Poem – Page 4 – Poétique

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You cry because
You miss him
But do you
Cry because
You miss me?
Does it make
Any difference that
I’m alive
And he is gone?
Would you,
Cry because
You miss me
But not cry because
You miss him
If I was gone?
No longer human
Just an ether
We miss what we
Can’t have and
Forget about what
Is always there
Because we’re human
We mourn the dead
And forget the living
Like the end of summer
It’s not over till it’s over
Can we love the living
Just as we
Mourn the dead
Mourn me
Be with me
As I want to be
With you
While we’re still
Here

Sky

Some days I feel like I am
Living in a body that has
Already had its funeral
I can be more amazing
Than I am behaving
Befuddled by my own
Momentary lapse of
Seizing the instant
Someone wise said to me
Seeking no and
Being told no creates
Cracks and that’s how
The light gets in
Our failure is the only
Way we learn
Be satisfied with yes or no
Because you’re going to get
What you’re going to get
Regardless

Perhaps they’re not my words
But they become our words
When we own them and
Adopt them into
Our spiraling cores
Which says
Everything is everything

Into the ground
Up to the sky

Access the Thief

I crown the mask
That we all wear
Just so I
Can stand to bear
My own deceit

Pleasures run
Away from the stolen
Treasures that permit
My own defeat

Crowding out innocence
Like a bandit
It makes no sense
Any own standard
Are we unpredictable
Are we all accountable
For wanting something
That we cannot grasp

If finding ways to get inside
Access the thief
Betray the pride

This is the final test
To see what we can find

The birth certificate
For my life
Is parading around
Town as if it’d
Like to be noticed

A trophy for love

We cannot involve
Our passions when the
Distance means more than
To grasp onto a fact
Steal away

Aggrandizement

It’s okay to feel tired
It’s good to take space
Find your peace
You’re allowed to
Not want to do anything
A whole lot of whatever
To just lay there
Ask nothing of yourself
Release the pressure
Blow the top
Wipe your lips
Of all the stress
Anything you feel
That makes you less
Takes away from
What it’s okay to be
Without requirement
To do everything
Answer every text
Respond to every email
Turn it off, release
Find your place in
No means for keeping up
Just existing is
Outstanding
In itself relief
Maybe the biggest
Thing you’ve ever done
That’s what’s called
Letting go

Intimité

Intimacy may you
Consummate in me
A powerful union of
Unmistakable love
Irreplaceable
Self impeding
What is the reason
Orange peel
Crushed dreams
Simpler times
Erotic screams
Moaning for more
Love before the end
Feelings of a head
Explosion easier
To relieve the notion
Just forget get back to
It the way life goes
Fake a nap wake up
See where you stand
How you feel
Beautiful hands
Waiting to hold the
One who could it be
Perfect day
Dark clouds
Spiraling in ecstasy
Nothing left
No more
Roses, gardens, tea
Music in the ministry
Stand on top
Of what you believe
Be sad be bold
Outspoken behold
Magnetic poles
Beauty disclosed
What’s the remora
A state of being familiar
In our amorous minds
Driving fast towards
An inward communion
Don’t push it away
The gift of intimacy
Traversely fleeting
Receive it completely

Prosaic

Le tongue is prosaic
At best sort of lost in the
Palimpsest tossed onto
Papyrus and leaves
A mix of water and
Greensleeves to do the
Job for every ear and
Eye to behold the
Underfold of irritation
to explain not every word
Is arcane but many of the
Hiding behind the truth
Of needing to believe
Were understood if you
Can catch my drift
Get my meaning
Climb inside me
Close as you can be
It’s rare they do exist
I have had one of these
The strong words we
Tell ourselves in order
To achieve some distance
From the emotions of the
Blazing sun in our eyes
Fighting with computers
And life just to get the
Words out on the page
Music saves me the
Notes convey the things
I need to say whether
They get it or not
The love the smile
What hits the spot
It’s all coming out
In a rush having nothing
Means having something
When we hav me a little more
It feels like too much to
Behold and so we go back to
An empty seat in the
Airport waiting at the
Terminal to board
A plane that takes us
Out of our prosaic minds
Poetically to
Find a world that rhymes or
Doesn’t keep the time
Irrelevant motions
Broken behaviors
Temporary saviors
What’s in it anyway
Hide behind the hedge
Listen to the conversation
Of strangers fall asleep
With whisky on your lips
What’s the difference
It’s all poison
So some say love
Would be the same
Poison on our lips
We can’t resist

Welter

Like we welter a storm
Or do we weather it?
You can’t love me
In the same way
That I love you
But it feels like
You do

When I’m with you

Loving so much that
It questions the ability
To be loved that’s the
Headache of the fall
Jack and Jill went
Up the hill to fetch a
Pail of love

I don’t think that’s how
The nursery rhyme goes
But we all end up tumbling
Down the hill somehow
Or another

Never had a love that
Held me like
“It’s gonna be alright.”
I’m good at that
I’ll fix you up
I need very little
In spite of it all

Just to look you
In the eyes
To know your love
Wake up with it
Everyday you can
Be sure to have
My everything
Even when the real world
Crashes in

Every morning it’s a sin
To be without you
Even in the fantasy
I know that no reality
Holds a place for
You and me
Scavengers of love
On the hunt
Lone wolves
Lazy thumbs

Let the sun stay behind the clouds
Just for today as I dream
Of our future unattainable love

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