Along

A loaded gun for loving certainly –
I could be doing more if up to me –
Parked outside is someone else’s car –
And my Transcendence.

I kiss the furry cheek of my dog,
My cat I cradle careful of his claws,
Work will ring the triangle quite soon,
To afford the cost of one door –

Sequestered are the dreams of cold hard floors,
Wood burning stove – Poppies blowing–
Tomorrow growing closer –
As the sun rises to remind us –

O callous road– We travel to hell –
But idealize the possibility of heaven –
A mineral crown, my meager appetite –
One feather – only windswept –

The musk in the air gives direction,
A crack in the mind opens conversation–
My tongue finds the roof of my mouth –
Saturated words – treasures of the earth–

Before the end – get me away – however
Long streams of dusk and dust
Carry me along at first cast of recognition
A Destiny of detrimental trust –

© GÄ

Deathsong

No longer go on
No lingering on
Gliding towards the cliff
A romance with the edge
Could end the self torture
Eliminate the inability
To please them all
Eventually get over it
It feels so insurmountable
How many days are we
Counting waking up
On how many fingers
Is the blame numbered
Could’ve done it better
Didn’t do it right
The night before
The day before
Settle the score
Can’t turn back the clock
Wish I may, Wish I might
Lights go out tonight
No longer go on
No lingering on
No more waking up
Wishing that I didn’t
Just don’t wake up
At all no need to
Break the fall
Find my thick skin
Deathsong all night long
Deathsong calls the caw
Crawling away from
My insides want to
Erase all the feelings as
Though my existence is
Causing more harm
Than good one thing
Goes wrong it piles on
In a glorious chorus
The voice is crucified
Find my thick skin
Deathsong all night long
Deathsong lingering on
No longer go on like this
Death kiss death bliss
No more disappointing
No more vocally corroding
Those who listen
Peace from my mistakes
Stars that glisten
Breaks the fall
Releases it all
Sadness is still the
Purest form of suffocation

© GÄ

Orotund

Orotund feelings leading
Up to exasperation
Hungry for a calm moment
Petrified and waiting for
One I think will never come
Probable and unlikely
Striking a deep nerve
Looking for a noble citizen
Someone to take me seriously
Someone who can laugh
At themselves and at
My ridiculous nature
I need to take a breath
My sleep is disenfranchised
Suspended like a pendulum
Swinging back and forth
Over the memories I’m creating
Pretty compelling I’m so
Exhausted I hope I can
Remember who I am tomorrow

© GÄ

Who Knows

You feel like you’re falling apart
Like everything you have
Maybe means less than you
Thought it would or does or
What does it mean to be
Too much around the edges
Crispy and hard to digest
What a nap could most likely fix
Is also not totally guaranteed
I can smell the faint smoke
Of the neighbors cigarette
Lingering in the air
The thought of moving to a
Different town smelling
Someone else’s smoke
Lingering in the air perhaps
Even Greece appeals to me
In a way that sort of forgives
This avant garde way of living
A sip of redemption and
Perhaps an escape along the
Edge of a cliff not pretending
To be alive or escaping
Reality but just wanting
To be fiercely honest about
Who I am and now gravely
Entangled by some betterment
Of what doing well for or
As well as a person could be
At living life; ejects me into what
Would give up some deeper
Resolution to the meaning
Of life or at the very least
Help release the grasp I
Have so tightly gripped
Onto thinking I was going
About it in some especially
Wonderful way but
Who knows

© GÄ

Perfect

Maybe it’s too perfect
The way that you could fit
Is it too perfect
That you could slip right in
Maybe it’s too perfect
Too good to be true
There’s not enough wine
In the world to soothe
Feelings of not being
Loved enough… Maybe
You can do the trick
From the outset you
Appear as though you
Might have a magical
Wand in your pocket
Click your heels sort
Of person- I wonder if
The way that I see you
Is too perfect or
Maybe I’m reading it
Exactly the way that
It is… Are you a wizard
Are you casting a
Love spell I can’t tell…
Is it the way you look
At me- Is it the eye
Contact that’s melting
Me- Is it the fantasy
That I’ve imagined
You so perfectly
Maybe it’s too perfect
The way that you could
Slip in here so naturally

© GÄ

Minds Eye

Your photo seems to match up with an image in my mind,
My heartbeat blasts in the same way volcanos do.
Like a dream I can’t wake up from for to find;
From what I gather birds are flying backwards today-
Still water resilient fish are swimming upside down,
Moving in time with every muscle in my body;
Twitching with rhythm that is strangely cathartic
Though the humming of the earth should bring him joy
Nature makes a way to metaphor
Even our feet can’t tread away from what will be;
Inevitably the wind will take us by the hand
Spinning is the sensation of possessing
Every little thing the planet has to offer.
A pure intent for post arrival is returned
And we are learned only to be what we are limited to be,
For we can only transcend what we know to see.

© GÄ

Winning

Neptune please why won’t
Someone just love him
“She cried,”
Listen to my pleas
Is this a race
For us to see
Who can hold out for
The longest and if so
What’s the point in that!?
But with grace on my knees
Not until we’re
All blue in the face
Put your lips on him
Your arms surrounding
Giving every drop of love
This purple moon has been found
To shine down upon
Inside you have more to give
Received empathetically
Don’t hold back
Relentlessly
Free the good
Reach inside from within
Everything you have
Is rewarded
To win

© GÄ

Electric

A little less crazy
A little less psycho
A little more mindful
With you
Disheartened by
Virtually nothing
Dark nights on the port
While the railway runs
Keep transporting
Crashing underneath
The stars like
Kindred spirits
Beneath the surface
Of the city lights
Where the water pools
And the rain delights
Milk and honey
Drips across the lips
Of a ponderous kiss
Your head on my chest
My best is at rest
With the crook of
Your neck in the grasp
Of my hands as the pulse
Of the power lines dance
Between us electric

© GÄ

Somewhere

How does it strike the chord
Inside how does it find that
Place I’ve been looking for
City lights wind on my face
The perfect song looking
Up into outer space
How does it remind me of what
I’m trying to find and for
How long will I be seeking
What I hoped to find since my
Youth and still haven’t been able
To touch just out of reach
But you know it’s there
You hear the words you feel
The notes inside and you
Know it’s around the corner the
Connection but you don’t know where
Somehow blowing through the sky
Reach out and wait to see
If the two align because it
Seems like everything about
Me knows it could be true holding
In my hands caught up in an era
The date that waits to
Meet the fate of you
I could be good for you
You could be good for me too

© GÄ