A thousand summers
yearn for the sweetest ache
of whispered love
urged by hasty tongues

Innocent embraces of wild lust
excites straying fingers upon summer delights
while hungry lips seek naked hearts

As broken secrets rise with the morning light
a coaxing sorrow beckons the end
with sleepy language
and lazy heart

Farewell

Barking names
Remember the day
You missed
The dire spirit
While digging up bones
Under the stars

Facing away from the moon
You forgot the lies
And remembered the truths
Of your secret heart

Locked inside
Away from the sun
You hold the keys
On your guarded island

My love
Chases the cold away
Leaving only the recalled
Warmth
Of his insides
That encircle me

My love
Frightens November
Into May
And grows the
Leaves
Just for me

My love
Oh my love
Sings sweet music
Taking away the sorrow
And leaving only
tender melodies

Pulling me back
in the arms of Mr. November
Time moves unfamiliar
But still I am

Longing for the known
thinking of fall cold
every corner there I was
unfamiliar

The melody moves unfamiliar
strange comfort in delight
of nostalgic rediscovery
But unstill I am

Unrelenting release
naive meanderings
Through the fall
into spring
but still I am

Things I remain to be
Lost in reverie
For a life ne'er meant to be
I hold on to unreality

Turning stones into dreams
Shrugging contempt from me
I loathe your incongruity
The shackles that bind me

Without I am within
As lost as I am found
You were ne'er mine
And me, for me only

flesh and bone
separated by stone
won't know
when you've gone
away from
home
where desires lay
Barren
on sandy shores

Shadow friend
Could but chant
The beauty of my sordid moon

Raining mist
Above their heads
Rusts dreams of spring to black

Sweet honey watches
as petals play lightly
upon aching whisper

Urging time away from youth
and crushing beauty
frantic life passes swiftly

Lurking behind
years and words
some things are
best left
undisturbed

Forgetting what is forgotten
Ungripping reality
The light of laughter all but lost
In the darkness of memories
You were for me
but only in my waking sleep
Bittersweet release
of love unworned
In darkness I weep
For newly sprung wings
Awkwardly I leap
From the precipice of my dreams
Caught between the wind
The stars and the sea
You are for me
In living dreams we meet
Generously forgetting
Love unworned
Being in your keep
at once I find peace

in the empty halls of my heart
cobwebs have grown
sunlight has not shown
but the memory of you
haunts the greying stones
where painful memories lie
waiting to be looked upon
once more

no more