I turned my heart
Inside out
And saw the small black hairs.

I brought them up in Conversation,
Everyone just stared

It's too taboo
But true is true
And you know what they get up to...

But someone who
Stays true to you?
That's something to look up to.

When a child's eyes bloom up to her mother,
I feel the season of your love.

Rich and robust
An exploding love
Spills from the scene and comes alive.

With plans to touch every heart.

She is the most meaningful thing--
Her mother's love will grow and sing
And stitch the world
A quilt of love

And will it find some homeless soul,
And patch for it a little hole?

That always made a difference--
That always took me home.

You were smooth like river rocks,
And time made you hard

Under my skin and all around me
The charm
Of your skeleton

I lived to drop you on my tongue
And hold you in my mouth

...

Traveling now, along the stretching slopes of your body
My body jerks around the bends

With want of skin like river rocks
A moment to defend.

did i catch you flying past?
wonder woven in your breast
with leaves like folded feathers
and slopes like
sleeping doves?

did i miss something you said?
nothing ever seemed so sad
as the day i turned away
from your love.

i slung a string of sour words
in a blind and seething rage
then one day i stumbled out into the sun

curses stuck between my teeth,
i saw a sea of porcelain cheeks
and i would die
if i could just turn one.

A fool's eyes survey you,
Then flicker away
In sudden retreat

You are too beautiful
And my mind quakes,
My skin sweats

When you were writhing in pain
I was wandering around, cursing at the sky.

You were too beautiful
To be in so much pain,
And I
Was too idle,
Absent.

But the stars keep burning in the sky.
How do you think
I should spend my time?

Drunken little liars dot the heavens,
Catching fire
Or else breaking even

With temperaments meant
T'discuss more than just the weather
We stick our souls to a greater cause

No slump of a soul when we're summiting mountains
No slip of the tongue when we're uttering love
We'll do what we can in return for a moment
Directing our eyes to the summits above

In my heart of hearts,
You are a perfect song.

But somewhere along the way,
Love seems lost.

I'm writing this to try and keep you in
But your love
Is known
To break down walls

Thrashing black on white,
Trying to make sense of everything
Or maybe
Just to write--
Your love has pierced my everything
My head is ringing
My hands are shaking

I can see death in healing wounds
And healing wounds
In the great labyrinths of time

How badly I wanted to be
Just another child of yours
Bravely dreaming
On the ocean blue