In the morning I watch you wake
To shine like the Sun
Echoes of last night’s dreams
The morning left undone
To begin this brand new day.
Your skin is soft as morning air
Your limbs will move at last
as sunlight tangles in your hair
and sets afire the dust
I wish that I could stay
Watching you wake is like watching life
Return after Spring
A world filled with invisible warmth
Golden, & forever green
If I could lie there, & all day breathe you in
I would lie there
Comforted
If I could hold you beneath my arms, & waste the pressing hours
I would hold you
If I could kiss your million smiles
I would be fulfilled
Yet emptiness confounds these tears
When distance is revealed
What happened, my gentle love
That you and I should part?
How can something, new as dawn
So quickly, strangely wilt?
What walls have we let circumstance
Build here between us?
How can we, so close today
Be altogether distant?
I want to take an axe
And chop away these hours
I’d gladly smash the clock
And set the house on fire
If I could stop the swamp
From drowning all I want -
All I want is you -
To watch you slowly wake
Today. Right now. Forever.
Pressed up close
For Heaven’s sake
Bones wrapped around bones
Heaving in your breaths
Your patch alive with dew
Going, going, gone
One night yet
A thousand deaths
- Two lives -
Unrepressed
Joined by silent sadness
where tears know joy nor pain
Where hearts are clouds
And eyes are suns
Washed with morning rain
I leave my ghost across the sheets
Where yesterday I lay
And head out across the mundane streets
Spreading out decay
To murder all I love the most
In the brightness of the day.