My Friend

I walked the roughest road
became grounded, weathered by time
removed the past from the surface of my skin
emptied my contents on the river banks,
stayed the high-ground,
felt the suns blaze upon my skin
stripped raw,
polished to a patina.

Sovereign soul friend, I slipped -
hidden in fissures between pages of reality
my passion rapped upon doorways unseen
tumbled down pathways of unknown outcomes
personal joys, personal prisons
flames singed connections
ash created new growth
as clear as the light in your eyes.

What is life if not lived beyond fear
dared notions of love -
you in your restless knowing
your eyes shouted volumes – pushed
upon your lips to tell with certainty
the challenge of what it means to be
human, faulted to perfection
glorious, tender, wise,
within and without direction.

 

 

Shadows in the Canopy

Through sunshine,
my eyes fixed their stare
found the darkest places,
shadows in the canopy called
their earthen weathered secrets
whispered to reach in, pull -
contorted roots grasped
subterranean splendor.

Tasted Fractures

Not until
lashes hit cheeks
did I slip
revealed my galaxy -
a pinhole in the pleat
of existence,
it was then,
I crawled to you
reached your silver edges
breathed the depth,
learned the flavor of your history
tasted fractures -
opulent stones thrown into the night
revealed as whispers -
celestial glimpses of you.

Wound in Ribbons

A kiss without
stardust strung together
wound in ribbons of fire
across oceans of universes
within souls birthing epiphanies
is meaningless and forgettable.

I Woke Up Like This

Do I consume your mind the way you do mine,
last star you see on the horizon
first light to resurface at the break of dawn,
my name hidden inside you, as you are in me
created in a spell of fruition,
reality before you that you cannot give permission?

I kept you hidden for years
denied your existence, a residency of my heart
pretended insignificance, an already wasted last chance
closed my eyes to keep you from the surface
you fed my dreams in a love revolution of resistance,
subtle hope created waves.

Transcendent in significance, infinite,
took me a lifetime to discover there is no end,
nor a resolution that may fit within the confines,
flesh barely contained spirit, how do you expand
greater than the two, paramount gift of life,
separate and entwined, heart and body, you and I, divine.

Opalescent Cord

Threaded spells cast between us
an intoxication teetered on the edge
hung over the verge of the abyss,
this mystery, I glimpsed – carried, weighted
until the next time.

Silence stings in mid-air, arrests time
slid between glances, soft words, lips curled
you smile, a line divination, drawn out
a future to never appear
as long as it takes forever.

You stayed behind your wall, I saw
you threw me a line,
we had no need for doors
you wore your heart upon your sleeve,
masked as art, turned over
you let me see you bleed,
just enough - a fix, my elixir, a sliver of you.

I climbed into you, with pain
found you in my heart with love,
who called to whom in this mystery,
threaded shimmer – opalescent cord
connected energy heavy between us
my heart tremored.

Watch Me

Watch me, swoon
for you are a fool,
and my every breath
is restless,
escaping my throat
I gasp,
fear I am the last
grasp
for straws are too weak,
to fill holes in my soul
I reach beyond the earth
a mistaken time warp.

Cloaked

Sweet torrent shimmer,
absolve the darkness
create gloom where there was none,
in it I stretch
unable to see beyond
to the second layer,
blurred in a haze, moist
I pull my cloak down,
as unknowable,
I am the shadow
elsewhere in the mist.