Alone and detached
A solitary fellow
Typically good at privacy
Am I a tower of a person
What does that amount to?
Like a skyscraper
No one can reach the top of
I just wanted you
To be nice to me consistently
Crazy provenance
Broken reality
How exhausting but also
What liberty!
What freedom!
What destiny to reveal
My greatest ecstasy
The heirloom to a story
My body has yet to tell
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Broken-hearted
Or is it broken departed
Too many no’s at one time
Loving in the fantasy
Of my mind
Resting in the shade
Of the bower of your heart
My incendiary flowerbed
We knew all of this before
Collectively we just
Never learned it
Enthralled
Feeling every feeling
Every sensation
Every pore
All the channels
Super loaded
Flooded and exploded
In my body
Somber notes
To coax your heart and arms
Around me
Lay down in the bower
Of this incendiary flowerbed
A hammock
A small town fabric
Of undoubted love
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Knowing you were there
Missing where we were
That night
Your hair
The moment that didn’t know
How to kiss me back
Jumping up and down
The laughter all around
I’ve never heard
So many birds chirping
We danced and
Someone’s wedding bells
Were ringing and clanging
In the backyard
Of my heart
One tiny moment
In space and time
It feels like all we get
Even if we gave a lot
I just wanted to absorb you
Stand back and let you shine
Watch you do your best
Blinding light
Love unlike the rest
Love unlike the rest
Love unlike…
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You broke me open
With cracks of light
Love lava pouring out
From everywhere
Each pore is erupting
Where is it all running
Off to
Where am I
Found
Is it always this explosive
To feel love again
Do we have to sew
My head back on
I am a permanent balloon
Drifting heartfelt
Oozing over
I am the number one
Fireworks producer
Creator of sparks
A dynamite cart
Pushing fast towards you
Off the edge
Crippled emotions
A happy beast in flight
A love feast in sight
Morning and night
Sun and moonlight
Lover in bright colors
I can feel you walking
All over my territories
Discoverer
You have uncovered
My treasure map
Your X
Marks the spot
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Hoping that I’d find you today
To give you a small note
I was hoping I could ask you
If you want to spend time
With me tomorrow
I could already taste
Your kisses
I already imagined
You would want to leave
Your mark on me
A love bruise on my neck
I had to ask you to stop
To pull away
To keep my image professional
Although I really didn’t want to
I hoped to say to you today
Everyday I say maybe tomorrow
But today is the day I say
I found you
You’re hard to catch
But unexpectedly easy
To find at first
Looking up into your eyes
Passing by
I saw you
You came and found me
And then you were gone
Where were my words
Why am I bad at this
I wasn’t looking for it
But now I’m thinking of it
I was hoping that
I’d find you today
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It’s easy to talk big
But I can jump in
Really hard and mean it
The important thing is
Not whether you can
Believe me but
If you can remember
Anything can happen
The great peel of excitement
Is always slipping off
The edge of my tongue
And often times
I end up
On the floor somewhere
But how do I get there?
Trust and honesty
Being trustworthy
Of anticipatorily redeeming the qualities
It doesn’t matter anyway
The dirt comes off the heel
In the same way
Every time
With a rinse and a scrub
I won’t shut down for
Any lack of what was hoped
But what was hope
What is hope?
Sometimes like smoking
The dope of someone’s lie
Their inability to try
Or just a handsome cup
Of almost
Barely there, I…
Barely enough, I…
Why commit to anything
If you can be free to commit
To nothing everywhere
I want to meet someone
Who gives a shit
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Oh my how
You look so cute
When you’re ordering food
Like a media darling
How do you adorn yourself
Every morning
How do you resist
To kiss yourself
I have no meter for
This sort of thing
It’s like taking a cool dip
After a long hot walk
To savor you
To put my arm across
Your back
To rest my chin
On your shoulder
To smell you
And feel your hair
Brush up against my lips
I’m not sure that
I’m equipped
To find the words
To tell the truth
Except to say
You look so cute
When you’re ordering food
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It’s cold and dark
Like emotional blackmail in here
Helping the less fortunate
Especially when it’s yourself
Can be impossible
The teachers discussed him
So now
The teachers disgust him
Similar sounds but
Different problems
Are any of us unloveable?
Maybe if the macaroni
Hadn’t gotten burned
Everything would taste better
Just like if wearing boxing gloves
Means we have to fight
Maybe the distance between us
Means we won’t have to
Fight at all
Or maybe we could fight
For them all
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Meditation by design
Obelisk by dog divine
The greatest lights
The brightest eyes
Shining back
With pure delight
Underneath a tree
Or by the water
You are a stream
You are a shrine
And a reminder
Of the beauty oh
What wanders
Here on earth
Valiant trust mixed into
Multicolored lust for life
Highlighted by the
Brightened exclamations
And the poundings
Of a heart
That never dies
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I had to try
The very best
Not to gamble my
Pretensions away
Somehow by gathering every
Seed of my innocence
At all costs
I stopped still
In the tracks of symbolism
As if my heart depended on
Resolving all the
Meaningless corruptions
That ever existed
Deep interpretations
Percolated up
Like a punch in the gut
I don’t recall
Any black eyes at all
Just the untarnished memories
Beating like mallets
On the membrane
Of the xylophone
In my mind
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