Love

  • Poem – “All That Came Before” – 7/4/2025

    Connect me back toyour shape, your gravitythat kept me whole,kept me from breakinginto jagged parts.What was beforebecame nothing morethan a memorythat yearns to arrivein the placewhere footstepsare ceremonial.Love’s golden circlehas made itselfto be an imprint of a far,escaping landscapewhere oceans cannotcome through to flood,while faces starewhere sounds don’t dareto interrupt.All that was beforehas been shelved…

    Read more →

  • Poem – “Love Ends in the Rain” – 7/4/2025

    Tears hold fast,wetting the earthin their descensionfrom cloudsbreathed out,crystalline.On the horizon,monochrome is theunformed color,measuring the depravitywith toiling accuracy.I just wanted tonever release the handthat came close,pressing itself uponthe naked sleeve,the heart that meltsupon recallingall it had felt.But puddles are here,surrounding a pairof quivering legs,while I’m merging riverswith oceans, meetingsuch paralyzing reflectionsin the stillness of myself.I’ll…

    Read more →

  • Poem – “Seeing Me Senseless” – 7/4/2025

    You rave onabout what I do,not know whyI’ll end, this way.I’ve grown to seethe patterns of myhelpful ecstasy.You’ve been watchingwith a torch to hold,with words most bold.You’ll judge, even untilGod himself promotes youto be near him,at his side, with no oneto condemn your practices,to breathe scorn overyour faceless tirade.I am evenwith the playing fieldof life,…

    Read more →

  • Poem – “When Failure Fulfills Me” – 7/4/2025

    I recallas I realizethat what I lost,during that fall,was more to receivewhen it awakened meto why I’ve ever breathed,why I’ve ever seenwhat something means.You were thereto see the HellI began to burn in,for when I lost light,I added bloodto build up the flame,after adding tearsthat weren’t enoughto extinguish thisrelentless shame.I am reminiscent,always leaning onthese rosesfor…

    Read more →

  • Poem – “Stones in Circles” – 6/30/2025

    Surrounded. In seclusionfrom the rest of the worldyou’ve grown to detest,whenever it begins to testthe worth of your restraintdown to the last drop,and then up to the top.You retreat upon whenyour flame-engulfed worldseizes an opportunityto cut you open,to let you explorethe depths of what youforever abhor.A secular circumstance,a theme grounded in realityhas been biting your…

    Read more →

  • Poem – “The Wait Won’t Find Us” – 6/30/2025

    Enough timesto be seeing ahead,with one crimethat kept us lookingover our isolated,cold shoulders.We regret the word,the promise we shared,burning bridgesbefore crossing them.We weren’t meant tobe met to be wed,under skies full of itsstorm of sunlight.A glance at a corridor,a sprint down whereall memoires, those oninfamous portraits,was all it took to seethat we couldn’t be.A watered…

    Read more →

  • Poem – “Wounded and Punished” – 6/30/2025

    This fateful scar,one from a woundcaused to get youto find reason,to adopt an excuseto seek its desolate,replenishing meaning.In the dark,you see light,but it is therewhere you’ll begincrying on oneimagined shoulder.Who do you miss,or who would you kissto melt all these sorrowsinto all hopeful,immaculate tomorrows?What can you everreveal to the open?Shed your skin,unveil that whichwasn’t the…

    Read more →

  • Poem – “Before She Wakes Up” – 6/28/2025

    Famous charmof a woman who emitsher light from her flesh,her brazen attractionwhen it is her limbsthrashing around,in naked glory.She sleeps on those sheets,those that I pulled upto her nodding chin,lifting to descendat each sweet breath.This bed, for its sight,without much moreto imagine for,can hold a lover’s hopefor what can continuewhen not one secondever passes, without…

    Read more →

  • Poem – “Care to Caretake” – 6/27/2025

    I’ve left blanketsfor you to smotheryour sun with,because it isn’t bright,it isn’t enough tolive your life with.What is it guidingwhen it is suppressingyour chance to keepyour steps moving?Who is it receivingupon its dim glow?You will be whatit wants you to know.Don’t you want to beall you’ve cared to be,destined as a caretakerto your quieting heart?You’ve…

    Read more →

  • Poem – “Announce Your Absence” – 6/27/2025

    I’ve been missing it,for time has a wayto get me to forgetwhere you’ve left it.The seductive rippleswithin history’s pages,upon oceans that upkeepthe pattern of theirunending waves,I cannot always do it,when you’re not here.Life has its waysto further my approachinto itself, distracting mefrom what I lostalong the way.Am I nothing when I’mliving here, finding outwhen the…

    Read more →

  • Poem – “Our Sun Faltered” – 6/27/2025

    Something else, other thanwhat arrived at our doorstep,had swore at us, has uskneel to their secrecy.Something other than whatwe provided devotion to,brought us close to seeka different kind of worship.To its darkness, to its spacewhere openness is a blanketto soothe those like uswho’ve become lost.Water stirred in our heartsto leak through our eyes,blurred from vain…

    Read more →

  • Poem – “Touch from a Cloud” – 6/26/2025

    She’s come hereto spread silk,to unleash her caress,after her velvet gazenotes the landing.She has arrivedfrom not much furtherthan an inch away.It is where she’ll stayon this newest of dayswhen skin touches down.Close the curtains,keep one light onto see the beckoningglimmer that attractssomeone to speakinto her ear.Bring her downon outspread layers,where bodies melt,where eyes will roamover…

    Read more →