if who i am is what you see
what do you see when you look at me ?
across the room
across the world
your eyes are the one thing i catch.

the invisible, unbreakable string ties us together
holds me by the neck
your gaze grazes my lips
and you forget her presence--
october is endless.

--

ViCTORiA’S iNTERLUDE

VICTORiA, SAY iT BACK
i CAN’T BE LEFT ON THE LAST WORDS
THE EiGHT LETTERS.
WHO HURT YOU ?

BRiCKS ARE WEiGHiNG DOWN ON YOUR HEART
NOTHiNG’S EVER GOOD ENOUGH
NOTHiNG HERE COULD SAVE YOU
OR YOUR CUTTHROAT KiNDNESS

CRASH MY CAR WiTH ME iNSiDE
LiQUiD GOLD LEAVES YOU FEELiNG PUT TOGETHER
CRASH MY LiFE BUT i’M NOT MAD
BECAUSE iT WOULDN’T FEEL RiGHT WITHOUT YOU

YOU’RE ONLY EiGHTEEN
HOW COULD ANYONE HATE YOU
i FALL FOR YOUR KiND
YOU STAY THE SAME AND iT’S DANGEROUS

SO MUCH SMOKE
ViCTORiA, THiS HAS ME FEELiNG SO LOW
YOU’RE CRUiSiNG WiTH YOUR EYES CLOSED
LEAViNG ME WiTH NO CLOSURE

YOU’VE DROVE ME AWAY WITH YOUR EMOTiONS
LEFT TO FORGiVE AND FORGET
AFTER BREAKiNG ME BADLY
BLURRY ViSiON, ViCTORiA, i’M BLEEDiNG OUT AND BRUiSED.

--

victoria, what will it take ?
you were the closest thing i had to her
but now that i do have her
there’s no need for you
there’s no need to be jealous.

you’ve given me nothing.
can’t i ask for one thing,
i just wanted you to burn the strings
but instead you cut the ties.
you’ve given me closure.

i guess it takes conflict
to know who really takes you far
but no matter how far we split
our string stays tied.
haven’t we been through this before ?

~
the night starts here,
the night starts here
in the dunes,
fixed in time;
incipient waves falling into place,
their subtle purpose
to roll over and sing;
the fountainhead above us,
like it's above the shore,
attaching softness to a shell.

we blew on a dandelion
and the whole world disappeared;
love is a mysterious shape,
love is a remembered rhythm.

I have trembled
my way deep,
I'm a guest in here,
drinking at the stream,
seeking bliss in
the plural homemade kiss:
peppermints and orchid rain.

we please the night,
we please the night in interlude,
and it merrily leaves us that strand
of pearls called "good morning."
~

Heaven, earth, sea interlude

From the  spaces of stars
to its death,
from heaven back to
the  oceans depth,
from the mountain peaks to
dewy glens,

I love you from moon to saturn.

This love has morphed differently within me, heaven struck, caught up by the heights of my devotion, laced with enchantment. I speak your name with longing, as if my words were haunting interludes, in the cacophony of souls whispering a multitude of wishes to a body that once lived — an old figure of myself.

By my life’s imposing conclusion;-
My poetry will all be an additional storyline
It’s words remembered; my memory but forgotten
Surely the beginning of someone else’s inspiration
-Of course, in the middle of their new found saga
  
     And by that, I shall be content.

i am
words
dripped in honey,
a golden sheen
across
my body,
coursing through
my veins
in luxury.
i am
an interlude;
the space
between your fingers
were not made
to contain me.

life is an interlude
when the world began
I was doing dreamily
sent out to a foreign land
with a vague recollection
of the pleasant paradise
I came from

how the creation seems so real, pacing around the garden
it’s always a revolution, I said, I can dig that
bronze trees before an azure darkening sky
down the cool breeze’s path, never held back your thoughts, heavenly shock
grabbing all the meaning, whatever I can come across

year already asked for an ending, gave it all my hopes, tell does it give a pleasant thrill
pictures were nice, the highway desert isn’t as scorching
absurder yes, fitting a preference for divine and outlandish

waited long enough
it’s a good time to leave
not that it was for nothing

travel before the sun gets here
make it bright and far as my
midnight music

games are fun when there’s a warning
about how much it can cost ya

numbers of stars, the more
that’s the hope
out there
somewhere too

I want an interlude that’s graceful, great as designed, a strange but heavenly dream
it’s my interlude