now and why we search for great things not finding the package we sought but others wrapped in gray silence
Hic Jacet
WHERE the mist and the wonder awaits you, Where the silence keeps in the cool, There's a love that is yours for the having At the crest of a glittering jewel Where the earth and the sky join together, Where the heart and the mind are as one, There's a time and a place of completeness When the labor is finally Done
a sacred alliance
He was alone in the twilight, She was alone in a crowd, And they both paid with traveler's worry As much as was allowed, When the time came for resonant sorrow: There were souls and mouths to be fed -- As there eyes fixed fast to the worry, And the sky showed flame And dread
lacustrine laudanum
you were behind a screen, always. and I wrestled with demons, wondering -- what is this secret she hides? who is this person that she talks to in the hidden places, veiled within the lakes of your true desire
and you were my destiny
last night again dreams of diving in blue waters came clear and vivid and you were my destiny my comfort and warm delight and the light came through and the others moved in concert as though with music that i could not quite make out with my ears not yet ready.
between these two aches
all the joy in this trembles on a precipice between these two aches: memories that will not come, and those that come unbidden
within and nearby
sell these words for scrap, give it all away for love. these habits we form fall away without meaning, empty, without connection. on the verge of dawn, value is as always was -- within and nearby, distant and unreachable, unfathomable, and lost
the feeling hides
image come back now, amid the brokenness, but the feeling hides -- for what we see with the mind is only known to the heart
But Poorly
No one knows the heart. We see and judge, but poorly. Why do we do this? We want patterns to control: But the cycle carries us.