it will only get harder from here
can you take it?
do your feet have the tread to spare?
can your bones bear the weight?
can your skin weather the thickening air?
it will only get harder, with the passing time
can your pulse keep you steady?
your eyes look beyond?
your hands, will they quake as the pressure boils over
and will your mind break beneath layers of our words?
it will only get harder
more passionate
exquisite
with each day,
each breath.
is it worth it?
can you take it?
perhaps together
two pulses, four hands
intertwined
can bear the flights of our restless hearts.
together perhaps
we can push
onward

I whisper
words
I cannot say
into the night
a willing
listener
with no lips
to mutter back
no eyes
to look down
no hands
to push away
or hush me
hushed
I whisper
words
into the dark
and leave them
for the
monsters
neath my bed
as in my head
they were
a monstrous
roar
I whisper
tip-toe round
the words
until they’re
strewn through
muted air
mixed with dreams
and nightmares too
leaked out
in nights gone
by
by now
they’ve seeped
into the walls
which echo
not a single
breath
I’ve whispered
words
into the night
and left them
left them
eyes
shut tight

i once was complete
time weathered and scored me
shaped the grooves of my face
and the caverns of my mind
but still, i was whole
then they came
each chipping away the pieces
in a quest to find my heart
or break me in two
I could never tell which
left me jagged
harsh and unstable
then you split me open
so completely
exposing all I had held in
all that was already yours

I miss you most on rainy days
best shared with head to shoulder
hand in hand
the gray days spent
tween coffee cups and written word
more masterful than mine
I miss you on those stormy nights
with thunder in the air
shaking the very stars
and rocking me to sleep
without your arms
it seems the quiet times are when
I miss you more
I long to hear the silence break
with your laugh
shudder at your heartbeat
keeping time with your breath
as my head rests on your chest
yes, I miss you love, on rainy days
and only hope the gentle storms
will blow you back my way
to stay

Under veil of night

and gentle snow

in we crept

with not a glance

from the neon mountains.

The very stars hid in fear

from their glowing stares

as we slipped by

unnoticed.

The sleepless monster soldiers on

never stopping

as it swallows the unsuspecting whole.

But if we can make it here,

can’t we make it

anywhere?

you could fit me so

comfortably in your heart’s

untouched crevices

the sadness echoes
in me
reverberates in the deep
hollow places
you cannot see
but never escapes
my lips sealed tight
as it doubles
and redoubles within
devouring
this exquisite emptiness

you ask me what will be

of us, of you me, in time

in time will changes change as time

turns and can we fill

the spaces tween each tic toc tic

will we have lengths of

melodic phrases

tender embraces

will fluttering lashes erode each our faces

or the tingles and shivers extract with a touch

my love, time will shift

as always it does,

upon shifting will  shift, i you me us,

but i’ll sing you a song with each tic toc tic

my heart in a verse

my head in your hands

I cannot say cannot say what will be

love but love will be

always

was is for thee

Haven’t moved from the couch…
paralyzed by circumstance around me
afraid if i move it will all become too tangible to bear..
back to the days of make-believe
The floor is lethal as lava, melting my whole world…
And the couch is the only place i’m safe

in one moment

the world can stop

the wind ceases

and the oceans lose their tide

in the blink of an eye

the eyes blink away

and disappear

as do you

gravity pulling you in

deeper…further

from your reality..

and with a single beat

that internal drum

snaps you back

to find the world still turning

pulsing around you

within you

life reverberating off your walls of skin

persistent despite your lack of persistence