Your tongue sits poised
Against your teeth
Hungry for
Your chance to speak
And what they share
Is whisked aside
To be devoured
By your pride
Their only voice
Is stolen thusly
With your reply
Made loudly, brusquely
Their unclad soul
Eviscerated
By the careless words
You’ve just conflated
A living aphrodisiac
An emotional kleptomaniac
Who renders most insomniacs
Once present in their mind
The kind of love you dream about
But mostly cry and scream about
The kind you feel supreme about
Because it’s hard to find
So as all others salivate
Over your lovely profligate
Your standards slowly dissipate
For your ego’s struck you blind
Yet once the fire quells to embers
It’s harder for you to remember
What’s between you, save their splendor
And your moments spent supine
One day you may still conquer
And lounge within your keep
But today you’re just a bed
For a child who’s gone to sleep
You could make the products
That no one can live without
But today you search for patience
When your little tyrant pouts
You could find the cure
For the deadliest disease
But today you struggle to keep up
While walking on your knees
Your focus on the dividends
Will quickly be diverted
When almost every moment
Is a crisis you’ve averted
For the magic of a giggle
And the sunshine of a face
Or a little grasping hand
Will become your happy place
No matter how we try to cleave
To the lessons of our masters
Change is unavoidable
As sometimes is disaster
Those interwoven wisdoms
Wrapped so tightly ’round with care
Can be snatched apart by life
And after many years, threadbare
So cling tightly to the swatches
That can stand the test of time
For that is what can warm you
When you’re moving past your prime
Begin to weave your wisdom
As soon as it’s attained
And through the grace of time itself
Perhaps it shall sustain
Many thought him a miscreant
With hair well past his shoulders
His demeanor always casual
His integrity much bolder
He possessed the musculature
Of a fighter close to winning
Yet he never seemed surprised
When pushed back to the beginning
He walked with such a calm
It betrayed his warring mind
Funny that so many feared
A man unsaturnine
The deep lines laid upon him
Surely spoke of his exhaustion
Still his peaceful glide did not turn back
Those who would accost him
We’ve lost his joyful wisdom
And unprecedented patience
An ever gleaming mirror
Of the dangers of complacence
Named before
Names had existed
Forms born forth
But soul resisted
Restless stirring
In bone cages
The wrong of flesh
Imploring rages
The spirit bucks
This blood and skin
The burn of hate
The bite of sin
For goodness
Soul has been designed
But mortals
Cannot house divine
Touch my head my love
It swims with worry and unmet potential
Yet still grows the most beautiful dreams
Touch my lips my love
They are stained with the words I regret having said
Yet still smile at the beauty in the world
Touch my cheeks my love
They are so often wet with tears,they have adapted to sponges
Yet still turn red at the slightest compliment
Touch my neck my love
It is often rigid with stress and worry
Yet still shivers at the trace of fingers
Touch my arms my love
They are carrying a load they never expected, straining beneath
Yet still accepts the load of others
Touch my stomach my love
It is full of knots from even the smallest daily interactions
Yet still yearns for the flapping of butterflies
Touch my back my love
It is cast starkly with the shadows of my past
Yet still loves the fresh air upon it
Touch my legs my love
They are always wanting to run to better things but never fail to buckle instead
Yet they still stand strongly in the face of danger
Touch me with forgiveness and adeptness
Touch me with understanding and desire
Touch me with your whole heart
And we can be boundless
Many become somber
For this sanguine time of year
Be it money woes
Or mistletoes
There are many things to fear
Once the bells start jingling
And the gifts have been afforded
The baking smells
And family hells
Your mind can turn quite morbid
You plaster on a smile
And recite your season’s greetings
And the bits of joy
That do deploy
Are at best mild and fleeting
So add rum to the egg nog
And wrap those presents tight
And hope and pray
This special day
Won’t break into a fight
I see the subtle movement
In the corners of your mouth
if you’re not very careful
A mumble may spill out
I’ve been prying now for hours
Or at least for 5 whole minutes
But it’s terribly one-sided
I’m not sure you’re even in it
A nod if you could call it that
Escaped you once or twice
And then at last a grunt emits
Now see wasn’t that nice?
I know you thought that sitting here
Would keep you well occluded
But I’m one of those annoying types
Who insists are all included
Don’t get me wrong if you shut down
I’ll quickly say goodbye
But if you leave the door ajar
I’ll try and try and try
I don’t leave people all alone
‘Cause they don’t know where to start
I’d rather talk until I’m blue
Than to see you feel apart
So I’ll dig into my crazy facts
And my poor attempts at comedy
Jut to draw you in and pull you out
And create a little harmony
A gift among men
With his prominent jaw
It’s natural that
You are stricken with awe
With arms that no chisel
Could replicate
The swoon overtakes you
It just won’t abate
His eyes seem to set fire
To your deepest parts
He’s captured your soul
He’s conquered your heart
As you stand agape
All else nearby shrinks
For now he’s your God
Or so he thinks
The Mewriginal 