Friday, April 17, 2009

dreams crawl over me

I am a coward

I don’t understand

what it means to dream in Arabic

and rap in a foreign land

 

and the life and the love and the

strength

that powers on

through and again

 

that I see and I watch

through my three inch thick screen

 

wider

than that you know

 

that keeps me in touch

but still out of reach

 

there’s a tongue filled with grouse

far, far away in a wooded retreat

where I can cry

 

into my vodka

wishing

 

I was marching

through a funeral parade

a gas confrontation with

spears in the air

 

but somehow it doesn’t make sense

like my cowardice

my lowly retreat

is what everyone’s dying and

killing for

 

and it’s all a mistake

 

everything’s fine here

where  hearts yearn to live

no battle no struggle

no anger no hunger

 

no matter what else

I float in my sleep

and dreams

they crawl all over me

 

 

 

cry for love

we went out in the star-chilled

night

six bare feet

joined twelve furry paws

on the wooden deck conceived

and born

four years earlier for this very moment;

we waited

in quiet anticipation

and were not disappointed

 

a shriek colder than

the night

itself

rendered strong daddy arms

warm mommy comfort

obsolete

 

shrieking in reply

the child,

of pure and innocent mind

had no means of conjuring up

horrific thoughts,

the kind running through our minds

 

so curiosity nudged her back

onto the porch

to hear the screaming

in the woods

again

the cry for love of a red fox

 

new year morn

the last day of the sun

has risen

now

in the new year

 

across the earth’s dry throat

a rumbling

at the foot of my bed appears

 

blossoms

 

petals shatter

into

and out of

memories

and dreams rain

 

down

 

dusty light

 in silence

blue and grey

mute violets

drift slowly

heavy

steady

 

sorrow

 

a lunar tide

of smoke

below;

fresh

new

yellow and white

powder in the sky

 

ahhh...love...

Hold on, I'm gonna grab myself a large gin and tonic and then i'm gonna ramble on about love...amor...the real thing which twists and turns through so many depths and faces...
ew wait, not enough lime...
Cual es esa cosa, oscura y humeda como una cueva, que toma esa cosa concreta, la lame y la vuelve sublime.  Love should be straight forward, the ubiquitous arrow flung by a little stupid brat with carefree aim.  But it isn't.  Love is love, that much is true. there's no a little, in a way, kind of, or maybe; love is love is love.  But then again, is it?  what is it about love that makes it so complete, and yet threatens to fall precariously over that edge of doubt upon a fleeting thought of a love past?  Is it the spritefulness of having been younger that makes an old flame blaze?  Were we, the many me, that much closer to being one, true self back then that makes a silhuette in a darkened room, bring tears to my eyes?  What is it that I yearn for, when I know who I am now, what I have, is the purest, best thing I have experienced so far.  A life I would not trade for those hands pounding gently, a rhythm to a time that is nothing more than a ghost, living in a sweet dream.  Is it more like a chapter maybe?  Maybe things get better incremently, or maybe it's just a collection of short stories, is what it is.  And there are some that are just so good and maybe they feel like they ended to soon and maybe it was just so good, that we'd like to take a dip again.  But have you ever gone back to your favorite place, once you've move on to the next story?  It's never the same and always heartbreakingly different.  Is that what makes the tears run into my mouth? that bittersweet that tastes like life?  Remembering how good it was and knowing it will never be just like that again.  Maybe we shed tears for the future and what is yet to come.  All the never will be like this again that we haven't even loved through yet.  Maybe the tears are the smiles in this twisted world of love, and it's only natural to cry if you've ever loved, and we cry just for love's sake.  Because that's what it feels like to love, it's heart wrenching and we can't feel it, cuz it's inside so deep, all protected and covered up by ribs and skin and so we cry so we can taste it and remember what it felt like, what it feels like and what it will feel like to love, love, love...ahhh...still need just a little more lime. xoxo 

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