Abercrombie

Flawless
Sleek, and smooth
Tatters upon glory
Trailing seams of silken beacon
Tangle, tousle, touch again
And play.

Feels Good

Did I just exhale?
So much tension gone
Shoulders roll
Easy
Cold doesn't chill -
Warmth exuding.
My face: I've been smiling
All day.
Hold back nothing;
What is TMJ?
Acupressurized placebo,
non therapy-induced -
Is this what happens?
Accepted. Changed.
Feeling all I am,
Alone, but safe,
In momentary lapse,
And I relax.

Daily Grind

Life intrudes
Give way for daily rote!
Make time to rush
Steal a kiss or three
Smell the flowers
Be
Between sinks into
Frantic, disheveled
Reality

After Trauma

I only hate when I remember
Only when it burns
When I remember
It shouldn't take forever
To remember to forget
That I never have to
Never need to run
again, from this.
Never need to hide
No more fear,
If I can just remember
to forget to remember again.

Imbalance

How good is too cruel
Amazing, wrong for you
Can I take all you are
Laughing
Never look over shoulder
See you broken as I stay
To play, today, for all forever now?
Facade, escapade, mystery so plain
Between you and a hard place, your face I adore
Abhore I crumble to dysfunction
Imminent and breathing
Stupid is as does, I suppose I fell, you do
Daily take my shit, always fall for it,
What to see if you can take it
Make it right for we? I'll try
Mind, it's right, over matter, fine!
Give my breath,
Time
Together, you're mine and I find
that I can't stay amazed again
So now don't wake, softly
As I leave you. Don't dream
of me, turn in your sleep to hold what I can't be
There, messed in my mind, wrong
When you see I don't know who to be
Wrong for you, maybe wrong for me

Fairy Tale Ending

Mankind's potion,
Faust aside
Accidentally cruel, or
Mistakenly kind?
Pity in weakness
or sorrow for shame
Out your own window to
Weather your foibles and
Burnish your affluence
"Know thyself" then and today
lay thy plans, storm dungeons
o valiant, mouse of men;
Retreat and beat the hand
that fed you as a babe
and raised you up to curse the day
you birthed and bawled and
met the world, a new bald scraeling,
Empty pages yet to fill - to tear
and scribble out, erase and pen -
Scribe thy saga, Cinderella of this
Misery now, but faithful at last.

The Biggest Difference

Am I seen truly

in wonder or settlement?

Find in my freedom

your own, or new shackles?

I am the same

And you, oh you both sides affix

and afflict with intention!

And on in eros, in eras, in space

See me, see destiny! or cringe at the lowliness,

brought you to find me: brings home and you here:

High is the pedestal, lowly the loam, 

Chasm betwixt too immense to be breached.

And so, shall you keep me above or beneath?

Hair Coat

Sleek lovely shades caress
with care, tear out
what lies beneath
No need to buffer
from chill and wear
undercoat of armor
Stripped to fit
Accepted norm,
Now be seen invincible
not appearing unprotected
As you are.

Forever

It always means
Until
Nae, I mean to stay! Protest long
And loud - not I, to falter, hurt you, leave.
I am not the same as he;
I'll not leave you behind, nor go on without.
I need you. Need.
Forever.
Protest loud and long
It always means until:
Forever

Monster

Seen as darkness
Broken, vile
Bad inside, and wrong
Why this mark, this scar?
Step away! Why?
Oh why did I look?
Oh, Christine!
My love has let me go,
I peer beyond,
Un-allowed to see
I saw the key, withheld
and held against me
I have answers to questions
Unasked, and to riddles
Unspoken, having seen
through the ring of ice
Inside the beast, the way
to unwanted peace.

In this Bubble

Harm none
Heal, rest, ponder
Laugh aloud and sing
Alone. With me.
Touch lightly
Love fully. Breathe.
Keep compassion,
Remember to thank
Those who please.

Understanding Sylvia

Wider smile, shimmy and clap
Add in volume, quick retort
Witty banter, intellect abounds
Between bouts of brawn
Frenetic motion, some erratic
Run, play, pound!
Encompass all in whirling frenzy
Edge of chaos waits in spite
holds in anguish, fear, despair
Until, as placed by loving hands
my bell jar gently rests from falling
atop my spinning world
and on the ground.

Leuk

Cells so tiny
How can they end
a beast as this?
I could break those cells and crush them,
Smash and quell them,
Make them cease to be!
Cells so tiny,
I could stop them -
But they're me.

Anxiety

Fight all known
Else unknown, you all
Afraid fight on!
Despair to lose, aye,
Dread to win - For then what?
In peace, jitters crave war
Endorphins crash into emotions
Bring the battle. Create your chaos
and stir amid it all the peace
Foregone of friends and lovers.

Joy

Where this optimism?
How it builds, elapses,
Still entangles! Eyes shine
Glisten, dance - lashes flow
frame gleaming shine.
Grin and bear with
Grit the days, enjoy
them one and all because
you Must. Escape deep darkness
Skirt all evil thoughts and whereabouts
forced manic extroversion key
to blessed oblivion of just
Happy.

Shower

Steam and song
rise, surround
scrub and ohm.
Tile warms; window builds fog.
Shreds of care, of worry
ebb and ease with
Rinse, repeat, re-sing refrain
Tension leaving, left and gone.
Terry-wrap and faucet turn,
and sink in solace,
Mab to seek.

At the Jetty

Balance, pose
Flare to flair and then,
Let go of driftwood, lift on air,
Land in sand and then,
Dance light footed, break to run.
Elicit landed murmuration's
Sparkling, swift, and sweet migration,
Off jetty's sandy shoulders as
Solitaries left behind jump,
Flutter from the wave.

Sweet

Kind, soft touch, so new?
Sorrow for lack
for gentleness unknown
Peace unenfolded and arms unembraced
Never felt?
Weep for missing touches
lost caress, imagined hand
to hold, shoulder to lean.
Mentor to guide
lover to lie. Oh
Lack of indulgence in peace!

Migraine

End,
Please,
Or replace!
Unknown terror better
than unquenched ache -
Tugs and binding tight
Bands of steel, drills of ice
Inside the melded mind
Of I, and why?
For care?
End, gnawing,
aching pain,
Oh, end!

Morning After

Same place
New
How, magic,
chamelion-eyed
saw tearing shield,
calloused arm?
Etherium
crash down
Bring sorcery
Here
Abound amazement
Smith's orbs
Wide to see, as
Neophyte to joy
This time around