love – Page 8 – Poétique

Outfit

Finding myself
Wearing some ridiculous
Lampshade to subdue the light
I cannot easily disguise

I wonder
If a love like that exists

I’ve seen that man
You know the one
Crying outside your window

Shouting “Take me back!”
Drenched from the rain

Always wishing one day he’d
Be asking for you until the
Moment that he did

Dreading what could come
With him and would come
If you let him in

Where was the charming
Poetic boy
Full of fire and indifference

Outside dripping with life
A chance taken for feelings
Granted on the inside

A scratch

Both parts succumbing
Never contending
Correspondent to the rare
Combination

A poetic knight
Shining disarming
A gamut for life
Cooked up in a soup
Made of ginger and dreams
One that I have been sipping on

A quiet observation
Coming and going
Looking out the panes of glass
Heart throbbing

Grasping at a future
Full of memories
Written once and for all
In a newspaper that will
Again be delivered
On the morning
Of a second birth

Fresh and ready
For intimacy

Ice Cream

Ecstatic electricity
Humanitarian vibes helping
Seamless beaming something
Springing out of me

And in the closet we
Just keep stacking bibles
Not even the King James Version
In traditional black
But the easier to read
Version in schematic
Pastel color scenes

I keep thinking if we
Take the pages that we read
Turn them into some greater meaning
We will all feel better in the family

Some of the pages don’t agree
So we should turn them into
Ice cream and the letters
Make perfect imagery
Dripping throughout
Balled up into something
More acceptably happy

Just collecting those books
And putting more in the closet
Doesn’t really seem to do
This family any good
It’s the thing that appears
To be stopping us from
Understanding and loving
Each other in the way that
Ice cream could

Mermo

It is true that I
Will miss taking care of you
I’m digging deep within
The far reaches of my insides
To find the strength that I once was
With you here a shared anchor
To give you the courage
And the confidence that you need
To break through the film
The firmament and myofascial
Ascension into the wonder
With a belly full of bravery
Pushing through soaring
You cross into the wild unknown
That is your home before this home
Receiving you back a gift
So graciously given for us
To care for on the green and blue
Now back into the ether
You are embraced
You have yourself
To hold onto
And as you are with me
I am with you

Fly my guy

Spine

Disputation
What makes anything less amazing
Than it already is
What is the sense of urgency that
Rushes through every cell in the body
In justification to make us feel
Like something wild will be missed
Even seven years of security
Cannot cure this
What is the end of the world
Crawling up the back
Tingling into every vertebrae
As the spine cracks and pops
Like fireworks mixed with dynamite
Emotions explode inside
As if the greatest
Thing in life will be missed
Every time
Why is the end of eternity
Upon us?
Are we eternally plagued
By the intensity
Of missing the greatest thing
That never happens to us?

Plantureux

Zatfig heart
When one has nothing
Left to lose
A fat heart is inaccessible
To useless fear
Earthing full of the
Gods and Goddesses of love

Broken lock on the front door
Animals disturbed
You awake from your slumber
To find out you are
Intruded upon by
Someone with no boundaries
You wake them up
Drunk on the floor

You comfort them
Because you are empathique
You rest on the couch for a
Bit more
Falling asleep you realize
You don’t know this person anymore

Wake up!
Wake up!

Who are you?
No response

This is another version of them
You never met before
And now it’s time to
Lay down the law

To protect your privacy
To protect your cats
To protect the dogs
And later there will be
A trip to the hardware store
To fix the door they broke

There is enough love
On the earth for all of us
Maybe it’s someone else’s turn
To step up and love that one

You say no
Like it’s a full sentence
They leave
You become whole
Nature is your throne

Space is precious
So is your heart
Love with it
And protect it

Duality is sacred

Against

I kissed my opportunity with her
Grabbed her by the waste
And embraced her
I did that right but I didn’t know how to
Follow up to know and trust
That she felt the same
I blushed
I should’ve been stronger
I wasn’t strong enough…

I wasn’t strong enough to hold her
I couldn’t even stand up to
Stop the emotions that
Wanted to kidnap
Our only moment
No star is strong enough
To wish upon

Sanity is worth everything
I’m more awakened
By the absence
Of ignorance

Knit the sweater
Hook the blanket
Weave the security
Into your own fibers
What does it mean
To do it for yourself

Face against the asphalt
No other way to turn
No more tequila
Just the whole self
Completing the sound

Safe

Everything is temporary
Just because you’re pretty
Don’t mean nothin’
They’ll take your freedom
Snatch your security
Throw you to the wolves

Red house true dreams
Minuscule problems
Everything melts away
In ribbons of protection
Tied around the space
Just to remind you
That you are safe and sound
In a place where you
Never knew if you were before

No looking over your back
Self expression is allowed

You can rest your head here
In my lap and know that
No one can hurt you now
No one can hurt you now
No one can hurt you now

My love is forever

Contending

They’re not here to help anybody
They’re here to help you make their numbers
They don’t care about your feelings
I am ultimately non-secular so
It is difficult to touch the abstract numb
The narcissistic unfeelingness
Of the earth people around me

Hanging new life on the walls
To inspire others planting roses
In the garden cleaning up the shop
I find others rearranging my efforts
Not in a way to make it beautiful
In a way to make it theirs

What if this then pushes the great escape
To fall into a well of mollies and
Swim away where I one day soon
Arise to see my face aimed at the mirror
And not recognize my eyes or my smile

Meeting new beings I often
Double check my eye contact
With myself to see if the human in there
Is ready to be observed by the world

Without a false sense of security
Without nuisance

Hugging someone else’s dog
Sitting on someone else’s couch
Planting flowers on someone else’s property
A ricoche effect that leaves an uneasy
Lack of security wavering in the
Cold or hot winds that pass by
Comforting children that don’t belong to me
Am I the renegade of unowned property
Caring for the world that does not belong to me
Just nurturing life around me
As the excitement with the reception
Of my feelings and nature catapult

Good will is often like a head on a stick
Though it sounds gruesome
To an empathic person the gore
Is in the details of explanations
On how a sensitive soul
That wants to live and be loved
Feels rejected by its surroundings
They need to check in with

Roses love you unconditionally
Plants love you unconditionally
Dogs love you unconditionally
Emotions leave earthlings feeling
Uncomfortable and for that

How do you tell people to stop running
Without knocking them down!?

I understand it is easier to be
Unfeeling apathetic and indifferent
Perhaps even hateful

I only have love to give
The leftovers of a human heart
Laid plainly on the table

Forlorn

I didn’t know how to
Receive her love at the time
Because it wasn’t the love that I
Wanted

She didn’t know how to love me
Even my mother said
“He’s impossible to comfort.”

It’s too bad she came at a time
When I wasn’t prepared
I didn’t have everything in place
The way I do now

I can see hearts everywhere
In traffic lights and taillights
They’re all blurry because
My dog just died

I’m thinking of his love
Unconditional

That’s how it goes
When you truly love something

I’m doing everything just right
Waiting for the knife

A sacrifice for waking up
And organizing life

I reach up into the sky
And kiss your lion nose

You loved me
All the way

Hibiscus

They resent you for surviving
Wish that you would fail
Hate that you love life
Despise that you avail

They resent that you are happy
Their misery wants you to fall
They only love you when you’re crawling
When your back’s against a wall

I could have been your opportunity
Nothing can make you feel any different
When you feel the way you do
Fake money fake car fake feelings
Just to be how you are
Sometimes you fake it

How raw

I can’t feel myself
I can’t feel myself
I can’t feel myself

You were so unafraid
When people acted this way
I need a balcony
My turn signals are broken
Pull me over
Drag me out

Into the street
Into the street
Into the street

I need a Bollywood dance
A medical cream
A high stakes bet
That my life is worth living

Why did she resent me
You loved me unconditionally
Why does she highlight my dark spots
You licked my wounds

Some people actually thrive
When we’re down

Paddle out