Poetry
In You
2021-4-30
You speak of God
in rev'rent contemplation
in old longings of wounds
You recite awe
in wisdom reciprocal
in beauties transcendent
You breathe vast life
in each falling autumn leaf
in kind healing of arms
You preach of love
in scarcities bountiful
in shared eternity
You speak of God
in borne celestial trust
in small echos of You
Resolute Uncharted Surrender
2021-4-28
I ventured, then,
into my own frontier,
a wilderness unfamiliar
where time wove fingers not,
but the longing lingered
in every step among the trees
- in every echo of your warmth.
Polaris and the Cephei Siblings
2021-4-20
When you fell into my sky,
I saw you with the same heart
- but knew you without clarity,
loved you without focus.
You mesmerized my being,
a beautiful spark to naked eyes
- but I knew you slightly then,
not so infinite as you are.
I thought you unmoving,
as I whirled through each night
- but you are not Polaris,
nor even Gamma Cephei.
You are every succession,
every drifting constellation
- each story behind your wisdom,
hard-earned in pain and joy.
When you fell into my sky,
I saw you with the same heart
- but not so honestly then,
as this universe you become.
The Sun - The Moon
2021-3-21
Every ineffable darkness
weaving these together.
Feeling toes washed clean
in another's kind hands.
Dull sound of your voices
nestled amidst every thought.
Paths of your lives,
savored beside my own.
Teachings of regret.
Wounds of mistakes.
Knowing oneself,
equal in part.
Lines betwixt our palms.
Scars older than memory.
Whimsy of midnight
dancing in laughter.
Farewell kisses.
Wept hellos.
Disastrous reverence
burying this truth:
I am the sun,
I am the moon,
and I am every mystery
proffered from their shadows.
Into Comfort
2021-3-10
Acquiesce to delight,
to each fleeting moment;
in acclimation,
fall not apart,
but passionately
into comfort.
Together In Need
2021-2-18
lonesome freckle
naked night sky
angel beheld
powerless to pride
generous hands
walled all around
Boreal cheeks
liberty-bound
Olive Tree of Vouves
2020-12-25
We all,
inexorably bound,
cannot remain forever as we are,
lest we wilt in harvest.
Atonement in Equity
2020-7-10
The wielder of greatest power,
in any given relationship,
is always most self-starved for forgiveness;
for, by power's very nature,
a grip on its greater portion
controls both its disparity
and the path to atonement in equity.
You Don't Choose the Message of Your Actions
2020-6-13
When the form you wear
embodies not the shape of your heart
but rather a pattern of harm,
then strip it from you
- let it burn away;
but,
should you hold that emblem close,
you'll find you bear it
in just and inevitable shame.
Threshold to Intimacy
2020-1-14
When you speak my name,
do you breathe who I am?
How long I have ached,
down my road of years;
Can your lips move the same,
as delight in my hands?
when my heart doth quake,
who regards my fears?