Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Tonight

I wrote this a long while ago . . .I didnt think it was very good. I realise now at least it was true

Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I can write of heart break
Tear dashed vodka
And black and white scenes
Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I can write that your kisses tasted
Of smoke and lies
Or tell of pain so great
I can’t stand upright anymore
Tonight I can write the saddest lines
Write of unrequited fire
And how I turned to ash
Of how you looked at me like I wasn’t there
Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I can write of moonlight
And curse the stars
Even write about how I threw that cd out
Stupid lyrics make my eardrums bleed
Tonight I can write the saddest lines
Write that I am tired and I wanted this to work
just this once
Whimsical wishes of a long gone  little child
Maybe even set down the words of whispered prayers
Confess how i entreated heaven
prayed to be allowed
to keep you
to name you mine
Tonight I could write the saddest lines
But I won't
I can write it all
but nothing would change
nothing at all
So 
I go to bed on white sheets
The tragedy of this fledgling  love
Written inside my skin
Soporific poetry
No one will ever see

for you

More than the collection of these seconds
More than the warm hiss of these words
More than the pure white of this paper
More than the ink I mark it with
More than the rhythm of this language
More than the alphabet I string
More than the language I steal them from
More than the fertility of my mind
More than the infinities of my imagination
More than this audacity
To call this drivel poetry
More than all the words I have ever read
More than the force that moves in me
Is the potential for ecstasy
Every time that you touch me…

Creation

I am but a chaos of words
A swirl of spark
In a swathe of dark
Thoughts unbidden
Stories festering
Sensations shadowed
And I gaze into tomorrows
Of unfettered unfurling
Someday to scatter
But a dissolution
A slow osmosis
Until you speak me into a sentence
Until your voice gives me sound
Until the music of my name entered your mouth
Like verses of summoning
You demand me to be
I am the force of your intention
Suddenly the weight of the skin that
Your fingers touch
The silken fall of fragrance
Your arms encircle
Hold fast
Speak slow
Lest all I am be ended
Tether me to you
And my possibility can be