I Can’t Love You

I can’t love you because I’m broken.
I can’t love you because I’ve been hurt.
I can’t love you because I’m afraid.
I can’t love you because you’ll break my heart.

I can’t love you because I don’t want to be rejected.
I can’t love you because you don’t want me.
I can’t love you because I love you.
I can’t love you because it tears me apart.

How

How does one catch the attention of the leaf blowing in the wind
As it dashes and darts in that direction and this
twisting and turning just out of reach?

How does one gain the love of one who doesn’t love but looks
Beyond it, over it, around it, feeling it, yet hungers
In unknowing blindness of the invisible?

Chalice to Chalice

Chalice to Chalice are we
Arms entwined and
Silver caresses over
Heaving breasts
Hearts beating in celebration

Drink from my cup as
I shall from yours
Dancing in turn to
The song coming
Sweetly from your tongue.

Beginnings and Endings

Beginnings and endings
They all have a start
Whispers and daydreams
They come from the heart

When will I find mine?
A muse will you send
To lead me to splendor
And this heart to mend

Whispers and daydreams
What do they know?
They disappear with the sunset
Leaving nothing to show

There are no beginnings
But endings to spare
Happy is fleeting
And love is still rare.

Firestarter

Playing not with fire
for I have felt the heat before
leaving scars like cigarette burns
up and down my arms
and into my soul.

Look not into the eye
of the flame that bears temptation
when embers glow inside
and the slightest spark
would cause a deadly fall.

Keep arms and hearts inside
the ride at all times or risk destruction
because nothing melts the soul
and resolution to protect
like the gaze of the Firestarter.

Knock, Knock

Knock, knock.
Open the door and let her in.
It’s just the wind, an invisible breeze
calling to caress your cheek
and kiss your lips and
wrap around you
Like I wish I could.

Tears In My Garden

Hope and my heart lay in broken pieces on the ground

Tears and blood, from the hole in my soul, splatter amongst the shards

Wet trails pour from my fingertips like rain

I raise my face to the heavens and wonder what happened

They say that nothing is worth dying for

What is one to do when there is nothing worth living for?

The world turns in its cruel dance unknowing, uncaring, oblivious

To the love of those watching over it

Why step softly on the grass, nurturing, empathizing, waiting patiently

Hoping one day for that lush Garden of Eden

When the vines only end up choking the life out of you

And another claims what you hoped for your own

Should I have screamed and ran and trampled on the tender shoots?

Would that have saved my soul?

Patience and love are my way and I cannot change that

I thought I was right but even you have forsaken me.

No Such Thing

Hopes and dreams and flying machines

Lift us off the ground

Love and hate and help too late

Only make us frown

There’s no such thing as diamond rings

That reflect a shiny soul

There’s only bad to make you sad

And break the heart it stole

Lover and King

Be my lover
And be my king
Be my world
And everything

Kiss me hard
And kiss me light
Kiss my heart
Will it be all right

Lick my neck
And Lick my core
Lick it good
I’ll be your whore

Love my smile
And love my soul
Love my eyes
Is love your goal

Treat me fair
And treat me kind
Treat me well
And you’ll be mine

Be my lover
And be my king
Be my world
And everything

Frozen Kisses

Sweet kisses frozen static
Caring eyes looking, watching
Generous heart unmoving
Lighting for you where it’s dark
Loving you with a heavy soul