New Sound

I've played every single one of your instruments

and still need a new sound

a little toy

to play with 

when you're not around

Stored You

I've somehow stored you in my eyes

I gaze into mirror and see you looking

And loving me

As if I were the invention of woman

And you a man a million years alone

Now

Resolution or resurrection

Whatever the foe

Whomever the friend

I have this plan for you

Take me now

Or leave this

Rock Free

Here I lay on this beach

Seaweed strewn drowned guitars

wash up to dune and back out to sea

Shell colored drum heads 

roll in with tides 

cockles and high hats and scallops and rides

A band of freedom I can never touch

In which no one can ever play

Just see it leaping in the wave

The notes lapping up between my toes

Even that felt like too much

But both feet in could truly save the music 

you so freely gave

But as my hand went to the land

Ever unplanned you just float away

Charade

As you were walking in your joy parade

Leading the band

Waving the crowd

I was writing you a quiet note

A hushed psalm

Shushed loud

And you were spectacle

I simply spectacularly shy

And I 

Let your two ring sigh

Ring through these halls for days

And now find confetti and cups

In the places we laid

Your big charade

Shake You Off

Until my better senses kick in 

let me shake you off

A Dare

I dare you to stand naked before me

and not be blown apart

by the sheer need to dematerialize

and join again with me whole

Stand there and look at me

Drink me as the heart drinks blood

I have known you my whole life

Without knowing you at all

Secretly kept the fire alight 

the dream that love made is love created-

Real

Exists

Now not only within the Mona Lisa smile
defining the sky of this room
divining

as naked I sit

still in front of you

And watch you disappear into being

Moat

Entering my body

Gets you into the moat

surrounding my heart

Which is the castle
But stay the serenade of townsmen
and their foundried bellows;
those metaled assignations of the heart and mind
compounded to stone
a vicar for the ruby kindness
and the stakes which protect this dull pink ache
oh yes
you are inside of this prodigious dominion
but do mind the dragons

Beautiful

If only I could put his beautiful soul

into your beautiful body

Sleeping

Did you think

One clover kiss

would raise me

make me 

run into your velvet arms?

I've been sleeping 

for one hundred years,

had one million dreams

a little presumptuous?

Since last I was laid

to rest, this rusty past

comes back in flakes

of dusk coloured days and 

fairytale fades 

to deep sleep blue-

was it you?

Back when?

Whose heart was true?

Why don't you

make me love you 

again