Bonsai


You captivate me with the softness of your words.
Intellectual thoughts let me see your truth.
My heart beats faster inside your ozone.
My Bonsai Princess; my sweet unknown.


Only in your hands could I ever be brought to life.
Only with you at my side would I ever need to fight,
For I would protect you from all who would threaten.
I will be with you, through all that which I have no wish to mention.


Allow me to be your scissors of steel,
Against all enemies; against all who do not feel,
The love you ooze in the way that you move.
With you I am at last jealous-proof.


As water falls from bright blue skies,
You and I slide through the waterfall of life.
As we rise to our feet, our minds always meet.
You cannot disappoint as you always enrich me.


With perfect detail you describe your day,
As I scribe away.  My words you say,
Are beautiful; my beautiful muse,
You are my only way.


(C)2017 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.

She was made of silk
Though she was soft to the touch
Her fibers were strong
Her secrets and stories
Tightly woven
But if you grasp one loose string
She unraveled as quickly
As she was woven together

Oh how I wouldn't mind wasting time
changing and growing by your side
like two grape vines finding purchase on
each other's shoulders

moving sideways against old fences
of trauma and borders

Oh how I wouldn't mind
growing wrinkled and saggy
if only if you were by my side
feeling time pass us by


Oh how I want to hear you laughing
Oh how I want to be there for you
when you feel sad
when you cry
I want to be your anger
when the world seems like a ship
wasting away without an anchor

Oh how I would give certain parts of myself
to move with you
in seaweed like motions
across our ocean floor.
soft sweet sand
dripping away from my shoulders
how the sea meets the land
even if we only dance
alone
On separate shores

Cause a world without you is
a world not worth seeing
too dull
unimportance and perfection glimmering
a shallow surface and purpose

and dangerous
more than any storm or cave
that we could tangle through
the fact that maybe
you might just leave me behind

and I'd have to suffer through
knowing there is a world
with and without
you.