nothing

we hold on to our pain –
sometimes the only thing we feel –
scared to let it go,
afraid of – nothing…
 
empty –
a vessel of capability,
unfilled;
hands reaching for intention,
unrecognized…
 
so cold – the absence
of light;
no darkness more deep
than feeling all alone.
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becoming Jericho

oh my duplicitous Pygmalion!
while you were sleeping,
i was years away…
 
… trapped,
as you would say –
contained within my pre-assembled tomb of ambiguity.
but there is where i find –
i,
my – me…
 
and while you walk in circles
around my truth,
expecting walls of nonchalance to crumble,
i smile –
free of your contagious animosity…
 
how simply –
archaic!
your words,
so fervent in their request to be my savior –
however,
your eyes do not invite –
and your clinched fists can never hold these trembling hands…
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more than necessary

i enjoy you –
as much as great,
as deep as sky…
 
i drink you in,
submerge myself
in your smile –
lose my way,
in the deepness of your eyes!
 
time stands still,
when i’m with you –
reality redefined –
you speak my name,
and worlds collide…
 
how can i sleep,
dare close my eyes and find you gone when waking?
this fragile heart would surely break
if suddenly alone,
detached…
 
without you,
i would simply cease to be…
 
greater than want,
you are,
so much more than necessary!
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on dying…

into this fragile body –
we are poured –
un-rippled –
as light spilling through a window.
 
given life –
we all too soon –
take for granted.
 
marvelous,
don’t you think –
the awesome act of –
living?
 
it’s relevance,
accentuated by
the alternative!
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is – diminished

how can you –
undo –
your – me?
remake –
your was?
how do you –
re-become?
 
ostentatious as – I am,
Pompous as conceit –
we suffocate our – could be;
hold captive in chains – our should…
 
oh so sad,
don’t you think,
the sound of regret?
footsteps down an empty street –
un-prayed prayers –
and paramount to these,
the deafening silence of is,
surreptitiously diminished to not!
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  the possibility of

 

and there –

on the horizon –

setting sun…

 


did you make a difference today?

did you color outside the lines?


did you disallow the urge to follow cadence?

march instead to the beat of your own drum?

 


i find it oh so intriguing the way sunlight captures day,

holds it – indisposed,

then sets it free…

 


and once again nightfall.

prelude to the possibility of –

(another day of) anything,

 


or – nothing…

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tease

flimsy as maybe –
unstable as if –
your promise floats above me,
just out of reach…
 
perhaps you feel the effort
more important than the feel,
suppose – more necessary than real.
 
intentions – undefined –
your non-touch
un-opens me.
while you roam effortlessly from your dreams,
you keep me tightly clasped –
to mine…
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breath

that which you are –
intrigues me –
the depth of your eyes,
a vortex that pulls me in –
the warmth of your smile enlightens me…
 
wherever i go –
you go –
for i carry you in my heart.
 
irreplaceable as light –
delight more grand than sound
to one who cannot hear –
i keep you near,
cornerstone of every dream…
 
more than – just enough,
intrusive as – is –
merely hearing your voice throws chaos to the wind –
and when we touch –
my entire existence bends!
 
you are the air –
mere breath i long to breathe!
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abandoned

i lose my way –
inside the space –
between my hello,
and your goodbye…
 
time stands still.
reality – redefined.
 
i lose my way –
in the maze of your smile.
wonder,
as i wander,
how can such beauty coexist,
with so much pain –
contained,
within the enigma – of you…
 
and as i make my way
across the broken surface of your (un)intention,
i recognize the jagged edge of your sorrow.
stumble on the uneven terrain,
of your silent – disregard…
 
questions,
i have.
opportunity for you to abrogate – suppose.
yet truth,
you do not choose.
and inasmuch as dark
does not consume the light,
your conviction does not make the wrong of your abandon,
even
remotely
right…
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thawing

working through the pain that has become my life.
stepping carefully on the thin ice of truth,
fragile –
cold.
 
so hard to strip away the shell –
layer upon layer,
so hard to face the lies –
confront the fears.
 
alone –
i stand – vulnerable, insecure,
afraid.
alone –
i fall upon myself – weak,
unable to face the reality of –
honesty!
 
suddenly you appear – strength –
holding in your hand –
a single – match.
 
what will you do with all the power?
confused –
anxious –
i watch you start the fire –
feel the heat –
feel the ice melting…
 
exposed –
unrestrained –
i give away all doubt –
throw caution to the very wind that feeds the flame…
 
i let my life melt into yours –
forgetting all the pain –
all the burns and scars of hurt –
you cover me
a desert –
 
for the first time –
feeling rain!
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