Stress

When someone pours their
Heart out to you
Show them some kind of sign
That you got it
The only way to get past the
Stress is to acknowledge it
And move on
Stop repeating the pattern
Own it in the moment
Five decades later
Still contemplating the truth
When you know it already
Listen to your body
Stop second guessing
To play this game with yourself
Is a special kind of torture
Out in the open
Stand up and call it
Perfect by nature
It will satisfy your want
A desire to be excellent
Not good
This kind of pressure
Cannot exist in a
Mediocre world
Today marks the day
No matter the time
No matter what comes
No matter what’s on the way
We stand for getting it right
In the moment
Stick to what you know
No need to experiment
With the lock when
You already have the key

© GÄ

Bells

Maybe money
Is more important to you
Maybe respect
Means nothing for you
Maybe the whole world
Revolves around you
Like the sun

Trust is delicate
With people that have been
Broken into
You made a choice
That was for you
That was for YOU!

I can be here to support that
But not as a friend really
If I have to be a companion
To myself

The choice you made
Erased the trust
That I had for you
When you said you wouldn’t do
What you did finally do

Poor communication
Negative approach
Springing it on me
Even in winter

And so we keep the
Peace, peace, peace
I will show up for
You, you, you
But as a friend
It will feel so contrary
So opposite and empty
For what you looked past
In me feels lost

I love to see a bird walking
Instead of flying across the street
Choices were made

© GÄ

Along

A loaded gun for loving certainly –
I could be doing more if up to me –
Parked outside is someone else’s car –
And my Transcendence.

I kiss the furry cheek of my dog,
My cat I cradle careful of his claws,
Work will ring the triangle quite soon,
To afford the cost of one door –

Sequestered are the dreams of cold hard floors,
Wood burning stove – Poppies blowing–
Tomorrow growing closer –
As the sun rises to remind us –

O callous road– We travel to hell –
But idealize the possibility of heaven –
A mineral crown, my meager appetite –
One feather – only windswept –

The musk in the air gives direction,
A crack in the mind opens conversation–
My tongue finds the roof of my mouth –
Saturated words – treasures of the earth–

Before the end – get me away – however
Long streams of dusk and dust
Carry me along at first cast of recognition
A Destiny of detrimental trust –

© GÄ

Trusting You

I trust your word is truth
We are innocent the two of us
We have not experienced
Any of this
Thinking there could be
Something more
Is just a part of what
Our compassion
Wants to be
You would think
Bodies and minds
Could change this geography
But we’re both on the same rock
Standing together
Accosted by love
Scarlet centuries
Of plural existences
Like a geometric heart
Erected in the universe
Inescapable affects
Of pure certainty
I trust your word is truth
Look out for me
I’ll be looking out for you

© GÄ

Trust is Truth

Hearing the truth
Is awkward
It can be daunting

To be
In total control
Over what I do

Why would one want to?

I am an energy
Driven person
I consider all things
Surrounding
How I make my move

If I tell you the truth
Will you accept it?
Or will you make me
Want to regret it?

The only growth we have
Is the chance we take
In sharing the reality
That ignites our fate

If we speak the truth
We live the truth
To seek the truth
Will refuse
Any clouded
Passive imagination
That will mask
Our crystal view

I don’t want to fake it
Till we make it
This would create
A false pretense
We can be the truth
Together
Enlightened
Beyond
A sad defense

Behold our honesty
Trust so brilliant
Clear and shining through
Without cruel restriction
To discover
Balanced truth

© GÄ