What a step on the road may herald

What words do I speak when all words turn about and about to face towards you
like power lines running beneath the surface carrying me forwards
Dying on the vine for the sound of a voice
But choose and choose again,
You are no passing indulgence or forward desire but vital to all
Just a pill and a show and a soul laid bare
Found alive, at the start, at the end
Of long journeys beginning

Enter the fray

I’m having this problem where I can’t write because I’m happy. An envious problem to have but it makes all this noise just a bit harder to pull to signifier. Because the well of black feeling erases under the thought of you. And plans for the long term slam into place like bank vaults but it’ll be a minute before they’ll open. No swift thing, no arrow, no soon over thing. Instead a juggernaut just getting started, focused on an us. But still, my words spill out, only into your ears and not for the wide. I’d sing you aloud and scream to the sky. Reminding the deep blue of times gone by when they were dust and stars together and they were being fed up with the dawn. We are bound and bound by choose and choice and the hard truth a hand in hand, facing a future side by side

7 words to make you fall in love v. 3

I will listen and try to understand
I have health insurance, I’ll add you.
Journey begins with my love of you
I’ll keep you safe while you fly
I understand your desires. We’ll get there.
A book read, a song sung. You.

Arpeggios string by string

The notes wash over
This collection of sounds
Becoming music
Almost by chance
Almost
This series of steps
This waiting
This finding
This being
This burning
Soft consonants and sonorous tone
Set me aflame
Choice by choice
Her and her and her
Set us free
Fly together
Sweet song

The unbearable weight of knowing

This calm after storm
Broken response leads to feast of life
Halted for empty
A frenzy of connection
A fantasy
This shifting earth falls away
The smell of death
On swift ozone wings
The shift begs permission
Awaits the will to act
Unfettered
Fear and hopeless
Wage war in the heart
Last fade before
Snuffed light

A blade needs a battle

I’m a prize fighter bent on destruction
Last prize in a fight I’ve been fighting my whole life
Fight for a soul to be happy
But not my own
That may be beyond my power
But this I can do
Always in your corner
Looking for your joy
Might not be with me
But it doesn’t matter
Some wars must be fought
For the ones in our hearts

The things I know

I’ll sing you a song
Of all the future minutes and mistakes
Of triumphs and tragedy
But never will I leave you

I’ll write you a story
Of all things passion and pain
Of fantasy and fact
But never will I break you

I’ll speak you a poem
Of all words wild and simple
Of truth and despair
But never will you doubt

I would make a world
With us at the center
And rise each day
Certain of your heart
But never for granted
I’ll earn you anew
Love is not only a feeling
It is a action
A choice

And I’ve made mine

Shift light explodes through the cracks

This is a broken world
But you are not broken

This is a broken world
But you are not broken

This
Is
A
Broken
World
But you are not broken

This is a broken world
But you
Are not
Broken

This is a broken world
But
You are
Not broken

This is a broken
World
But
You
Are
Not
Broken

The corvid and the dove

My heart soars
Crafting clouds to carry word
Of my deeds

Deep below my mind prepares the way
A place
A home
A sanctuary
What is possible
When dream is made manifest
Time unlocks all

Pilgrimage

Plans bury themselves like roots deep in my bones
Words fragment on my tongue and fingertips
Unwritten
Unsaid
Each slow turn of the wheel
Marking passage to the possible
All my hopes burn like wildfire
Unchecked in a mind enveloped in love
I wait as one who having embarked on a long journey
sees the city of his heart on the horizon
And approaches
Steady
Knowing full well
And with light heart
That arrival means the beginning
Of our journey together