It is autumn again. I spent the year lost at sea. I’m waking now. Having finally broken free from the island and its lady that held me. Calypso, your singing enchanted me, your beauty captivated me, but love is never gained forever without the kind of freedom you do not yet know.
Category: Relationship
A Someday Relationship
Love can be one way But a relationship has to be two You love me, and I love you You are my closest friend, the intimate thoughts of my heart. It is to you I lay bare my soul, and it is in your hands I place the beatings of my spirit. You have drawn out the…
Delicate Love
You are like a flower that gives what can make honey You give to others what can make a pleasant scent You give your beauty to be enjoyed You ground yourself solid, and reach for the sun You endure the night when the day is done You open yet again And in the end, you give…
Electric Whirlwind
You blew in like rolling thunderclouds Playing games with my sunbeam shrouds Broke my barriers and split my sky Crackling peals rolled on by You gave me such a wonderful show You wisecracked, we laughed and so It was hard to see you go I knew this is how it had to be The universe…
Abandoning Abandonment
I hear him weeping. I know he is curled up on the floor. I stand outside the room – he can’t see me through the door frame. My heart fills with his pain, remembers his longing for love and the emotion he didn’t know to call jealousy. I recall all the insecurities and fears swirling around….
Water the Love
I feel you in the wild western winds howling over the plains within. I feel you in the snowy peaks and the ocean floors. I feel you in the depths and on the skin. I feel you coming out and going in. I feel you everywhere my feet go. I feel you through my tears. I feel…
Connection
We seem made to connect, and when connection suffers we suffer. There are those of us who do not desire connection. Either connection has brought pain or we do not understand how connection answers our unspoken questions. And what of those who’ve left it in pain? What can hurt us beneath the skin but need…
Light From Darkness
Like a star in the day, No one saw her. But her night came, And she lit the sky. I look out, and I stare, For never have I seen A light so alive. What power is this, That turns darkness into light? That beckons me wander the night So that I would catch this…
Breaking Free
The war had ended, and I found myself a prisoner in those foreign lands. I could hear the winds blowing over the sea as I sat bound in my cell. They called my name, bid me escape. I worked up all the courage I could find, pressed through the panic, waded through the sweat and tears,…
Beauty I Have Known 