love – Page 2 – Poétique

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

Intimité

Intimacy may you
Consummate in me
A powerful union of
Unmistakable love
Irreplaceable
Self impeding
What is the reason
Orange peel
Crushed dreams
Simpler times
Erotic screams
Moaning for more
Love before the end
Feelings of a head
Explosion easier
To relieve the notion
Just forget get back to
It the way life goes
Fake a nap wake up
See where you stand
How you feel
Beautiful hands
Waiting to hold the
One who could it be
Perfect day
Dark clouds
Spiraling in ecstasy
Nothing left
No more
Roses, gardens, tea
Music in the ministry
Stand on top
Of what you believe
Be sad be bold
Outspoken behold
Magnetic poles
Beauty disclosed
What’s the remora
A state of being familiar
In our amorous minds
Driving fast towards
An inward communion
Don’t push it away
The gift of intimacy
Traversely fleeting
Receive it completely

Tinge

Sad to think that
You might wonder or
Believe that I don’t care
Tears even
About the words and
Sentences you taught me
I want so badly as you know
To be fluent and to flow
With effortless expression
But I need you close in
Every tomorrow to speak
To say to correct me

Sad to think that
You might believe that I am
Giving up
As though I’ve filled my cup
Heart trembling
And I want it so bad I can’t
Put into words how impossible
It feels to achieve what it means
To speak the language that is
Living in my heart but it
Comes off as if I don’t
Mean or want to
Understand it

I just don’t want to
Do it alone and you can’t
Be here all the time
And then you’re gone
Then here I am
Talking to myself again
Having conversations
With the wall
But to speak the words
That are meaningful
That’s not how I ever meant
To do it all

Je veux échanger
Chaque jour avec toi…

Rejure

Immutable love
Unchanging divine
Giving you the chance to
Uncover my mystery
Fired up I fully
Whole heartedly believe
In love

It’s four o’clock
Everyday reaches this point
Like the strength of redwoods
Your heart and demeanor
Again a safety net beneath the
Burj Khalifa

Anchoring my dopamine
Just a classical conditioning
Of doves diving in my mind
Singing songs of praise
Cooing above

I walk backwards on the beach
Remembering our future
My brain desires
Theeb dreamscapes

Hidebound

She wanted to listen to
Old tapes about her past
That made her sad
Her identity was iron clad
Impenetrable

As you hold her heart
From the backside
Console her with true love
She cries for both of you

The third other sits on a couch
Buried in disgust pain and doubt
She doesn’t care if you stay
She wants you out

I don’t care if you go
She meant it
You felt it

There are many among you
That represent fun
But you’re not the one
Ghostlighting you
With party favors
That are people

The butterfly is emerging
Snake skin is shedding
Who’s flags are red
If we’re betting
Yours or mine?

Flashing lights
Confined to the past
No one can love for us

Each Other

It was both of their faults
Not fighting hard enough
For the love that they deserved

It’s not all drudgery is it?
Of course the beauty hangs
In the distance

Maintaining the narrative
As it was in the beginning
Some kind of ice cream social
Sitting at the same table
A neighborhood of love

When do we return to
One another after all
Is said and done

The crowds have
All gone home

Left with each other
Trusting and loving
As lovers do

Not some sort of
Invidious manifold

Joy in the making
A dry corner for standing in
Mystical narratives

Grains

White flowers dusted
Far across the plains
Rolling grains violining
Where somehow the music
In the air sounds different than
Yesterdays birds

Less work more play casting
An umbrageous shadow
Knock if you will at the vortex
Of this epiphany of spider bites
Hard centered lust at the
Indefinite core of willingness
Never undermined by
Squandered love
A hot centered devotion

One less headache
Hard pinned to the grass
Remember the park tangled
Underneath a tree it’s really
Simple the breeze and esoteric
Conversation that pulls us both
In magnetically with no doubt
Words and questions your
Scent is one that I can sense
From yards away unmistakable
Thirst quenching beauty