Mine

I will always never
Need to be asked

You 
Wondering eyes
Serene skin
Soul on-point
Down-to-earth
Convicted of glory
Lovin’ the truth
Knows-who-I-am
Earnest genius
Preacher boy
Stoic sovereigness

Need to be asked
To invest in you

Half New

I saw me at midcentury
Wearing race car red
Was I alone
I do not know
A swing in my shortish skirt
A flip to my hair 
And sparkly Mediterranean eyes

Who’d dare trudge down,
Head first
With me
To the mystical waters
Just for a blessing 
Some rocks
And sandy feet

Someday Sunday

Northbound perhaps?
With the cold for your friend
Would that you’d walk
To the end of the Earth
And fall straight-away 
For all that you’ve cost your heart 
With the wrong kind of noise
Then the most silent voice 
Could continue in peace 
To champion somebody else 

Standing There

What to do with these eyes
Stricken since soon after birth
This beaming
Grin
Staccato-broken by battered hope

These ruining that
Silken, star-reaching 
Silhouette 
Who is thee
What to do they both wondered

Engagement 

I will share on the eternal until ashen

That you know as fact and not rumor

Your care, your voice, your very soul

You

Are not cordially, but most personally invited 

And the honor or your presence requested as necessary