Intra

How much do we have to be
Accountable to accept the effects
Sounds and accusations walking the
Ground creeping around and into us
Does it have to be absorbed
Or taken seriously as this is
My only mind my only heart my only head
Just to meet someone who
Is genuinely excited to be loved
To be in love with or accepted by
So sincerely wanting to be wanted
But not because we need to interrupt
Or force ourselves to be as the heavens grow
Darker and the night closes in the garden
I can picture many chances to stay
In one place without changing though
The world is shifting around us
In circles of transition the bamboo is spreading
Constantly a new generation a new
Explanation of seeds a second disturbance
Minding your own business is non-existent
But we hold still stationary and
Keep true to the principles of
Life that are suited for the era we
Are encountering today embracing
A distinguishable time to the solitary moments
A union of self and a tribute to being
Brilliant auspicious and flourishing
Without wavering to the arrows being
Fired the space to walk in unblinking
Between is as big as Sherwood Forest
And many trees to glean in sorted hours
As the sun crawls into the shadows a traveling
Sky promises hope in propitious colors

© GÄ

Nightsong

Take my picture
Ask me questions
This is not a jeremiad
Lamentation of distress
A signal to revitalize
My emptiness
More like a soul song
Voices barreling up
From the south
Trains blaring
In the background
Porch swings and
Warm breeze
My peripherals working
Overtime eyes darting
Left and right 91 degrees
You could get away with alot
Before technology took over
Enough gas in the tank
And plenty of hours to
Think about the next best thing
Or something like sharing
A never ending stream
Of days and nights
Together just for fun
Records and ice cream
Simple things to make
Annoying springs disappear
I don’t know why but
The best time I could
Ever imagine is
Laying in the grass with you
On a hot summer night

© GÄ

Night Steps

Kissing water
Onto the citadel
Out splashing
The fish
New glistening
On wet lips
Answers come
In tidal waves
Never quite empty
Always quite full

Will you take a drink
From this waterfall
Are you thirsty
Enough to quench
Is there something less arid
Do the currents abed
Is this our moment
Next to black
Granules

If you were sand
My head would dip lovingly
Into your dune

If you were outer space
My heart would hang brightly
Over your moon

If you were ocean
My hands would hold lightly
Buckets of you

If you were a cyclone
My blood would run hotly
With airwaves in tune
Over your radio
Singing la la la la la
Humming da da da da
Wind chimes

Was that a miracle
On the hill?
Will you bring roses
To my dreams?
Possibly wrap your arms
Around my screams?

But really

I don’t actually want to scream
I’m handing you my bones
A sacred skeleton key
I just want to know you
Will you
Come climb the
Satin blue ivy
Walk the night steps
Crawling up the mosslike green
Into a bed
Where you can
Rest here next to me?

© GÄ

Beneath the Night

Given the choice
I miss you like the dream
I never had
Between alone time
And socializing
I miss touching
I miss holding
You
In between time
I will almost always
Surround myself with
You
In fact
I miss you and my need
To be around you
Is so strong
It sometimes gets
In the way of
Everything
My responsibilities
Included
I prefer to play
Rather than work
I’m not responding
Well to orders
Unless they come from
You
Trace my borders
I want to bond
With you over our mutual
Stubbornness and lack of
Laziness to love
Each other
Not to mention
Jumping into
Pools of sweet
Aching memories
To hold you again
And again
I love to miss you
I live to kiss you
Meet me
Under the bridge tonight
I’ll miss you much less
Making out in the light
On the left side
Of the creek
Beneath the night

© GÄ