Trembling hands tucked tenderly in the pockets
Of an overcoat pretense ministered with a smile
Nervously adjacent to a tangled weave of angels
We administer the dosage of a thousand sleepless nights
I feel the tug of Atlas asking penance for his negligence
While I, beneath it all, can muster nothing but a laugh
The serenade of symphonies concluding these procedures
Is the theme for those who fall in love but never make it back
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Clouds I Packed
Fragments of the bridges we burned
In the charred grey haze
In the soft blue grass
My hand on your future
Your palm on my past
Little scraps of clouds I packed
In the zippers and pockets
Of the walls we moved
And the paint we peeled
For the dreams we drew
Under stark white dots
Oh, the skies we knew
Were
Bigger than the snowfall over those mountains
And bigger than the love all over these hills
Our sky was on fire
Our hearts were our needles
Our eyes were a compass
Our bodies unbound
Bigger than the words repainted from ancients
And bigger than door frames over this house
Our sky is on fire
Our blankets untorn
Our love is like water
Our bodies still warm
(sorry for the delay. I’ve been relocating and adjusting. Thank you for your patience)
Stratus Arrested
Stratus arrested
We escort the vestige
Of dusk and deliverance
Over the threshold of
Coverless endings
A yarn of our spinning
In blood we invested
And stratus arrested
Further Out
Carefully, carefully each piece is fitted for unearthly pressures and strange atmospheres
Charting and planning this voyage to never return
Checking the hatches we make every effort to preserve the pressure and seal in the air
Counting in sequence; the boosters beginning to burn
Here at the dawn with our chins lifted high
To the moon and beyond
Further out
Tipping our hats to the friends standing by
We are already gone
Further out
Into the ink of a fathomless evening these fires will drive us a lifetime from here
Guided by only a dream and the things that we made
Gravity tied to our ankles could not stop the breaking at last as the world disappears
Weightless, and empty we dance on the edge of this blade
Limits were set for the innocent sky
But we never belonged
On the ground
Dangerous business captured our eye
From the mysteries held
Further out
Look for our light when the clouds have all cleared
Out with the stars on the galaxy floor
Reaching for what is not offered down here
Breaching the distance, persistent for more
Come Alive
Dormant lungs, paralyzed
Body hung suspended
Tired heart; empty eyes
Tainted from remorse
Injuries there inside
Agonies unspoken
Broken dreams; hope denied
War without recourse
Lay them down, my dearest one
Let the stripes across your back
Mend in time–mend with love
Casualties of these attacks
Come alive again, my dear
Weakened wings can fly from here
Vestige of my darling friend
Come alive–awake again
Visiting Hours
The windows are clean
The pillows are soft
The sheets are pristine
The TV is off
I miss you so much
Won’t you come around
We haven’t heard a whisper
We haven’t heard a sound
If can hear me
If you are awake
I came to see you
So you don’t forget
I don’t have a lot
But I brought you flowers
I’m only allowed
For visiting hours
The medicine is stronger
The treatments are longer
Than we could have dreamed
I know that you’re tired
And you don’t belong here
But I still believe
One day the doctor
Will tell us you’re better
And you’re ready to leave
But I will keep coming
And sitting beside you
Until you revive
The bed is adjusted
The magazines placed
My fingers are warm
On your quiet face
I miss you so much
I wish you were here
Just wanted to say
There is someone who cares
Passing Notes
Scratching away
Marks for the days
Etched in stone
Along these walls
Ear to the ground
Praying for sound
To let me know
That all is well
Fighting for air
Cracks in the wall
Passing notes
Clasping hope
Justice will come
Love will prevail
To shake these bars
And break these cells
Humdrum Heart
Wake up, you tired little muscle
Don’t let me down today
I know you’ve been working overtime
Just keep some blood in my veins
We have a lot to accomplish
If we work together I’m sure
We will find rest out here someday
The humdrum of living will disappear
Sleep when you can
Don’t lose your rhythm
Keep yourself warm
You can’t stop giving
I still depend
On you being steady
So wake up, my friend
Although you are heavy
I will take care to protect you
If you won’t abandon me now
I can’t guarantee I won’t break you
I guess we both know how that worked out
We still have daylight for living
And moonlight for being alone
Wake up and bring me some color
We have so much to get done
Sleep when you can
Don’t lose your rhythm
Keep yourself warm
You can’t stop giving
People can’t see
How you’ve been exhausted
But they can see me
And I need to make it
So wake up, you tired little muscle
Don’t let me down today
I know you don’t feel like moving
But please keep some blood in my veins
We have a lot to accomplish
If we work together I’ll bet
We can be all they expected of us
So please don’t give up on me yet
Vow Of Silence
If all the world would take a vow of silence
If all the mouths were stopped for just a day
If we could trade some stillness for our violence
And give a better thought to what we say
If all the world would hold their tongue a moment
If all the curses faded out in pause
If all the politicians and their rantings
Would take a second place to inner laws
I think it would be nice to pass unspeaking
And tilt a hat or smile as we greet
To listening to the birds in meditation
perhaps a day of quiet would be sweet
It seems to me that all the noise of language
And all the words we form will never do
To prove the truth of what we show in actions
To say, by way of living, “I love you”
Second Plan
Was I brave or was I reckless
I can’t decide as I look at this
Mess I’m in with only me to blame
Was it wrong to think that love is
Bigger than the walls around us
Nothing here will ever be the same
Clouds roll in and I roll over
In my bed but it’s not over
Questions linger hanging from
These ceilings where the pain began
I don’t know how to recover
Grasping just to face another
Day where I can understand
To love without a second plan
Was I brave or was I reckless
I can’t decide as I look at this
Mess I’m in with only me to blame
Still I must believe that love is
Bigger than these walls around us
When it comes it changes everything
Enclosure
Interred in juggernaut walls
Rifted as it were from form well fit
By cause or catastrophe untold
Folded for wilting
Petals lain in tired heaps about this enclosure
Swept up in figure crumpled slumped and sunken in efforts spent
To rend mortar from brick to crack sick structured severance
Laced in loosely laid arguments
Spun for movements yet untaken
In desperation resolve forsaken
Trapped
But not apparent
These exits hid for time when waking reason sheds inhibition
When sense and sensitivity are molded first for what cannot be seen
Which here now resides
Bent in shadow
Drawn for eyes of brighter respect
Whose lenses cleansed again repent the disbelief in trade for what is made
Gentle fingers to trace the contour of this devil’s grave
In truth to discover the clever architect of such cruel monuments
Could not a tyrant be
If indeed as tyrants go a hand external this would mean
Entombed in grave remorse or faded course
For drunken charting in love’s throes
A figure fair and sovereign did fashion such a cavern
If not by reason
Then by lack of will to look beyond a cold unforgiving frame
To name an enemy unseen a thing of dreams or even more a ghost
But ghosts do not here dwell
And ghosts
Though present nonetheless
Do not the dwelling of the living form
Nor lay the bricks
A holding pen
If that is what it is that you are in
May rise but ‘neath the guide of only one
The one in which resides this mortar
This brick
This mob of walls from which is not a certain door
And so laid
Crumpled on the floor
A figure bathed in cascaded darkness all it’s own
To wrap in rags from sorrow sewn
A thing of beauty
A thing of bright elements infused
Of such a race that angels envy for their loves
Disfigured in despair by air oppressed and rent of rest
And yet…
Free
If by choosing she will be
Uncluttered by restraint to paint a stroke of brilliant light
Across a night in need of such
For out the darkness
Blushes paths untaken
Words unspoken
Exits formed of threads being woven by hands which built
Perhaps unknowing
This dim and dreamless dark enclosure
To unravel walls well fabricated
But not from necessity here created
A farce are they
By motion shattered with ease
Poor creature you are not caged
You are not clipped as birds with wings
You are not held within these
As always you are liberated
And have been since when first created
Birthed unclothed and unashamed
Untold untrained and untamed
To build grander things than tombs in which to cower from a world of tombs
A world of rooms
A world of flowers wilted in walls built
By hands not meant for such doom
By eyes fused with colors unreflected without others
Arise to face these juggernaut walls
And find them weak
Made to fall
Spend those finely sculpted hands on other tasks of greater chance and higher call
Lit from a fist thrown firm beneath the tired chest of these apparitions
Move and live and love
And in so doing be the destroyer
Of your saddened heart’s enclosure
For Rising
Look to the clouds
Leave the ground
Take your place above the earth
Nothing here can hold you down
You were made to take the wing
Enlist the breeze
Find release
Take your place above the earth
See your purpose from the air
Put your faith in better things
Just as the birds defy the dirt
And are not afraid to fall
You must climb beyond this hurt
You must move beyond these walls
Nothing here can hold you down
You were made to take the wing
See your purpose from the air
Place your faith in better things
If Skin Is A Cell
If skin is a cell
Then bodies are prisons
If mind is a hell
Then nightmares are demons
If life is a stage
Then death is our curtains
If love is a game
Then rules are uncertain
If eyes are a frame
Then windows are tinted
If time is a father
Then mine is abusive
If skin is a cell
Then I need pardon
If love never fails
Then this is my bargain
Wrapped Around
Spinning
Turning
Twisting
Burning
Tangled up and gently floating
Bound with painted wires holding
Wound around and threaded closely
Deep within this presence ghostly
Chosen
Taken
Open
Wakened
Knit with fingers interwoven
Touched by warmth from hearts unfrozen
Lit by flames that flicker brightly
Grasping until held so tightly
Wrapped around and in between
You cover every part of me
As if the lines upon my frame
Were formed to pull you back again
To ravel here our kindred souls
Till which is which we cannot know
My Heart Doesn’t Break
My heart doesn’t break
It shatters and splinters
It freezes and cracks
Like the coldest of winters
It melts into liquid
It trickles and runs
It heads for the sea
Where it waits for the sun
My heart doesn’t break
It fills up the oceans
It turns and it changes
Like innate emotions
Till sunlight assaults it
And heats it to vapor
It rains down like words
On the surface of paper
My heart doesn’t break
It shrinks into pen strokes
It morphs into art
Like things that we invoke
It comes out in poems
Or things that I do
I gather the pieces
And send them to you
Chrysalis
Woven of my visions
Beautiful incisions
Strands of separation
Threaded over me
Darken my surroundings
Closing in around me
Motionless suspended
Waiting for release
Chosen for entombing
Frozen in cocooning
suffocating slowly
Conscious of the space
Every fiber changing
Figure rearranging
Twisting through my framing
Captive by embrace
Patient for the broken
Remnants of this coffin
Shed on wings arising
Lead me into light
Chrysalis rebirth these
Eyes for only earthly
Wake me as a new thing
Wake me when it’s time
Forming ressurection
Lifted in perfection
Shatter these restrictions
Bring me wings to fly
Far beyond the surface
Higher to my purpose
Change us and rebirth us
Take us to the sky
Hands As Hearts
With hands as hearts
Across the gulf
In silence marks
The state of us
For words un-spoke
A phantom touch
Our feelings wrote
With shapes and such
With hands as hearts
By fingers made
In times apart
Can speak and say
This passing chance
I take at risk
To steal your glance
And show you this
With hands as hearts
Expressions drawn
In resolution
Hushed and calm
For distant eyes
And captive views
A thought implied
That “I love you”
Star Namers
Warm in the summer
Like skies we were under
At night on the trunk of my car
Uncharted spaces
And strange constellations
Dance to a worn out guitar
Down to the clearing
Where ghosts circle softly
Tell us your stories
In wind-twisted rhyme
Wrapped up in covers
Like strange little monsters
I will steal your heart
If you will steal mine
Fragrance of rain
From the clouds rolling in
Hair down and hearts on our sleeves
we’ve been the storm
Since the day we were born
We come and we go with the breeze
Capture the moonlight
In love-thirsty silence
Hold it for ransom
In passionate stares
Pick out a star
And we’ll say that it’s ours
Then vanish at dawn
Like a vapor of air
When Away
Taken for the thought of being far
Still asleep beneath the stars
Earth is not so very large
Not as big as, say, my heart
Spoken in the darkness for a thought
How my love for you is not
Regulated by the mile
But is free within my heart
They could fire you away into orbit
They could send you out beyond the galaxy
That could never ever change for a moment
That my love for you is bigger than these
When away
I will keep you here with me
In a way
You can never truly leave
When I say
That my love for you is strong
What I mean
Is that it’s everywhere you go
And I know that you can’t hear the things I say
Or see the lines I’m writing on this page
I know that you may wonder if I’ve changed
But I will always love you when away
Looking Up
Make faces at the lemons
Life provides for flavoring
Don’t cry for broken wishes
Life is full of better things
You and I were made for dancing
Let the rhythm lead you on
I know it isn’t easy
But it’s worth another song
Don’t stop looking up
Pinky promise you will smile tonight
Lady you’ve cried enough
Everything will be alright
We have so much more to do
So much to be thankful for
So I’m going to smile for you
Knowing that I love you more
Stop swinging punches darling
No one is attacking you
Everyone loves you so much
Don’t say you don’t know it’s true
Patience is more than virtue
Peace is just a choice you make
Choose the best that you can do
Do the best for heaven’s sake
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