Tenderly
Please
Tenderly
Let your sainthood cover me
I am not
Myself
Today
My knees need your soft survey
This night
Now
Lightest touch
Small ease shan’t require much
Tenderly
Please
Tenderly
Let your sainthood cover me
I am not
Myself
Today
My knees need your soft survey
This night
Now
Lightest touch
Small ease shan’t require much
Busy, busy, boy in red
But I’m swifter still
Get my demise in your head
Think to be my pill
Do you dream I’ll give my all
To your damnedest plan
This Dark Friday caused your fall
My The Great I Am
And then when dusk becomes inevitable
Denial becomes plain as day
Admit it we must
There are words that won’t be uttered
Tones of voice reserved for others
Questions never to be asked
Surprises fade into midnight’s nothingness
A film
About nothing
Moving as a bother
A one-dimensional why
Before your prisoner’s eyes
Why have thee this lot
Why a circumstance
Why nuisance
A test
What Holy adhesive
Bound there
And how dare it have
Yet failed elsewhere
What roses perfumed
Her walk
And hued tint reflected,
Affected his vision
Bigger it is
Their world
And their treasures, their eyes
In proper places
The mystery, made clear
To me
Alone
The mind, mesmerized
A mess
Forgone
The malady, mindful
And yet
Reckless
The medium, mistaken
A wrong
Address
It reads as a song
The answers owed
Yet never forthcoming
The questions looming
That only the ghosts entertain
The life, the life, the life
Before, now, ahead, that must be to blame
All this you’ll never know
The cheapest of tricks
And someone is singing
Gather your thoughts
Make your coffee
Feed your cat
Wash your dishes
Lasso your longing
Claim your mapdot
Remember your place
Learn your lesson
Why we need the woman-girl
Sharing the storyline
She will save you from yourself
Lest you think too long and hard
Let her show you the world’s flora
Should your day be canvassed grey
Dare to let her lead you
In some season of your time
Teach her of the wonder-workings
To the world you navigate
Wonder then, aloud, fine sir
“Her grace, how might I hold?”
It’s all just random
Pain, pleasure, whether we survive
But do not bet your life
That the just rain
On those tulips
And the inches they grew
Overnight
Isn’t just divine