sweet dreams

did you nod off?

he asks,

as if she would answer

from all these miles.

his love reaches

to her bedside,

a mind cast beside her.

this shared moon shines

passionate lunar kisses to her face.

peace he finds there

and his heart is glad,

for though she is far

she and he

are always near.

Choice

This is where my heart is

This is where I’m home

This is where the bridge is

Between spirits here and there

I stand here and look at you

Pride and love and joy

The life you bring

To this once lonely man

A gift from God

And I turn and look forward

Pride and love and joy

The life you bring

To this once lonely man

A gift from God

This is where the bridge is

Joining lives and loves

Across a wide expanse

Shared across us all

I stand solid for you as one

No choice of life is needed

My greatest gifts of all

You are where my heart is

You are where I’m home 

Catch Me

Stepping out onto the platform

No net

The gravity hits me

Faith

God, I pray

I place myself into your care

That you have placed me here

With all intentions

To make good in this world

Your servant

And then reticence

Watching the fluid motion

Back then forth

Knowing I must

For living exists there.

Afraid of the unknown

From the comfort of the staid

I leap into the sky

This non-acrobat

Releasing to all

Catch me I breathe

I have passed my trust to you.

Holy Days

Stuck within the die

Rattled

Never certain

The numbers will shake

To where?

Random dots

Dark on light

Revealed to luck

Or misfortune

Encapsulated

Escape

Choose a number

Push aside a pip

          Pass to the table

                    Stuck within a bottle

                    Engaged

                    Never certain

                    Solace found in forget

                    To where?

                    Random thoughts

                    Memories in light

                    That was good

                    Now misfortune

                    Self loathing

                    Escape

                    Choose your life

                    Push aside the glass

                              Pass to the table

                                        Stuck within this pipe

                                        Suppressed

                                        Never certain

                                        Lost in a haze

                                        To where?

                                        Random pain

                                        Lost light in dark

                                        Fond memory

                                        Messed fortune

                                        Emasculated

                                        Escape

                                        Reveal the good

                                        Set aside the unnatural

                                        And pass to the table

So rise from the death in your life

Stand upon this tableau and reveal

The truth of our existence

The existential normal needs your faith

And the faith of all humanity

Your resurrection an example to us all

Who suffer such personal profound pain

This is not a religious experience

This is your pious duty to you

That integral piece of a communal kind

To show the holiest of days

Is the day we become together wholly

Death Sentence

Red coats forward
Willingly, begrudging acceptance
A marched straight line
The owners taking aim
From safety of the blind
Obedience to the shareholders
Coerced by needless necessity
Societally impressed, marketed
To the soul ragged drones
Hungered and destitute.
Reasoned then we volunteer
Wracking our bodies
Numbing our minds
For existence of what
For what?
Ten minutes of play with our children.
The deteriorating love of our spouse.
We the artists martyred
By our choices
To be punks in the machines
For bad food and obesity
For a speedy rush
To a small piece of real estate
Ad nauseous
A resting place
The reward
For what?
Time eternal ethereal waits
It can be stopped
And memory made

Identity Implicit

Over and over

Again and again and again

Misunderstood this love

Misunderstood

I am not here to requisition you

A mere commodity

One cannot requisition they who are truly free

I wish only to enable

A partnership of equals

And it stuck

Suddenly unchained

Burdens from the past

Those men and women who would merely own

Selfishly possessive of

This thing you offer

This thing I offer

Gone

Free to embrace

For love and laughter

For commerce and art

We are the truly blessed

But we know that now

Of course we do

I wonder what took it all so long

That God would see us learn

Of our own free will

To suffer and squander

Then reward

You understand now it is said

Be the one you two are meant to be

This force of nature

This example to all

Top billing and blessed

Mist

I watched your picture today

Looking intently into your eyes

Willing me there

Am I

Missed

At least I hoped I was

Cause I saw joy there

And sadness there

Known it was all for another

Missed

We wish for presence

I do

And this I shall

Confined by memories

Missed

The swell overwhelms

A soul so silent

What can will be

Fortunate distant unknown

In the mist