Sweet Love

Sweet love

I am the suddenness

in your sleep

Ghost of dreams

which slipped away

smoke through

stained glass-

Where your reflection

still lingers.

Daughter

And the world goes on

In her sped fast way

Leaving us here

A bit breathless

Longing for each other

Miles away

I reach for you

Remembering

How you pulled me back

From the darkness

Shedding light

With your innocence

Seeing joy

When I only saw shadows

Pulling me back

To a time

When I could breathe enough

For both of us

Shallow it feels now

Missing your face

Wishing you needed me

As much

Always I wonder

If the light still halos you

Always I wonder if the shadow

Of your absence will cradle me?

On Being Human (for deverse; Good News, Bad News, Your News)

From the beginning

falling

from a heavenly grace

which offered paradise

But paradise cannot feed the human

always hungry

always reaching the sweet fruit of truth

and the truth

can be so ugly

genocides of innocents

wiped away in a deluge

of hate and desire

for the perfect which

cannot be found.

Tribes of strength

bowing -

The faithful crying

for their God

and as the news of the day

wipes its mouth of constant crime

we try to wipe the tears away.

How The Voices Sing (for deverse; Under The Influence of Music)

Faith don't fail me now
I know how the voices sing.

I feel so alone
like a frightened child
when the winds howl
seeking solace in the dance
of words.


How their truth
rings so loud
in the silence
of all I have known.