Do I write

Just now

While my passion

Is hot

Scream these words

Across the page

Spill this ink

In beautiful wasted clumps

Smears and glistening

Insights  



Or do I take this thought

This emotion  

And lock it away

And let it sit in darkness

Until I can control

It’s potency, it’s focus

Waiting for the right

Re-write?

I want to say

I don't think
you get it

but you do

I don't need you
in my everyday life

I just need you
to be true

You choose
the twist and turns

And I'll always love you.

Don't you get it?

You have got
to love
you.

I have broken the rules
Of social engagement
Left the loud bravado
Of storytelling behind

Explaining drains me
Of all the colors
I have used to paint me
In the reflection of your eyes

I prefer to sit here silently
Next to an open window
And let the words
Fall naturally out of my head

Until it is empty
And love becomes a simpleton

I open my door
To the inside
And leave it open

In the inside
There is calm
A certain silence
Makes on the outside

I float in
The air
An ether
I become

I am moved
With ease
A swirling smoke
Hollowed
By any
Sudden sound

Punched through
A space
In the middle
Of this mist

In the sudden
Emptiness
A void
Filled with respite

Where I settle
And rest
In the quiet