35

can i be your insomnia

can i be your time

would you guide me

when I need a place to hide

a place inside whispered words

to be lost in your rain

hidden in the pain

I’ll watch over you

if you travel somewhere new

how far it doesn’t matter

I’ll go with you

it will be okay

if we’re lost along the way

you were there

even in the moments

you couldn’t see

taking me to be

comfortable in where I’m going

34

stardust from the skies

on wings of paper butterflies

flies time back to you

33

slowly without knowing

at the end of that moment

your tempest breached

those walls of a crying soul

and the words began to crumble

under the weight of heart shaped wreckage

of scars whispering ‘I’m back’

and under the cover of this darkness

and in its loudest moment of silence

appeals are uninvited

unallowed feelings are quieted

suffocating a heart that wants to give up this fight

this love is not love

this love is not love

32

i say goodbye to you again

you and your steel angel

two days

two weeks

two years

knowing a greater expectation

is asked by all below

you never minded the call

their heeding, their needing

you and your steel angel

return to the sky

valiantly circling from above

watches over my honored heart

and says goodbye again

31

can i fill this need

with one pour of me

a soul dark and bitter as italian espresso

seduce my stranger with scents of

jamaican blue mountains

touched by jakartan skies

and raindrops on machiatto kissed skin

dripping columbian curls with caramel ribbons

caress whip cream pillowed lips

sweetened with a french kiss

can i fill your need

with one sip of me

consume me

keep me up

keep me waiting

just one question i want to ask

how do you want me in the morning

how do you take your coffee

30

March is here

this haunting banner that means war

summons the deathly shallows of Winter

trapping me in its bitter isolation

a hesitant pattern of constant graying ground

and sobering frigid skies

surrounded by sulking naked trees in vertical slumber

held captive in silenced stillness

and its hollow breathless sighs

with darkness encompassing most hours

of somber scenes I can’t remember

and quiet stars lost in falling frozen tears

impatiently waiting for its first full moon

my March is here again

29

Lost in the journal of these memories

of tattered thoughts in papered ink

that try to seduce the stranger inside

attempting possession of this weary heart

with collapsing assurances of hollow words

Leave me to myself I beg

before I surrender to time

to appreciate the fallout

to be the alchemist of my normality

to embrace the ordinary within it

28

this endless basement
in my mind
I lost myself
in the kindest lie colors that were so fragrant
yet flowers they were not only knotweed of my past
this fertile soil these defiant roots
makes violent twisted pavement
tripping my solitary shadow
of a heart forever vacant
without you

27

how to begin again

as one, together

we can’t fully embrace each others realities

if we choose not to remember, such a beautiful lie

nonetheless

we can learn to humbly show the truths hidden in tall tales

we can acknowledge the need for emancipation

and not be defeated by these missteps

nevertheless

maybe in our implicit prayers

maybe in our silent testimony

we can choose to be a little more

26

I wonder sometimes if I can find somewhere you don’t exist how I have lived
are in these moments
only I will remember
always trying to make it to dawn
without disappearing into empty dreams always trying
to fly far away
without crippled wings always trying to soothe this thirsty soul without losing myself
and I wonder sometimes if time has stopped for you too