love – Page 3 – Poétique

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

Orange Moon

Am I deranged in my love for you!
Orange moon make me not
A prisoner to your glowing
All for the answers to bow
Down on bended knees I need less
Little of nothing but only
Tenderness

Leave me not with the
Rotting ghosts on the floor
Reminiscent of past life love
If we break the ice might we
Also be found drowning
Together

Keep on lying to me
Before I change my name
Handle me with noble gestures
Give me both of your hands
Warm sun at my back
Early morning could be
Left with nothing warmer
Than the touch of your heart
Abandon me parched

Situating your softness
At the tips of my fingers
A smile and sweet eloquence
Find my voice and pick it up
Off the floor

Liable

Miracle of flowers
How does it happen
A race to get to the sun
Up from the soil
Unbelievable

To be hungry for kisses
Like the magic of this
Mystery on your lips
What we become
Afterwards

Soak me up in the best way
I couldn’t bear to say
Goodbye later

Fall asleep in your arms
Fool to wander around
Rolling in the bed with
Your charms a simple plea
To wake up this way

I am liable to hold on
For dear life I wonder
If you would savor me
In the same way
Worth the risk to
Find out

All the chips out
Cards on the table
Whatever becomes later
Is happening now

Fugitive

I introduced her to all my friends
She stayed for them but not for me
In the end she was only
Someone to steal my heart
Stolen once before but many times
Ripped from my core there are
Many more moments that this
Could be stolen again and again
For fun because I know the game

All the same in love and war I
Couldn’t turn it off really
Bake you a chocolate cake
Maybe that was my first mistake
Forgetting and remembering
Everyday is a reminder of the
Bandit she would turn out to be
Even if only friendship and
A kiss was exchanged
I hang that picture on the wall

What a lucky time, time to record
In the stones beneath our feet
Not feeling like I’m anything special
But somehow engaging a cigarette
Allowances were made and the
History is archived for us to
Always remember in whatever
Capacity our brains and our
Hearts are empowered

Still a thief is a thief
A heart is a heart
Like a blindfolded burglar
Stolen friends stolen love
The end is devoured
In our inabilities to
Remain

Mmmmm

She was tough as nails
He was sensitive like silk
Looking for a reason to love again
Find his voice and the power
To sing searching for the words

Living with uncomfortable moments
A solution to closure as none of them
Work well for living with the feelings
Stewing and gestating contemplating
Asking for an escort to usher these
Thoughts out さようなら(sayōnara)
Au revoir c-ya later alligator!
Take a break from the constant
Making it mean something

What’s my algorithm got to offer
Would you accept my hand
Take a nap with me
Or just lay here all day
Tangled up in a lot of
Nothingness

I hear the neighbors shouting
It reminds me of the peace
I currently have the privilege of
But sad eyes wonder why
Is it impossible to wait
Possessed by repeating
A similar self offense
Like pouring the same
Cereal out every morning
Into a bowl that I don’t
Really like or even
Want to eat

How many times to keep
Ourselves from doing it again?
Mmmmm

Anodyne

He laid down to hold her
Like mourning a ghost
You could hear the walls howl
And her wife begged him to
Understand that she meant well
But his heart was broken and
Was screaming in his dreams
Or was it just the sound
Of a past that they all
Promised to love one another
But no matter how hard he
Tried to love her it would
Always be on her terms and he
Was keeping his pledge to do so
Making it difficult to feel loved
In return conditionally she had
Reservations and conversations with
Her mother and her lover
Her wife and every other
He always wanted to be
As important as they but never
A replacement just to
Matter as much but
There was nothing
To kill the pain just
Mourning the apparition
As he spooned her on the floor
Of their past a memorial
To friendship and love
And how he had indeed
Honestly lost her