I feel you as a wave of deepest pain And you and I crash forcefully on shores Of midnight islands; sometimes summer rain And other times the icy tide takes o’er. The heat pounds down in fire and boiling blood Touching mountains, towers, rivers full. The ice then hisses…
Where goes the pain that flows in rivers full Of anguish down the mountainside of flesh Carrying the crushed and broken hulls Of ships that sailed once between the breasts? The pain, the blackest soot of washed out fires Muddies rivers deep, so much flows out. Is the water black…
The light of stars is burning high above; So faint, they shimmer far beyond my reach. I cannot fathom universal love No not like this; not as I here beseech The love abiding far beyond them hear My plea for hope in darkness that persists. The void between us stretches.…
It doesn’t matter now which way I take For all my paths are clear before your eyes. You know my inner thoughts and for your sake I put to death my sin. You bid me rise. And as I grow in form to be like you As each day…
My expectations conquer caution thus: They breed the “musts” and “should have beens” and I Can feel “perfection” overtaking trust. My day too often starts out on a lie And by the end I feel beat down and tired, Unable to feel joy in every day And in the little…
My eyes have seen the glory of the stars Shining in the corners of your smile. They see the growing solar flare you are That I have longed to cradle for awhile. A supernova, fire in your veins Compacted into star stuff two feet tall And glorious as nebulae. I…
I took the hope you offered, clenched in fists Still dried with blood and tears and without trust. No matter how I walked, each step was risk Without the father I had reckoned just. Forward and still forward into night So irretrievably the past pressed in; My heart I'…
As an apple tree Or a young stag Is my lover. Finest and loveliest; Warrior and king. In the night I sought him On my bed I longed for him Until my desire roused me to walk the city But I found him not. In the watches of the night…