Do dreams paralyze
Watching the wandering sky
Learn Nature's wisdom

Destroying myself
One evening at a time
Rebuilding by day

I speak to the night
She asks if I am lonely
Your girl watches me

Anarchy by Numbers

Be careful with the words you read
and let live inside your mind.

On Change

The worlds changes because
it has to
              because
it does not know

any thing different

because 
              it will
                        die

if it cannot

How could so many years 
have passed since the last time 
your voice could sing?

Reaching for the light
outside my window
I stop my hand 

Rip me to shreds

Blood and flesh

Nothing left

Morning Meeting

The birds don't need a pot of coffee
for their morning meeting in the tree
outside my window. No one is getting

fired. The quarterly reports are
projecting sustained growth and the whole
company is expanding steadily.

Once the news of this is announced
there is a consensus of chirps
at their good fortune.

I've been listening in to their meetings,
watching them come and go in their
business casual plumage.

It's a good time to be a bird. I hear
some of them are looking for branches
in trees by beachside real estate.

carve words from my tongue

create new lines of meaning

the lark sings outside

selective vision

what is there for us to see

could we understand

you smile in your sleep

what does an infant dream of

no one remembers

the moon stares at us

gazing in admiration

our mouths are silent

I don't want to see your beauty fade 
and see you become an old waitress. 

Big heads, small minds.

Why worry about what you've done 
when you know what you did.

Let it happen

If my eyes will not close
I must close them
against their will
until the mind
catches wind 
and we reach
an understanding

What I Have Learned

We could not live without each other

but we learned how to. 

There is happiness to be found in this life

without those we love.

Our hearts have dulled to whatever pain

we once felt.

I can see your face and not think of our

separation but remember our closeness.

                                   

Even obsession fades in time.