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Eleven Figures

By night eleven figures came to me
Unlocking doors that sealed shut long ago.
We travelled forward on a darkened sea 
To sleepy Somnus’ cave, hidden below.

Eternal slumber gave me rich insight,
Transcribing knotted weavings made by Fates.
The desert day so soon becomes the night.
A pink adenium opens the gates.

The broadened wings of Letum drive whirlwinds  
Destroying yet defining futile man.
This changeless contract Saturn can’t rescind.
This boundless desert wastes the best laid plans.

     The vision fades away, the figures leave. 
     The Moon is made anew, no need to grieve.

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Two Whole People

As people we are not just halves of souls
Do not pursue completion as but one.
We’ll find security in our own roles
And we’ll be stronger than when we’d begun.

Our time together moves too quickly, dear.
Since time itself we sorrowfully lack
I would not hesitate to hold you near
To never feel alone, mislaid in black

Lo, in the end it’s all irrelevant,
But insignificance is tractable
When holding you my love, so elegant.
Around you my concerns are placable.
 
    Combined there’s nothing we won’t rise above
    We needn’t feel afraid of lust nor love

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Untitled Haiku

For all Earth’s beauty
There is nothing I want more
Than to see your face

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Disappointment

You stole the joy you had afforded me
How incorrect I was about you, dear
I made the grave mistake of trust, you see
I thought you trusted me, but that’s unclear
I thought you differed from our other peers 
My heart, which aches, you’ve been neglectful of
Today your immaturity has reared
Why did you lie and tell me you’re in love?

You feign things may be how they used to be
I want to trust in you, let go of fear 
Because I’m still in love, you’re still my cutie 
Despite the fact you haven’t been sincere
With you I can forsake my cold veneer
I never wronged you, gave you gifts of love
Ignoring me then coldly reappearing
Why did you lie and tell me you’re in love?

You’re taking me for granted, grievously
But I’d still take you back if you’d appear
I’m starting to conclude that I’ve gone crazy
I should move on and leave behind the drear
I can’t get past you, wishing you’d be near
I still desire to make things right, my dove
I want to know just how we got here
Why did you lie and tell me you’re in love?

You left me on a secluded frontier
Am I no longer who you’re dreaming of?
I must not mean much. You have shed no tears. 
Why did you lie and tell me you’re in love?

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Queen

Laying down in bed without you beside me
Keeps me awake with my confidence shrinking.
The quiet part of my mind is locked and you have the key.
You stop my brain from over-thinking,
stop my heart from sinking.
I would give anything for you to stay.
For you to be the queen to my king
and never go away.

But you need to be free.
Your heart doesn’t have my same yearning
To never be apart in life’s tumultuous sea. 
An ocean whose crashing waves have me churning. 
I’ve been learning
to keep my space. We’ve met midway.
And to some degree my luck has been turning.
Lately things seem a little less grey.

So I hold myself back and plea,
to whatever power is listening,
that you will always want to be with me.
That one day this fling
will be a permanent thing.
When I look at you it’s so hard not to say,
“I love you, darling”.
I need you in my life to feel okay.

At the end of the day we sit on the couch recollecting
and I can’t help but ask, “Will you stay?”
Only to be given the answer I was expecting.
“Not today”.

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Blanket of Dreams

My eyelids feel like weights;
I crave a quiet room.
A temporary tomb
Wherein my blanket of dreams awaits.

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Cold Shoulder

Accepting an unpleasant certainty.
The poignant silence of an empty home.
Unanswered calls relay disharmony.

The world is melancholy monochrome.
No person should be made to feel ashamed
Of intimate emotions. Left to roam. 

I know I shouldn’t cast abrasive blame, 
But pain can make me act in ways inapt.
I’m left to wonder, was it all just games?

No sense of closure. Have my heart strings snapped?
With ev’ry passing moment all alone 
I know the doors are closing, I am trapped.

An icy rain is falling ‘pon my throne.

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Ballad of Golden Lacquer

Without your touch the world is bleak.
The sun is lightless
Compared against your radiance,
So bright I’m sightless.

Coincidence will not explain
How right this all seems.
The comfort felt in our embrace.
The sensuous dreams.

Perfection can’t, in truth, exist.
Allow destruction.
A fracture can be mended whole
With apt instruction.

A golden joining strengthened by
Commiseration.
Your hand in mine, we start again
On new foundations.

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Unguarded Heart

So you’ve been discarded
Like the trash you thought you were
And all the fears you can’t defer
Steal the heart you left unguarded

You feared she didn’t feel the same
She new her mind changed about you, though
She never cared enough to let you know
You’re left with nothing but your shame

But boy, didn’t you have fun?
You both had a good run
But now you're just down to one
And It’s all coming undone

If you keep wishing for death
You may just live to regret it
Fossilize in your tar pit
Feel your lungs running out of breath

But boy, didn’t you have fun?
You both had a good run
Now you're just down to one
And It’s all coming undone

My friend, you’ve been discarded
Like the trash you thought you were
And all those fears you'll never defer
Steal the heart you left unguarded

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Let Us Grow Apart

In repose, my dreams flowing by.
I wake in alarm. For you are gone

Not gone from this woeful world, only mine.
And not by your choice; my own.
Our trust lastingly torn

I can’t accept your friendship, but
I want to learn from my mistakes.
For all I know, my greatest err
was letting show the heart you’d take.

Though I’ve closed the door
I hope my feelings soften
‘fore resentment wins,
‘fore the burnt bridge collapses.
‘Til then, let us grow apart.

4/18/2018