Only the sheltered mind
Can see things differently.
Push the grandfather clock over,
Must we shed our secrets to the ones we trust.
Words can’t conceive without lust
You can take it away,
But you can’t breath it.
It’s part of who I am.
Speak in tongues to understand.
Put your lips against your hand.
Passage to endless mercy
Sounds so innocent,
But it kills.
There is always a cure.
Must I speak it without her.
Seems so bleak
And weeks go by
And I weep and I cry
to week to speak
will I die…
but rhythms have lulled
my heart beating cold
answers for questions
go untold.
Endless incantations
Soon grow old
With tabulated memories
Dripping, onto this headstone
Clouds surrounding the cold
And unending earth above me.
Dirt giving birth with my
Blood for its honey.
I am not this earthling
I drink rivers
As I travel while circling
I know stars like quasars
That won’t hurt me.
Cairo takes envy to living,
But I can shower with oceans
Around sea
Still I cannot be.
Without her.
And now I live without me.
