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Moon Migration

I love you for the
30 years you were alive
Not the one day
That you died

If I enter through
The narrow gate
A black hole piloting
365 years ago
A discovery of the first
Moon found in a pack of 92
Wolves call out to you
For wide is the gate
Spacious is our road
That leads to
Conception and many
Stars like yours
Have entered through it
However tiny is the doorway
Narrower the Milky Way
That leads to life
Without you in it
Only few will find it

I’ve found you
In every leaf
Traveling in the smoke
Sweet incense stairs
Hanging in the air
I find you there
Migrating towards the aura
Wrapped around my heart
Orbiting in one resilient
Sterling pulse

Drifting further
And further away
From the planet
It gave birth to
Circling my center
Even in winter
No matters darkness
Can break or shatter
What we’ve sealed

Any Way

Start here
Stop there
Over here
Over there

What’s the difference
If we never begin anyway

Slope or no slope

Find the point
Choose x
It doesn’t really matter y

As if to Coarse

Interpretation for an early bed
When I think of you like this
Capture the essence of
The warmth from your kiss
I am here in your arms

If I found another space in time
Where ultimatums rest
To feel your heart strike against
The beat beneath my chest

Where question came to me in wonder
Which would you choose to know?

Which room will you
End up in physically?

I choose your door

Here’s a copy of my key
From me

At My Table

Sitting at the table
Looking back
On things I’ve learned
Things I know
And things that he
Could only show
In his way
And in his prayers
I can see
Why he means
The world to me

Oh in my grandfathers hands
And in his prayers

In That Room

Where do you go
When you have no where to turn
When up is a cup of pleasure
That ends at the break of dawn
Certainly what is good
Will come out of it
Still the will to want more
Can fall short at the door
Also fancy footwork
In the making
Choreographing the days
To mimic the moments related
To joy and wanderlust
In a bed full of friends
On a couch with no space
For even one more rear end
Squished into the happiness
The laughter that lasts
Forever and ever after
As the calendar flips along
And the days droll and flounder
Month after month
Year after year
Remember my dear
The fun that we had
Don’t get too caught up
Becoming the businessman
You are also a bright glowing
Human of light and love
That knows how to have fun
In that room that you once
Found yourself satisfyingly tuned
To the station of life’s songful
Loon and an instrument to
Discovery not just robotically
Filling out forms
Paying the bills
Though you may catch your thrills
In different ways than before
Remember my dear
Have some fun like you did
When you were a kid
In that room

Effort

Is it strange to say
This is the last piece
Reconnaissance to my
Opus of singularity
Finally the missing part
To claim my entire heart
The space back that
We have shared
The moments that
I dared to try
Would leave no room
For anyone else
To give it a go
As you know we
Gave it our all
This goodbye is not
Forever just a clever
Way to say see you soon
When you have your mountain
Your own throne to
Adorn yourself in
No longer will you need
Me to do this for you
And I won’t feel like I’m
Holding myself back to
Nouveaux chapters
I have yet to write
You will be a part of those too
Just in a different way
We can still play
Just in separate places
Different spaces
On different days
Boundaries
Remember I still love you
Yes even now
That the time has come
For me to share my love
In a different way
No need to live undercover
No need to hide what I feel
No argument
No expectation
Just a clean slate of
Clarity and many cakes
To eat in our own places
Nothing replaces our memory
We are still creating new ones
Just in a different way
This is effort

Tomorrow

Wherever did the wind blow
To sweep you cooly in
Wherever will the wind be
To escort you calmly out
The stress of the unknown
Yesterday
Exhibits pain from those
Not listening now
There is a voice inside
My head that tells me
Everything will be okay
Does the head say one thing
And the heart the other?
Is there only one voice or many
A lot of decisions
One true path
Just take a bath
Meditate and wait
Answer the question tomorrow
Don’t respond right away
Impulse says to
Take a deep breath
Tomorrow will arrive
At its usual hour

Here They Come

There are demons
In the streets
Sharpened knives and
Jagged teeth
Light casts hope upon
The fires that have donned
Our wicked truths
No hiding from
What darkness preys
Romance will slay
True love daggers
Flames of rage
Misinformation finds a way
Into the hearts
Into the minds
Of the innocent

Nothing & Everything

Nothing is the same
Everything has changed
Isn’t that what we said
When the sun rose yesterday
Everything is changing
Nothing is the same
But everything would mean nothing
If nothing ever changed
Watch the roses open
See her petals fall
Hymns are never changing
The church folks sing them all
Same birds always flying
Different ones for sure
Sometimes bees are dying
Making honey all the more
Bedtimes shift with seasons
Miracles they come ‘round
But surely they will go
Just as waters currents
Are ebbing as they flow
If ever we were living
In a world that never changed
What would we end up learning
Pass the times to rearrange?
I miss the friends I saw on Tuesday
But then again I miss the ones
From many many years ago
I’ll surely make some new ones
With forty years ahead or more
Everything is changing
Nothing is the same
But everything would just mean nothing
If nothing ever changed

Z

Follow to the end
Of the alphabet
With your index finger
Draw a line
What do you find
The curves of my dreams
The miracles we achieved
Moments that would never be
If we hadn’t shown up
To make them real
How many is twenty five
Steps we take to get
From beginning to
The place where we
Start over again
Footprints on the path
Down to the water
Where cattails cast
A shadow on the mirror
That reflects the years
What we have gathered
In our baskets
Tales of our ages
All the way down
Irises and lilacs
Marigolds and ferns
A forest full of life events
We have yet to live and learn
In every acorn shell
Lies a fantasy to retrieve
Trailing down a strand of hair
Past the sunset on your cheek
I imagine you will meet me
In a grove over the hill
Where emotions hang
From coniferous melodies
I’m bringing you a meal
Something to quench your thirst
Six pockets full of love
More than enough
My heart could burst
From A I find you resting
Our true beginning in a bed
While birds are nesting
In the trees above my
Curious head
Underneath the branches
Tangled by the sea
Peacefully awaiting
On solace blanket
Full of Z’s