Tag: You

By the Way

I guess we’re all guilty
Of downplaying
Our favorite
As if an ancillary moment
Is a second chance
At getting it right
When we missed it
Like the first time around
Déjà vu
I don’t want the end
To break away
Like a frayed rope
How can we prevent
Destiny if it’s already
Happening
How can we prevent
What’s going to unfold
Before it starts
I will to give it my all
Even if it is taboo
You can take it from me
I have nothing to hide
Take a bite out of the
Fantastiquement
When tongues are wagging
The truth crawls up
Nothing to reframe
Just plant the bush
And watch it bloom
No is necessary
Just paint your way
Into the next town
I’ll be there to meet you
With a pizza
If you like pizza
By the way
What do you like?

© GÄ

Archaeoastronomy

I wrote a song for you
It lit up the room
Everyone was embarrassed
For me because
My voice cracked when
I sang your name
I was singing it for you
Something like tears
In your throat or maybe
Tears on the backside
Of my hand just
Thinking about
You listening to what
I’ve been thinking about
You listening to what
I’ve been writing about
You listening to what
My antenna has been
Picking up about you
My heart has been
Wanting to admit it
When I looked over the moon
And saw the last line
I’d been trying to find
Somehow hiding from view
It was written in the stars
A dream you made come true
The homespun tune
A harpsichord
A noted song for you
A few chords pulling
At a heartstrings pace
A compass made of light
Archaeoastronomy chased
A casual drumming of
Directions to your place
It’s carved into the rocks
It’s older than the wind
A calypso and a dance
Just waiting to begin

© GÄ

Hey You

I’m a useful person
But I’m not sure
If I’m being useless
With myself
Evince me now
Wonderfully bad

Walking on glass
As if I’m barefoot on
Rose petals
The sky is grey
And I’m not cold when I’m
Standing in the garden

Take away the things
That sadness can bring
Open up the door
And let the light in some more
Evince me now
Wonderfully good

Standing on hot coals
As if I’m making wine
The old world way
The sky is grey
And I’m not cold when I’m
Standing in the garden

Too many times I listened
To the songs that said
Never be alone again
And believing all of them
Evince me now
Wonderfully nonchalant

I wrote the lyrics down
Can I sing this one again
Hey you, maybe
(This one’s for you)
The sky is grey
And I’m not cold when I’m
Standing in the garden

© GÄ

Near You

I remember I recall
Maybe I know nothing at all
I like to consider
The time before
I was wishing
Turning back the clock
But not so desperately
Anchored in the memory
If my eyes were open
I might have seen
The rise
I have a feeling
I was dreaming
So my eyes were shut
But I remember what
It was like before
Collectively we’re
All becoming more aware
Looking backwards
Future aware
Panting
Is this real
No backing down
Breathing heavy
How many times now
I’ve remembered
How it feels to be
Near you

© GÄ

You Again

As the sound of the door opened
My head shifted to the side
And a piano played it’s keys
Like the steps to a museum
Going deep underground
Into the bellows of a sanctity
Found only in the vicissitude
Of a successful dynamic leading
To the bloodline of the heart
In an ancient tomb curled up
At the base of your artifact
A cool breeze whispered through
As the sound of the door opened
And a butterfly came through
There was a message
Something about where to meet you
I can’t remember now but
It wasn’t considered the most
Important thing to recall
For I am sure to find my footing again
When I wrap my way back
To the place where I began
There would be two friends
Holding each hand and a memory
Hanging like a pendulum
Above me distant and overhead
Swinging with the wind
As the sound of the door opened
And I saw your face again
Like the water streaming over
Glass and eyelashes smeared
Against the wet with just
Two small beats occurring
Every other second as a heart
Might beat again in the sonogram
Of a sun and the whipping
Of the wind as the door opened
To the miracle of seeing you again

© GÄ

You Are Love

Before we expire
Before I predict the future
What were you trying to say to me
Through the fire in your eyes
That I am loved?
That I should not be solitary
Confined to a hopeless heart
A chamber of nothing and ashes
Reduced to the end of an empty glass
Or the last ember of a flame
Cancelled by my own nature
Could you pray for me
Could you ask the spirits to
Send someone to love me
For who I am and would it be
More than a fantasy to know
That even in all the good that has been
Anointed in me by the hands of
True love on my head of rectory
That I should know love the way
A flower sees the sun
That I should know no shame
The way a rose opens up to the wind
That I should fall in love with love
The way that nature has no name
Or that creation should bow down
On the sheets of amber grains
And cry tears of rain to the earth
Where from each drop that drips
Will grow the love over rose hips
Whispering again before we expire
You are love

© GÄ

Cute

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

© GÄ

Please

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

Get Lost

You can get lost
In a good way
If you don’t want to be found
If you don’t want to pretend
Like running from your demons
You don’t have to hang around
Falling into the same hole
That your fist left
In the wall of your heart
You built bricks
When the best ones
Played their dirty tricks
So that no one could
Climb over into your abyss
Who could ignore the outline
Of your lashes
Never get lost in the forest
Of your passion
Walk across the burning ashes
Towards your forever
For the sake of saying something
That lasts beyond
The outline of just words
Sliding with the gravity
Down to the center
Of your core
A piece of flint
A fire
You are a piece of me
A spark
A shift
You are
An uplift
A perfect shadow
You can get lost
In a good way

© GÄ