Lower, and lower
You sunk
Take a sniff of the skunk.
Blood pumps,
Heart races,
Warm embraces,
From both sides.
Feel the angel kiss your eye,
Welcoming breaths
Icy sighs.
Free.
Float.
Fly.
One more light
And then you're high.

trapped,
tethered,
tied.
an unspoken bond between us and fate,
reality and mind.
uncertainty like an eternal fog,
but forever is only so long.

look at the stream of life, the
streaming of consciousness,
each in their own contained,
Untouchable
bubble. their private world, heading
in one direction, toward

One destination.

yet separate, disparate, diverging,
Disassociating. Why is this? as
machines show no recognition, so
too, is the car’s shell aptly
assumed; purposeful, intent, yet is this
humanity?

oh but there is not time to
Stop. to think reflect muse wonder for,
the stream continues, rushing…
flashing… by, in a droop, a mere
flutter,
of the eye. is this an

Escape?

the final great escape? or just
Life
as we know it.

What if I told you I love you?
What if the person inside me
   saw the person inside you
   and told you you were becoming
   what you were meant to be?
Don't look into that shattered mirror again
It's only showing the outside man.
Come
Hold me from behind
Put your arms around me
Your hand in my trembling hand,
  dark eyes cover blue eyes
Come try a glass of my perspective.
If you could see deep into your cobwebbed soul
Dare to step on broken pavement,
I would tell you fear is nothing but a barrier,
  and you already know how to steeple.
Look
At your body on the table.
Open your ears to His fountain
Let me move into your scars and shine into your stars
Let it melt all the way,
  haven't I told you I love the taste of chocolate?
Now we're going to go underground
  test out your roots
  knock on your core
  count the rings of your forgiven sorrow
You know that your strength is unknown,
   your enemy your own
Handsome hand
Trace the music and let Him free your impoverished soul.
Can I hold the dusty forbidden key?
Let your weight fall upon me
   there's more than me holding you up
Follow my gaze
Don't turn away
For what if I told you
  I only flutter for you
What if I told you you already know how to dance
  our bodies in rhyme
  our minds in time
 Colors bleed from me to you,
Storms may pursue.
But what if I told you
  I've grown up right next to you?
  that I love your color blue
Yes I heard you when you told me
  I drive you crazy and asked "can I keep you?"
Check your back pocket.
   this is the receipt.
For I told you I'm holding hands with a man
  and he's inside of you
I named him Beautiful.