Relationships

Always and forever will I hold dear
That fortuitous day in May
When we talked shop
And pondered over aging clocks
In your city atop a hill
Overlooking that beautiful belvedere

Every time I see your name
I sit and pray
Hoping you’ll somehow know
That we’re okay

Life keeps ebbing and flowing

With a passion all of its own
Utterly oblivious to our maudlin
Dublin, Austin, Destin
All our futile…

A Dream Deferred

I only feel gravity and I wonder why

my candle burns at both ends

I am tearing apart at the seams
bruised, battered, broken
my heart is hurting

in my mind, you’re not engaging
in your mind, i’m overthinking
outside our door, the war rages on
the silence between us so loud
you can hear a pin drop

You are fire and I am earth
Drawn as I may be to you, I’d only get scorched
Like Icarus flying too near the sun
Life will arise again no doubt
All in due course
Akin to the rebirth…

I revel in the work of art
that is your body,
feeling your heart 
beat flush against mine,
tracing the contours 
of your chiseled jawline,
beneath the sheets
in various states of…

In Memoriam

To honor the loved ones we have lost

this is just to say

this is just to say
i know Pain can suffocate
and make aging accelerate
halving your telomeres by 28
painting your body…