The Choice

It's late
I'm lonely
Though the cat sits in my lap bathing

The day is old
My body is tired
But to sleep feels like admitting
defeat

Guilt over tasks left undone
Stress over tasks left to come -
No matter how I tell myself
I can only exist in the now.

Will I ever stop feeling
Like I'm not measuring up
That I should be doing something more
Even when I've done all I can

This is the hour where
What ifs and has beens
Pick at the soul
Relentless

Should I push myself
To one more task
Or lay down
And hide from daily demons
In the thick blankets of a warm bed?

My Children

I swim in an ocean of sound

Lost in the rise and fall of their voices

Conversations drift in and out

Overlap in my mind and caress the shore

Of consciousness

What a wonder and an honor to hear

The Universe express itself

Individual enlightenments

1000 points of consciousness

I honor their exchange

Rejoice in their thought and emotions shared

My children.

Memories In Silence

Love, sweat, and tears
Hang in the Shadowland
Stain the grave
Where lovers dream

I am a lover
And I dream

I dream of your soft flesh
Warm and smooth
Beneath the Desire
That reaches out for you.

The walls amplify your absence

Your absence
Like the sea
In which pieces of you reside -
Lingering emotion wanting form.

Your voice floats to me
On faded parchment,
Floats like wizened driftwood
Across lonely waves -
Though I fear I forget already
The shapes and textures you spoke.

I call your name
Through the dimensions that divide us

Name the wishes I have for you,
But names and wishes fall dead –
In Silence -
As the heart which beats for you.

Dawn Winked

Dawn winked to me
From the arms
Of midnight

As I stood –
Enraptured,
Watching the Way
of You.

How sweet to remember
The breath, the flow,
the flash of your skin

The way the moist night held you close…

Laughter on eyes and lips
And something I could not explain
Growing.

We breathed,
Damp night air
Becoming day.

A subtle glow…

A Light is born.

Chained

I am bound up, caught up..
Rigid like metal
The tension within…

Here I am hanging
Alone in the Dark,
Here hiding in Shadow
Is me.

But I’m pretty when you look
At me
Smile my smile,
Bear it with grace…

Who could ever know
That I am stuck here -

No freedom
For all this empty space…

A Shadow's Not The Same

I hear you echo

Through the halls

Of time.

I see you standing there -

The ghost of a horizon

On an ever-widening sea

The last lingering note

Of a Soulful symphony

Eyes cannot restrain these tears

No words to heal these wounds..

A moment passes that reminds me of you -

And I am undone

Form cannot remake itself

And vision cannot see

Torn down forever

The moment you sailed on