Start Over

It’s not that serious
They said just like
Empty sex in hotels
The same way actors
Make you feel
As if the kiss is
Meaningful or real
Lingering eye contact
Something superficial
Hiding behind the truth
Slowly becoming actual
Watch your step
In the future
Be forewarned
As crooked as things can get
It won’t turn out the way
You’re expecting
No blinking red lights
I believe that
We’re all still made of stardust
In the end
Which begs the question
Do we belong to ourselves
Or to the stars?
No vacancy
Preservation is expensive
You know
We could just start over
Demolish everything
Make a clean slate of it
Are we maintaining our innocence?
Does the melody
To remain the same neigh
Or does the sound
Of our change bray?
We hold in our hands the
Answer to a question
As delicate as the motel
That is crumbling
Down the way
There are people inside it
Maybe the activity is
Too arduous for saving ourselves
Collecting every piece
One tile of the roof at a time
We could hold onto it all
Or we could just start over

© GÄ

Push Start

Before the mountains were born
You brought me the world
A thousand years
Ferris wheeled into a day
As I watch you sleep
Peacefully in the night

Cradled in sheets blithe
With memories we have
Yet to anticipate
A breath before we breathe
A step before we climb
Forward to take
Another bite
We weave our potent fate

To grasp how wide
How long and high
How deep is this love
To know our passion surpasses
Broken and fixed knowledge
You fill me to a measure
Of exceptional fullness

Beyond what human existence
Can tally you are the
Darkest brightest dust
I’ve ever held
A composure of what seems
To glorify the gentlest
The kindest most
Tenderly being

How do you write your love script?
How do you make my heart skip?
How can we be this casually
In tune with nature’s flute

When the vines of yesterday
Crawl up our legs rooted in the
Soil of four foot intertwined souls
Thundering for the greater whole
Muddy with unexpected delight
Each bloom that unfolds
To tell our story is a petal
Floating sideways
In the galaxy of
Our hearts

This is how you make me
Push start

© GÄ