I wish I could yell out all my anger
I wish I could cry away my sadness
I wish I could be allowed to feel my feelings but that is not the way a lady behaves.
So, I cross my legs
So, I smile and nod
So, I pretend

Can you please lend me your eyes?
Don't be long, I promise.

Please, let me show you what I see in you.

John Coltrane
Once said
He wanted to play the saxophone
So well
That if his friend was sick
He could heal him.
If we had a drought and needed

                         Rain

Trane could play and make it

                           Rain


Oh, John - Bless your dream:

                     Love Supreme.

Grow up, they said
but even as I did
I lost some child like wonder

Now. All I could ever want
Is to grow back down.

I am in love with the way you avoid me
It reminds me of myself

THE ONLY TRUE RELIGION

By the grace
of your kiss

I enter the door
of this bliss

finding myself

newly created
by you

in the image of
your love

the kindness of your hands
offering me

the gift of this

your smile

the only true
religion

I can believe in

your eyes
the only prayer

that I know

your laughter
the only heaven

known to me

your lips
the forever where

my soul
enters

to kneel
before your heart.

Sometimes I feel like we're connected
Heart to heart
String between
Held in place with safety pins.

I sink
deeper and slower
into emerald
and turquoise so dark
it's almost black
the water claiming me
finally, as it should
pressuring my lungs to collapse
under the lightest weight
engulfed in deep blue
love