Wait here with me a while, in silence Speak only with eyes that cannot lie Let joy extend its way up your spine Peace make a home alongside mine Stay here with me a while, in love Speak only with hands that cannot lie Let joy wrap itself around your heart Peace still the stormyContinue reading “A While”
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Paper Cranes
I hang my hope on the wings of wild paper cranes. Dancing regally in the wailing white winter snow. I pray to the gods of the forsaken and the unbelievers. Living in a darkened land of black and white desolation. I bend my tired fingers around the folds of a thousand words. Bringing you backContinue reading “Paper Cranes”
Castaway
I traced the skin of your back like an explorer charting a map a beautiful new blue ocean. Where I discovered an island fitting in the palm of my hand it became home to me. In endless hours of the night when your heart beat drums a new life raft next to me
Orphan (Revised)
In a small waterfront bar in the old Cape of Good Hope, a place created by the gods for lost souls and orphans, we drank warm melancholy cocktails out of old bottles wrapped in cheap brown paper bags to hide our sin when your soul unexpectedly spilled in from the cold dark rain. A thousandContinue reading “Orphan (Revised)”
The Book of Emotions
The exhale of your sigh ran the breadth of the desert creating a wind to carry gold, yellow and copper pieces of sand that whipped the letters from the book of emotions you dropped at the oasis of alchemy and blew them over my cheeks in words of love and vulnerability where I lay inContinue reading “The Book of Emotions”
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