If there are
No more requests
I’ll let you go
For now
I don’t want to
Slap myself
Or wear a sign
Around my neck
That says
Don’t manipulate me
With the obvious
Love story
Don’t allow me
To manipulate you
By sending charming
Hearts to hopefully
Make myself feel better
Or to convince myself
That you love me
Even if I
Made a mistake
Because I know
That you love me
I’m just really bad at
Telling myself that
It’s the truth
© GÄ
When the phoenix rises
And the ashes fall away
There is a clarity
That prims the sun
Like a gong
These feelings are yours
But they were also
Someone else’s before
They were yours
When your grandmother
Comforts you
When your best friend
Comforts you
When the person you
Trust the most
Comforts you
And says
Time heals all wounds
It’s because they know
And they’ve been
There before
Falling differently
One day further away
Less defeat
More complete
I am more complete
We are more unique
When the ashes fall away
© GÄ
I have a memory of when
To begin was to begin
Not to endure
Not to pull through
Just to begin
As when we fall
Back up again
Footsteps in time
Will surely find
What to begin again
Feels like
A faithful friend
When we are faced with
What feels right
A new beginning
Is renewed
With memories
That in the end
Will rise
Before the
Dawn of time
Begins again
© GÄ
I thought I was hungry
I forgot my appetite
Or even that I had one
To watch me eat
Would it bring you
Great pleasure?
I am hungry still
But not for food
I have an appetite for
Life for living
For not saying goodbye
Too soon
For not telling a lie
But the truth
And maybe for
Catching you
Like a fish
If honesty
Gets away
From you
What if
You would be the one
That I would call
If I locked myself in a closet
And couldn’t see anyone
You could be the one
That I would call
If I were famous
If I couldn’t read the things
That people said
If I couldn’t search the web
You are the only one
Who would know me
Through it all
A different kind of hunger
If I were famous
A desire to be free
To be alone
Momentarily
Just long enough
To recall
How to
Take a bite
© GÄ
Something so sharp
Can come biting down
And for what
Quite so quickly
But for why
With each step that we take
And each smile we would fake
It will come
Sharply biting down
All around
I wrote down
What to think
I wrote it all down
Very quick
In green ink
I then tore out the page
And then gave it a day
Before crawling
Away to escape
Across the courtyard
And into the sun
Where I found the
Last place that we
Smiled without looking back
Without searching for fun
Without looking
At all
© GÄ
Darkened light
Climbs up through
A veil of black
Discounted hope
Abridged by
Optimistic prisms filled
With the fragrant colors
Of tomorrow’s
Open eyes
Pursed lips
And gritted teeth
Can only mean one thing
Less anger
More love
Blinding lights
Who can breathe
Like this
Sheets of emotion
Wrap themselves around me
There were many
Who never came
You never left
Don’t ever leave
There were many
Who never came
You never left
Please don’t ever leave
© GÄ
If birds can fly
Why do they choose to walk
Lots of things die
Even friendships
To be the
Salt of the earth
Is it also
To feel okay
In the skin that you’re in
Without anything but
Yourself
It can take awhile
To get back there
If you are ready
I want to send you
A signal
Like a present
A song you can recite
Maybe then
We can choose to fly
Like birds
© GÄ
We have a broken cord
A mystic multi thread
Many parts empty
But with certainty some links
Are chained and bonded
Interwoven broken
Hit or miss cracks
Fullness and emptiness
Sometimes we gather the spark
Often it feels too dark
The pit of my stomach
Unsure that it wants to feel
Unreel the ugly parts
Uncovering the pretty parts
The glistening smile
Behind the damp unpredictable
Scars
A friendly time
From time to time
Filling the blanks
With happy space
And remedies
For broken dreams
© GÄ
Was it real?
Did you feel
What you said you felt?
Now I have to question
All the things you said
And maybe it’s because
We never went to bed
And maybe it’s because
You can’t control me
Like you control everyone else
Or maybe it’s because
It wasn’t real
How did you feel
My recent conclusion
Comes from waves of outer space
Knowing that you could just be
A comet burning brightly
In and out of my existence
Just an outline to erase
Though we had years
To rediscover one another
I may not have been what you need
In this phase of your life
And I can’t need you
To be there for me
In ways that you’re
Incapable of being
Discovered
Too bad it feels
Too late
© GÄ
A seagull in the fog
A day and nine hours away
A hundred miles
And with no one to play
I can acquire the world
Plan for all the things to do
But somehow
It doesn’t mean very much
Unless you’ve got someone
To share it with
Closer to you
GÄ
Poétique 