An Ounce of Love

I can only give him everything I've got.
What else is there?
I'm embracing the Universe.
All it's rings,
orbits,
specs of dust,
thin air,
time,
time,
time.
I am embracing it all.
I am.
I heard once, that if you embrace life,
life will embrace you back in ways you could never imagine.

Maybe some brainstorming
is in order.

I'm watching everything from space.
Time is a single strand, winding, curving, constricting the objects infront of me.
Either whisking them away,
or destroying them
completely.

A hug.


It's what I dream about.
It's what I think of when I think of you.
It's so far away, but so possible.
It's the wish I cast on the star,
and in every blink that wields a tear.

We are so deserving....
but we have to hold our heads high.

You are.
You are.
You are.
You are.
On a solid Rock I stand.

Forever, in a hug.

Licht

I sit in my recessed chair
and I can hear
dissimilar, adult voices
they talk about
how,
when,
and in what they want to be buried
and I think, what an odd
conversation for a room of strangers
in an art class

yellow-orange
orange
red-orange
red

my brain skips thought of him
Max Bemis is yelling at me
"...should be the consistency of icing"
"spread the icing"
"mix the icing"
fill in the shape of the GOLDFISH snack
just so
I tap my paintbrush to the guitars and drums
a cardiac-provoking thump
that moves me
to another heartbeat
somewhere else

red-violet
violet
blue-violet

I make a mistake
...shit.
kneaded eraser
dab here, and here
later tonight... I'll say
'I love you'
to throw it in his face

blue
blue-green
green
yellow-green

then, you
wishes come
not far behind
frustration
tagging along

smiles

I do smile.

...yellow

the color of Sunshine.

pack up, and leave for lunch

Say You Will

late, late night.
what's wrong?
I believe you.
everything's alright.
roaming?... yeah,
I do.
God, your skin...
hold it back and pull it
together, it can be done.
oh.....but your
eyelashes

they
are blinking...

nope. not going to
happen.
so, what's for dinner?

hands...

yours...

roughly gentle...

on my neck...

God bless it, kingdom come.
come rescue me.

She Learned A Way Out

I hadn't noticed
how your eyes had become darker
should I have?

what should have been handled?


was it me?
to give up concern for one's own
happiness for
another's...
man...

I feel it
I felt the Lord begin
to peel off all my skin
and I felt the weight within
reveal the bigger mess
that you
can't
fix

you never know
you know?
I swear, I swear I'll lead me into my home

you'll never know.

Someone Like You

all winter we were carried
we just hurried
it's damn cold
let's get out of here

moon, in my window laughing
laughing at me
are you thinking?
never mind that
that ring you take off
to please your family
it is a silver cluster of pointlessness
all the children it took to make
it, weep now for us
you

i want you to weep
weep until your hands grow cold like mine
weep for lost sleep
once, twice, seven times... for me
who cares?

yeah, me
this ring sits, prettily, heated,
comfortably on my finger
the finger that caught my tears
and saved
your only one
poor timing
i'm gone