Disc of you

You left the disc of you
For me to watch alone
Around and around it plays
The eject button erased
So all I can do is see images of you face
Go around and around
The childlike grin
Fleeting glances
A cheeky glint from the side of your eye

I carry each face in my backpack
Flick through them in spare moments
They project into reality
Distorting what I see
Casting a shadowy hue over all I do

Since I can't stop watching
Play it again and again
I can't help but wonder
If you're watching the disc of me too

Love me in the dark

Can’t you kiss me with your eyes closed?

Sometimes I feel you’re too awake to see me

So love me in the dark then

If at night your thoughts wander to me

I’ll be waiting with open arms

And if your body wanders

You’ll hold me naked in your palm

Each of Us

To think of every life that has passed

Every life that is passing

Timelines intertwined

Every pain, hope, astounding joy

And to think if you combined all of those feelings

Pooled them together

Each quivering orb

Would it not make the earth tremble

Against the vast blackness of the universe?

Yet motion allows stillness

And between each throb 

Is each of us

Holding our breath

Looking up beyond the stars

And in a flicker of light,

We’re gone.

Angel

An angel lay 

Bathed in cold moonlight

I breathed the warmth of my kisses

So it might permeate her skin 

And make it glow.

Her eyelids flickered

Like those stars 

Blinking faraway greetings of goodnight

And I know if they’d been open

They would fill my soul with light.

Oh soft rhythms guide my feet 

Soft rhythms lead me home

If each beat be a step

And your heart is mine
Then I will walk with you

Until the day I die.

Love Mist

I think i love you

But thoughts can be ignored,

Like a blurry cloud,

If i stare just right at the sky,

In your eyes,

It will disappear.

And I know I cannot kiss you.

I don’t dare shatter

The iridescent bubble of friendship

Ink stained with deceit

For then we’ll see things clearly

And walk our ways alone

For the mist no longer keeps us.

I couldn’t meet up yesterday because I was disintegrating

I couldn’t meet up yesterday 

because I was disintegrating

like an orange peel

exchanging its soul with the earth

I laid there still

waiting for the ground

to drink me in.

God's voice

Once I was a sailor
Sailed to a faraway land
With salt in the air
And liquorice sand
I could hear God's voice there
In the whistling winds
And the waves that washed the shore
In the flutters of the leaves
And the echoes of birds' calls.
But most of all God spoke to me in the silence
In the gaps between
In the vastness before me
He filled every edge of the canvas
No matter how far I turned
So that my whole being was overwhelmed by sunlight.
And I smiled at each sparkle on the ocean's surface
Collected them like treasure to fill my heart
So that I never need look outside the walls of my being to see beauty
For from this moment I'll never part.