Poems – ahorsealone

Truly

You begged for me the sun
And the heavens conspired
For a breath.

Love, hate, everything.
We are, through ourselves,
Faithfully through
Another.

songbirds heard
over warehouse fans…

unwelcome visitors
and we sing
we drink
love
and shiver in snow.

there was shame
where songbirds
needn’t know.

We slept in a white boat,
Beneath a moon
That spanned the sky.

Two children,
Whispering dreams,
Floating, by and by

the letters of my language
dipped in your lipstick
how a spirit is lost
in woodlands of your hair
a soul can not abandon
the temple of its birth

How many pilgrims
are lost for your skin?

Walk through gates of my being
As you did…
The woodland pastures.

I am an openness
In the calamity
Of a star.

To be of memory…
The starlight painted seas
Your eyes belonged to.

I remember then,
The hush of ocean.
Also the cost…
Of a moment.

Oh to be

As light as a bird

In the fields

Of gold…

Lighter than

The wind

Dancing

Secretively,

Beneath her wings…

Lost in

The memories

Of our Land.