Sometimes
There is a whisper
Under the layers of nature
Or life
It has traveled so far
And is nearly lost
But I’ve heard it
Weaving itself so tight
To my ear
Up against the drum
And yet
It remains a whisper
Its soothing syllables
Reach inside
Like missing parts
Returned
The inflection of my soul
The round sounds of wholeness
I am awakened
From the terrible dream
That you have gone
Blown by the wind
The shuddering grass
Rocks with its kin
Like a turbulent mass
Limbs wave about
Victims of the gale
And without a doubt
Some may not prevail
The air in its whipping
Has no sense of goodwill
the limbs lose their gripping
Their fate now fulfilled
The clouds swiftly race
Across the drab sky
Hopefully chased
By a future more dry
In the grander scheme
It seems so very light
A friendly sort of greeting
Or a way to say goodnight
Yet upon it legends have been built
And evil curses broken
A closeness that fills in the words
Our mouths have never spoken
It can fill you so complete
While shedding not a thread
It can set a’spinnin
The most level of all heads
So wield your kiss with caution
Tread lightly with your lips
For it can bring a consequence
For which we’re unequipped
The cracks are filled with daylight
The curtains are no match
I feel the fatigue upon me
But the sleep won’t seem to catch
I’m dreaming now, eyes open
A story unsurpassed
But if I find my slumber
I’m not sure it could last
So now within a struggle
‘Twixt dreams and precious sleep
My eyes grow ever heavy
And I hope my dream will keep
With only closed eyes
And fingertips
He etches my face
Upon the windows glass
I stare from it
As if seeing something precious
A deep delight in the eyes
A sly grin ready to burst
With teeth
The brows are sensually relaxed
With a confidence
A knowing
My hair cascades just so
Around my face
Feigning a shyness
However my beaming cheeks
Betray the soft tendrils
Two tight apples
of unhidden joy
As he turns to me
Opening his eyes
His near sighing exhale
Dissolves into a smile
That forms like a reflex
I feel my face fall
Into formation
With his creation
When our eyes meet
She calls her woes up to the stars
And hopes that they will listen
There is promise in their lustre
And a peace in how they glisten
She sheds her tears in moonlight
For there they seem to glow
And as it wanes o’er coming days
Her sorrows likewise go
She whispers her dark secrets
To the planets she implores
Perhaps the power of their names
Is one that can restore
She makes her wish in darkness
For that is when it’s needed
Delivered to the heavens
So in the light of day it’s heeded
Cruel winds now toss me
so randomly I fly
Now my world has lost me
and barely blinked an eye
Amidst the gales I tumble
My memories now grow thin
And still my stomach rumbles
for all I could have been
The veins that once had fed me
are growing hard and brittle
I once wore proud my envy
but the remnants left are little
All has been released now
My purpose, shine, and grip
I guess that time is just how
I started on this trip
The calm within my stasis
made me believe in safety
but I cannot escape this
I have stopped trying lately
The things I can see from here
have frightened and surprised me
As I travel, pushing through fear
The currents hypnotize me
I shuddered in the gusty wind
where I once spent all my nights
and free is how my time will end
as I succumb in flight
That smile of coy wanting
Envelops me again within your essence
A climbing inner warmth
To ease away all that is not you
The spilled ink of rapture
To blot out all but us
To lock our eyes
And urge sweet giggles
Like the trickling drops
of an overflowing fountain
Each move we make
Clinging to the other’s
Like a shadow
And we are that
Shadows
Always connected
Longing to rejoin within the perfect light
The slight brush of a cheek
The widening, trusting pupil
It’s too late to recoil
The shields I’ve built are futile
A calm within each breath
That passes through their lips
A journey could be started
With each and every kiss
To say that I’m enamored
Would not even start
To tell of the true magnitude
Their energy imparts
Only dreams now could imagine
How our colors swirl and blend
And the galaxy created
By the spangled path we wend
