Tag: love poem

when i knew i was going to lose you, i thought

this is how you lose:

slowly but surely slipping, gently losing your footing

your grip slackening.

certainty is the final blow, a slow cut

across arteries, blades across flesh, bleeding.

“i will lose this”, the last words of all

possibilities as it eke out its last heartbeats

“i will lose this,” the last words of all

that could’ve been as its receding footsteps’

empty echoes bid its final goodbyes

“i will lose this,”: coffee, soda, bottles

all empty and upended and final.

this is how you close a chapter.

this how you end the story:

by losing what you’d rather not, but truth

is a liberating foe, an enemy sworn to your side

binding instead of freeing, yet somehow still

an open cage you’d rather not step out of.

this is how you lose:

in silence, in suppression, in truth.

EV

i saw the storm rolling in,
so i tied my bed posts down.
i heard the thunder
so i shut the blinds to not see the
lightning strikes.
i saw the hurricane before
it even came to be.

that did not mean
i did not dance in the rain, though.
that did not mean
i did not intentionally left my rain boots
to wade deep in the flood.
that did not mean
i did not close my eyes
and let the raindrops wash away
all remnants of the past.

so when the storm is over
i could not say i regret
the aftermath.
i see the debris
and still
i am grateful.

storms pass
but rebirths come only once.

Rosebuds and Rocks

I am walking through my chosen Path / when I passed by the house of Love

I knocked on Love’s door / and the knob turned and turned

“Do I have it wrong?”, I ask / but there was only silence on the other side

So I / went on my way / as the footprints Silence understand

 

I took a wrong turn / down the dark Fate trodden stairs

Smiling at the bottom of a pit / Love offered a hand

“I thought You weren’t there,” I say / but there was only smile and smoke

So I sat in silence / Let Love sit in with me / as unreasonable my Choices understand

 

I climbed out by myself slashes and shattered / Pieces pressure-pressed into Possibilities

when

I saw Love, beautiful and lone / and this time, I offered myself

“Why do you try?,” Love asked / but there was only Present and Future in our hands

So I / held Love close while I still can / as Abandonment cold sheets will soon understand

 

I finally settled at the end of my Path, strange, changed / and I welcome the visitors from my journey

Fate stood in the door way  and Choices perched on the chair / Future looked out the window

As Present held Past’s hand / Abandonment touched the dusty plates

the Pieces silent across untouched sheets / Possibilities picked the broken glass

“Why?,” I ask / as Love poured scalding Hope into my chalice soul

 

“Oh darling, darling,” a twinkling laugh / “Just write the damn Poem. Isn’t the sky beautiful tonight?”.

angel

i watch as you open the gates

shoes strode set inside set aside stored

 

i watch you the same way

i watch the birds flit

in and out and dart out and about

 

i watch as you offer your hands

possibilities opening at the closing

of your fingers over mine

 

i watch as the butterflies

dance and dive, dandelions in the wind

i watch as though there are no

vines twisting and buds growing

inside

i am bursting

 

i watch and am wary

i watch and i worry

birds flit in and out

dart out and about

 

what if you, too?

 

possibilities open at the close

but birds in cages beg otherwise

 

i watch as the key turns the lock

 

what if us, too?

 

vines twist and buds grow

butterflies choose where they land and

dandelions would rather stay

 

i watch as the sun sets on our eden

 

what if i, too?

 

unclasped locks meant solitude in the house

while uncaged birds sing with the butterflies