but for some
Deeper love for all
Each of my friendships
No sex at all somehow
Deeper than sex can go
I came here for love you know…
© GÄ
Like walking through a bad dream
Looking for a partner or a good friend
In an underworld where only the self exists
Purloin my love
If you must pilfer my heart at all
Inalienable after all
With a history like hours
There’s no erasing
Beguilingly so
If there’s also nothing left
To give up on
I would not have kept trying to find you
In the weeds of time
With the sunlight
Woven over strands of your hair
In a window of possibilities
Or lack thereof
© GÄ
I saw my life flashing
Before me but not in
The way that I pictured
It would be
Somehow smarter
Than before and
A little louder than I
Ever recalled living it
But, it honestly didn’t matter
Once the end found its way
To the beginning of a dream
My smile was captivated
Fool poem of my love
Fool poet for my love
Obliterating me with
Your kissing matter
Your selfish warmth
Laid me down before the sun
On a blanket of
I don’t know what until
I suddenly remembered
I had to go to work
Not for you or for me
But for the sake of
Our unknown future
And so I quickly gathered
Myself and finished
Brewing the coffee
Closing the morning door
Behind me
© GÄ
You have to be stronger
Than the illness itself especially
If it’s yours but even more so
If it’s someone else’s
Beleaguered or not
You can’t make everybody
That surrounds you happy
But you can feel good about
Knowing you did all that you could
To extend a full heart
Genuine intent pure gold
And then the love goes on
All of the love that has been
Had for you still exists
That love goes on
Without those that love you
Whom you no longer have contact with
You will still have that love for them
And they for you memory energy
Whether you continue on
The same path or take different turns
That love will always exist
Purposefully maintaining its continuity
To always return to that love
Without any requirement to ever do so
As complex as love is
It is also simple
It is in our hearts
And in our own powers
To receive it or to let it be
© GÄ
Conjecture
Why doesn’t it feel like love
Not the same as making way
For someone whom you love
I’m stuck asking for
Too much and speaking of
Not enough love
Not much room left on this turf
Problematics 101
Maybe the job is done
Even for a best friend
It’s not the first time
I have felt this way
It’s not the first time
A friend has had to say
Goodbye
Able to be there
Why would I chase a friend
If they love you
They are there no matter what
You feel secure they recite that
If I ever felt that I was in your way
Taking up space
Rewrite that the dismay
Yes it’s unbelievable how
Someone can simply not know you
Understand you
See your blank space
Avoid you and your heart space
Even when you tell them
Everything
I have been fighting for
Your attention for twenty years
Of my life
I don’t have it in me
Anymore
The teeth of my life are falling out
I can feel myself deteriorating
I can feel my heart
Slowing down
I’ll get a few things
In order let the clock go ‘round
Guarding leftover happiness
Ugly things
That are bothering me
Move them
Out of the way
Before I truly know
How bad everything
Presumably is
Before it all spills out
Before it all falls apart
© GÄ
What people forget is
How we can love deeply
Without sex and in that love
Can be deeper than the
Love you have with someone
You have had sex with
Why is it so important
For you to know that depth
Like a soldier of fortune
Why does it matter to me
So much to have you
Know just how deeply
I can love a person
How much I love
What difference will it make
In my life if I believe you
Understand how deeply I love
It’s indescribable for me to
Know that someone knows
And I believe that you are
Actually capable of understanding
Likewise you may have
Some other
Knowledge or perspective
On this that
I do not
As a
Soldier with a mission for love
I’m grasping at the straws
Of my youth wanting to
Share it with you so you can live
Through the music loving it too
Wishing you could feel it
In the same way I do
Sharing deeply
In my utmost honesty I will probably
Never know if you actually comprehend
How much I love you
You say it’s not for me to know
But the truth is that
I can never know
If you have received the absolute
Depths of my love
With ability
In the way I intended
Inadvertently
I can only hope
That you do
© GÄ
Can you hear the song
The way that I hoped when I sent it
Can you feel my love
The way that I meant when I sent it
Can you understand me when
I look at you with silent eyes
Does the sun rise in your heart
When I send you all my sparks
Can you feel the heat in the ground
When I’m dancing with my feet
Thump thump pound pound lo lo
Love is the sound that we’re making
Love is the rhythm we’re creating
Isn’t the passion excruciating
Thump thump pound pound lo lo
Loves’ echoes shaking your body
Embracing you tightly
Morning and nightly
The sun’s shining brightly
Embracing you tightly
Morning and nightly
The sun’s shining brightly
Walking beside you keeping up
With your love if I’m high or I’m sober
Run with that feeling over and over
In my mind you’re in my mind
My body is your body can you feel
My sincerity trusting me
Waterfall all over you
© GÄ
A house of cards
Waiting to fall
Tempted to break
Deturpate
A vile place to
Care for humanities
And our rights
By overshooting
Toreador
To the soufflé
A dirty kitchen
All my eggs in one basket
I insisted on biscuits
Peanut butter and jelly
When will the truth
Finally come out
We all bleed the same
Can we love from over there
Do we have to hurt
Devastate one another
Just to hold one another again
Maybe imperfectly so
© GÄ
Friendship
Acquaintances
Friendly distances
Social Media retains
Networking disdains
Casual friends
Hang out refrains
Shared interests
Light hearted conversation
Low pressure no pressure
Close friends
Emotional support
Trust sends
Consolation like a letter
Inside jokes or better
Quality time undefined
Advice in time
Love sublime
Accountability is renowned
Lifelong friends are
Steadfast and recounted
Shared experiences
Belonging and undoubted
Close like family
Timeless tree
Where you left off
Lifelong memories begin
Showing up for each other
In the ebbs and flows
As we grow up and it echos
Through our life paths
© GÄ
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