Three

dreaming through storm raged waves,

shadows froth and swell, rolling high above. 

tossed a lonely soul an age apart from she. 

waking curtain falls, a drab grey upon mine eye.

onward with half a step with half a heart,

a tug inside, so constant 

apart from me, apart are we. 

Sleep a while, i see her dream. 

beauteous in the darkness still, beauty unmatched,

even in spite now of waking frown, there fixed, 

a sadness washing ashore, my warrant my charge. 

she my light, whose smile an angels shamed, 

strive now must I her man, to be to stand. 

foretold no truth, no straight path to yomp.

Down and up, under, between, 

teeth gritted over knife blade, 

rage balled up swallowed down, 

held deep springloaded, white hot

don't touch don't take, do not offend. 

stays my wrath my hideousness.

lasted time now together anew, now all change 

And with me she is my smile 

and she alone.

you will see my dear

sadness, the blanket for those who dare in dreams shadow, dance.
sorrow, adorning outstretched gaze to those we fear to love,
a teardrop poised defiant, locked in shut eyes, for those with heart to ache.
the tapestry a'weave with darkened poison threads,
drag along the floor my dear. forgot.
with anguish now, Art ablaze, newly spun with anger and light.
see all from atop. this our view, terrible acts abound frolic in filth
perfect despair perfect hung up a cross, turning all to dirt
risen in deep waters, romance swathed in fire,
fire to cleanse you'll see my dear, its near now.

Be Strong

Hear me my love, a cry to liven, 

to heighten, its heat a heartbeat, beating for you. 

every dark day I smile on you waking up hope, 

urging it out into pastures fresh and new. 

never cease falter fail will that hand to you stretched, 

a way forward, lifting through and above 

all rotted disease, those lifeless surrounds, 

entities of nothing, paying them no heed. 

new doors to us open, old ones 

bricked up, gone, vanished. 

loves cry from my lips, no question, no token I need, 

only return for me your smile, your heart impassioned

and strong from the strength inside you I see.  

 

Too far

sadness a chalice now pressed to my lips,
the cold touch numbs me softly.
eyes closed I drink, eyes closed I fight the silent
sitting quietly calm,
seas apart now my love from me.
a longing patter, a lightness in me.
as the wings of a trapped butterfly.
aching to soar free.
a beat skipped, lost. the heart confused.
somehow all is plain, a runner up, empty.
for tonight I miss you and you in me.

to keep you

winters misted breath, draws close around my chest and
icy teeth do shudders through my heart send coursing
reddened eye cast down, kicked leaves, dead, so tossed aside.
a blackened twinkle forms, my minds eye darkens.
what horror cold night nearing now, that parallel fear,
through the looking glass lurks, a stony face so close peers at me, broken.
that life across from me, in sad eyes, in tears i see it, rolling down gathering speed,
falling onto open palms, so white in darkness, so alone.
for here you are not. no joy no dawn and time a corpse,
frozen and baron.
this the world painted dark with your departed,
your absent smile no joy no light.
it cannot sing, this world without laughter, upon your lips it trickles,
no eyes a world can match, your sorrow your love your soul there lies,
such beauty never before beheld, my head a buzz so high
my heart in yours kept now, yours in mine, two halves met,
a flame flowering, into the sun the branches stretch,
new heights together entwined and far above the darkness now
a slithering whisper of black, fingers the ground and beckons.
but too loud is our love now, obnoxious, bright.
leaving all behind who doubt deceive to rot in the darkness beneath the mist.

Anything

when rise to anger, thoughts spun dark. a clouded brow cast down
when restless hate shadows empty minutes, hours drip by,
forget not that time away from time, the distant cry
side by side your own, to you, your other.
what lurking grief upon shoulders pushed,
that weight a load to me shared, with eager hands,
to pick and grab, gusto driven with ached heart,
to all ends, the earth's corners no distance,
a sweetness now I know that no task no burden,
for you I will not do.

Whole With she

half of me apart, sensing now, always, that pull, a gap,  

the seething ocean in me now separates my heart to two

the stretching void a gnawing ache, a tarnish on my sky, blue but not right somehow. 

there around me all, green acres plush, turn golden on rocking branches, 

yet all a tainted view to me, without a smile so sweet and eyes deeper than darkest pool,

swallowing me down in a dizzy magic, beyond beauty, they tease me

to every day my picture paints her there, that no part of my life she cannot grace. 

and with every rising moon closer to my arms is she, 

and make a half man right again, whole with she.