If I’m heading towards infinite nothingness
Then what’s the worry about pain?
A fond farewell
No more
If I exist for all eternity
Then what’s the concern?
A torn fingernail on the way
A character building exercise
The pain of my death
I think I’m in love!
I will hold you
And merge into everything
The scent of you coming
Anticipation!
Twenty years of descent
The approach to infinity
I embrace all that you bring
Every loss a gain!
Through your door will be everything
Or nothing
Amazing
As a power
Timing might be all I need.
First I happen to see you
How did that work?
Walking beside me
Your friends know me from school
So we say hey
Then later
Because I am in love
I write you a note
Without knowing the address
It’s a beautifully clear day
And when I fold an envelope
Sign your name just right
I take it downtown
Just when I’m able
No hurry
And there you are
Just coming out of the library
I don’t have to say anything
You see me
Because you were looking
And say Oh, my!
When you read your name
There on the card
In my hand
The room in my mind where I find you
There is soft light and an aroma of
Possibilities.
I am surprised by a music that tingles my upper spine and down
Numbing my thoughts
The light changes
Or my pupils open
Warmer here and there
Leading me to you
And beneath my awareness l want to taste again
What you are
My arrectores pilorum universally contract
In expectation of touch
Waiting there
Being more alive
In remembrance of you
Face on the floor
Alone with my shock
Don’t wish me strength
It’s not force that I need
Sure, help me sit up
Let me cry if I must
But show me love
The profound tenderness of silence
Let me breathe your fierce peace
Crystal clear assurance
Grace under sublime pressure
A caress amid thorns
We sympathize with the humping dog
Forgive the murderous cat
But demand human be human
Or show sufficient shame
How horrid to discover
Repeated animal acts
Unabashed lies from our idols
Our leaders
Paid assistance from confederates
Power having corrupted
All we blinded by outer glory
No single accusation believed
No single crime reckoned
Until by divine wind the wall is tumbled
We see an animal in man-shape
Grotesque characature.
And question our ancestry
Our uprightness on sinking sand
From our little hole
We must rebuild Creation
From our tiny hut
Encompass its width and glory
From our midnight bed
Expand ourselves to its edges
Let go of our boundaries
Blow ourselves up
Reach
A soaring, flying reach
Out everywhere
Become completely everything
And then when it is yours
Pull
Squeeze
Bend creation
Invert it down
Fold it as our wings
Straighten and tuck
Rustle and shake
Preen the universe
Master All and yourself
Alive
Aglow
Ready once again to kick ass
Silly for the soul
For the eyes to cry
Squeeze water
When all is lost
Or when sudden happiness
Breaks open the heart
Leather gloved fingers
Upon the neck
Throttling speech
Why stop the uttering of
The indescribable
Incapacity mirroring
Inner helplessness
Where is my reason to explain
The senselessness of caring
The impossibility of such beauty
Such tenderness existing
That I should have witnessed it
Ever; and never again
