love – Page 2 – Poétique

Drum

Falling in love with
The outsides of people
Realizing you’re molding
The insides and then
Maybe not forever on earth
Maybe just for a shaping
In a short time
Until they move on from you
Why fall in love with
People that cannot
Fall in love with you?
Romance is precious
Intimacy the thing we
All wonder if truly
Exists we ask ourselves
If it’s real and we see others
Who seem to be
Experiencing what we
Aren’t sure how to
Find digging a hole
In the backyard or
Scratching through the
Concrete on the sidewalk
Just to get down
To the crust of the earth
Maybe the heart of things
Drum the drum
Make the sound that
Beats for some that
Know the calling of
True love for this
Is that time
Woody cracks
Sacred snaps
Pdum pdum
Ratatat bom
Bom bom
My heart calls
From the core
Of the earth
To the ones
Who hear a same
Recalling of sweetness

Tenu

It sounds sad
But it’s not actually
Watering the world
Around us
Pouring anguish
Out of the heart
Eyes won’t stay open
Just to think about
Love in a completely
Different way
I am
Remembering what
I thought it was and
An absence of my
Heartbeat
Somewhere in between
Less skipping
More tripping
But the intensity
Is driving fiercely
Wake up
Wake up
Is anybody home
Knock knock
Knock knock
Phone home
I want you I need you
I love the deep
It’s all a fantasy
Unreal
What I had was
Exactly as
Beautiful as it was
And what we wanted
Was almost there
But also waiting
To hold you
Holding me
Holding us

Smalling

What part of your life
Isn’t intense
Do you correlate
Intensity with passion
Think of the wins
Don’t focus on the losses
He said driving
Down the road
Fighting his whole life
To have people like him
To befriend this
As if something were
Unacceptable?
Not so much approval
But to be loveable
And if someone didn’t
Return that perhaps
To share that affection
Somehow I failed in
Being loveable
Will there be sound
After we die?
Are we holding
Ourselves back?
We love the outside
But the inside cannot
Love us the way
We think it will be
Reimagining

Ikke!

Tempestuous predicament
Preposterous considering
Breathe in breathe out is
Just the normal thing
Busy living our lives
Keeping up sliding in
All things trying
To find a system
That goes

You know I form these
Deeper connections
With people all the time
Why give that up?
What was the point
Of building the stadium
An arena for love
Watching it escalate
Just to tear it down
Or pretend it’s medical

It wasn’t necessary

How long will it take
To get past it
When the first guess
Was right and you
Went for the second
It was wrong!!
Let it go, there will be
Another chance

Another day

Love is a very reckless thing
What is important and
What is tragic?
Questioning

Would being blind
Make it any easier?

I’m sorry I’m late

Mollify

Why is my grief
So important
I am only one person
There is no value
For that when it
Comes to the grief
Of a nation
Or the grief of a mother
My energy is strong
Screaming out louder
Needing to be heard
Like a crying cat
Insides twisting but
Why should my voice be
Louder than any other
An omen for tomorrow
Digital blue mollify you
Bitter comfort wrapped
In hues of light that
Leave us all renewed
Less subdued and hoping to
Recall the love in
Your eyes one last time

Outline

Turn to face me in bed
Watching my fingers
Glide over your head
Hands in your hair
Kiss at your brow
Wishing never to get up
Just to lay here
Breathe your breath
Nothing left but
Our heart beats
Hovering above us
In the air
Like two kids in love
Not a care to be told
Only to hold
Not afraid of myself
Or loving you too much
Protecting each other
Romantic distinction
Take this time to
Be here to feel special
To love you and
Undress you
How many years
Has it been
How many years
Have we left?
In between the sheets
After we meet
Turn to face me in bed
Watching my fingers
Glide over you sweetly

Gauge

Settling into myself
Such a strange sensation
To be genuinely happy
Not over concerned
Enjoy the moment
Oh of what we’ve created
Lived up to and
What we’ve done!
When do we realize
And step back
Take a deep breath
And enjoy everything
That we are?
Will life surpass us
Before it’s too late?
Fall out of the tree
Of expectations everyone
Has been growing
For you with
Conference calls and
Calendars just a
Basic phone call
Where our personalities
Intertwined and there
Is no evidence that
It ever took place
No record kept
Except for
You and me
No second guessing

Staircase

We step out
Beyond ourselves
To find forgiveness
In someone else
A different opinion
To be forgiven

I look to my heart
Tied to the universe
Married to the mother
And her children
The stars

Comfort my empty faith
How they cradle and bathe
My symphony of pain
How they give my whip rest
Arms of light about my chest

Forgive this human condition
Release your selfless victim
There is no worthy hostage
O, how the heart swells
With pure joy
When we free love

Causal

She was never
Going to apologize
For the pain she caused
Perhaps because she
Never thought she
Caused any

You can do amazing
Somehings and die
But can you do amazing
Somethings and stay alive?

We are all hoping in someone
To feel loved or appreciated
Cared by and for and there
Is no permanence to any of this
No credence for responsibility
Hold onto the memory
Of the possibility

To be thirty again still feeling
As if that was the beginning
And life wasn’t just about
Owning your own home
But loving and growing
Meeting someone new
Not trapped in the
Life that was supposed
To save you…

I leave notes on the doors
Of people’s phones by text
Hoping that they will
Respond but the world
Is too busy trying to
Keep up with itself

I am your biggest fan
Waiting for your comeback
If I begin to love you
Will you make me wait
Like everyone else
When I reach out to you?
Not everyone does

Keep turning right
The best position is
Just out of sight

Peel

I want to peel back the fence
That surrounds you
Clawing to split at the wood
From the cracks
Of all splinters and light
Scratching with all my might
Into surface the beauty
One remarkable moment
Defines

Posts of wood support me
Above the water I’ve tread
To find you, behind you
Every way
By the way
Do you mind if I stay?

Passing through you like a memory
I’ll wait at your door
I would lay on your floor

Just to be with the side
You rarely show to yourself
I want to peel back the fence
That surrounds you

You’re dragging the wind