Shift

The cold, still silence makes a sudden move
I feel a shift --a change in direction
Our world is spinning too fast for this groove
of poverty, hate, fatal infection
Watch for the signs on the side of the few
paths that will carry you to endless faith
Hear how they loudly proclaim to know you
their laws in their books cannot imitate
The love that you hold for the chosen souls
who will kneel and bow before your command
To fight, teach or die - whatever they're told
To preserve the hope, to destroy this land
Something is out there waiting patiently
Cloaked in the scent of a new enemy

Trial

You scrape
and dig
through coffin splintered hate
I cry
and beg
for you to arbitrate
Your hope
Your lies
will never compensate
for the truths
I hold
but can't negotiate

Beside a Rocky Path

Night and nature bring moonlit happiness
into our private world where we belong
your whisper calms me; soothes my restlessness
soft notes hidden in a familiar song
Clouds move with us -- our rhythms are shadowed
by a soft glow on the grass where we lay
Grasp my hands my passion has narrowed
I feel you move into my soul - please stay
We're breathing no air, two hearts brim with hope
born out of sighs beside a rocky path
Impatiently waiting for time to show
us how much we need -what we'll fight to have:
A lifetime of deep, meaningful kisses
An eternity of fulfilled wishes

Melancholy

Sharpened beliefs
form canine teeth
inside of my fumbled
and desperate kiss
I know you thirst
for coyote scented songs
a melancholy burst
trapped behind manufactured bliss

Transparent

I could not make those pages come to life
without the whispered words of love you share
Convince my heart when eyes and lips combine
to bring the scent of hope into our air
Surrender me to your will, take my hands
and place them high above my damaged soul
Squeeze strength into my veins with future plans
to carry me and ground me when I fold
into a paper thin transparent pain
sacrifice who I am for someone else
There is no place for love and all its games
a short pause between heaven's breath and hell
We saved a tree and planted a new seed
which grows and blooms while we wait patiently

Prodigal

Cynical versions of truths
release me
completely
to the prodigal verses of you
Stumbling into misty trees
steps behind
faded lifelines
drop to your shaking knees
I retreat with the dreams
we once knew

Protection

My heart:
intricately woven
threaded through steel
caught among metal tentacles
Your love:
the barbed wire fence
protection from unwanted intruders
surrounding my soul

Punishment

Impetuous feeling
Has my trusting heart
at the tip of a stake
while my cynical head is
plotting to negotiate

Buttons

Your eyes penetrate my mind instantly
each fantasy revealed for your pleasure
A dark room with a view when you kiss me,
transforms into a chamber with leather
straps of control to be broken by my
raw hunger for more mind altering sex
Closet with secret costumes of desire
they cover my skin --proposing my flesh
to your lustful needs, the hope to be stripped;
just seen for the man you are and have been
The part of you everyone else has missed
is what I will wear again and again
I lay here before you, buttons undone
The rattling in my chambers has begun