Adroit

To touch or to hold
Intimacy indoors
Is it for others
Or only for us

Eyes are watching
Does it matter
Will it erase
Our meaning

When the oranges
Brush one another
In the trees
Is this intimacy

Do we take from nature
Our lead
Or do we think we claim it
On our own

Volcanoes teach us
Eruption

Thorns demonstrate
Matters of pain

Universal mother
Do we make love like the earth

Can we replicate
Her passion

Is the fire
In our hearts
Consenting

Or are we
Only deceiving
Ourselves

© GÄ

Oranges

Some small trace of myself
Left behind in the remnant
Of self respect and courage
Floating on the coastline
Of an adoring possibility
Worshipping the traffic
Of my heart speeding
Past myself just fast
Enough to get beyond
My own feelings and it
Takes a turn like a page
In a book that seems
To predict that
This is all for my own
Relief from the distance
That was previously
Pitched extremely high
And all for the love of my
Peace of mind and oranges

© GÄ