You

You’ve been lost

Obscured by clouds

Under the rain

Stuck in dry dessert

I’ve been there with you

Even when I hardly knew

What was in the mirror

I love you, what you do

How could I not,

It’s what I choose

The songs you play

Forget the miseries

Make them new each day

The present pleasant memories

When you have been hurt

When you have been weak

When you have had to beat yourself down

To begin to build it all back up

It’s just a splash on that mural of what you are

Forget the names

Material hooks

That drag you down

Painful memories,

What if’s

And meaningless to be’s

Everything is simply what is

And you are

And I love it

You’re the beginning and the end

What we have done to ourselves

Reminders

Reminders of me

In her car

On her bed

In her purse

In her chest

Reminders of her

In every breath

Every still moment

A feeling of less

Fear, of all things fear

First mine, then hers

The largest root of the vine of foolishness

To deny of all things

This particular blossom of happiness

How must divinity look upon us

What further punishment beyond awaits

For this most stupid of sins.

Only Alone

A fifth little dot

That was never meant to be

Perhaps should have been aborted

If not for out dated theology

Just an extra scamp that makes no sense

An orphan in the window with six parents

A disappointment times six

With no quick fix

My friends, many “friends”

All on lone to thee

I kept it intact

To make my impact

As they did for me

But I finally reserve

To be alone

For no matter what, I’m born owned

They all use me, so they can use them

Turn to pull my leash, pull me down

And leave me with a pen

And every time someone works the gears

And their fingers sense the combo

I lose delight when I thought they figured me out

And recognize my old companions

False hope and sorrow.