Thinking of You

Thoughts of you 
A wounded prism
Bleeding rainbow blood
From skin the colour of acrylic
Water upon water
Wet upon wet
(Random noise;
My pseudo poetry,
Commas and semicolons limping across the verses
In a desolate frequency
Like an empty road echoing;
The silhouettes of silent wheels
The smell of burnt rubber
And the touch of gasoline)
I long to stare at your face that stands stark against the sky
A newborn moon; unblemished
Rolling upon tethered horizons
Like a dime in the dark

O how I ache to be in your arms now
To be your ice and your fire
Your utter despair and open desire
I wish I could hold you
Like ink in my paper palm
Like an unformed word
Like a fleeting thought
I wish I could know how you see me
Am I an anchor that keeps you calm
Or wings that sets you free?
I know I heal as an afterthought
And you are careful in remembrance
And although we have met few times
These moments that pass
This liquid life
Is reshaped by our every touch
For the fire that burns us feels the same
Today, tomorrow, after an eternity again

I remember being
Your dream
When you were wide awake
A flower trapped within sunshine
And I know I am not destiny’s choice
For my voice
That dark tobacco of my baritone
Is neither honey nor nectar
And my eyes that reach out
Through the veiled carcass of some velveteen night
Belongs to shadow and to spectre
But love
Through the shards of slow time
That ebbed our feet away for many days
Now we walk
With our two hearts disguised as one

Part-time Philosophies

The ocean does not speak of sadness
For sadness has no voice that can say
That being empty is like being filled forever
An infinite without a way
And when I with my eyes look out
At a world where each face has a place
I wonder who really wins
If it’s in a circle that everyone does race
True it is tragic that in the end
There is no magic that holds all the cards
For his is the glory of the game
Who plays his joker as ace when it’s hard
And I know in this mesmerizing madness
For the follicle of that forever fame
People play their pieces for practice
Unaware that they will never be the same
And so do I yearn to sit
By the shore where horizons do cease
And thank the seed of silence
For this life that I had on a lease