Embody Poetry

There’s a glow beneath the surface

as the stars drift off to sleep,

greeting morning air with their slight kisses

light fading and transforming

into the deepest light of day…

warming the earth slowly as I can imagine your eyes

cracking with the break of dawn.

their blue pigments scattering across the sky,

falling between the clouds

like the missing pieces of my day you slowly fill back in,

relieving stress,

caressing away all my worries as your fingers

whisper words of music to my shivering skin.

there’s a magic much like a changing summer day

lying deep within you,

rushing through your veins

and you can’t even see the light you’re bringing…

the warmth you wrap around me,

and the calm your sweet breaths of air create….

the coloration your golden hair and blue eyes paint across each moment

and the laughter no one can subdue.

there’s a smile from this glow,

growing larger with each second,

needless to say

it won’t stay beneath the surface.

your silence clamors in my ear

breaks my being beat by missed beat

I find I can no longer hear at all

there are words bouncing between my ears,

dripping through the cracks in my smile

but silent they remain.

never audible, but perhaps visible.

my face hidden behind this page,

you won’t see the quivers in between syllables,

or the shy glances at the end of each phrase,

you’ll only see content,

simply stated

once this decoration stops,

this first stanza parts

and like the red sea my heart spills forth,

firm ground hits your feet

and soon you’ll be walking forward,

over,

on top of the statements I lay at your feet,

like a coat over a puddle…

you will never touch the instability beneath

you are too gracious,

you are too beautiful

and you are too far away

your thoughts are a mystery,

yet forever you remain in the archives of my thoughts,

never stashed away,

you lie in smoke from the end of a cigarette,

you dance in between the syllables of a movie characters perfect one-liner,

you smirk behind every bat symbol,

and cold waters at night shimmer to your likeness

you are embedded in the threads of this universe

constantly just over my shoulder,

I think I love you in that indie movie fashion.

I think.

and that’s where my words remain

in think

thinking

thought.

let’s harmonize with the waves bass tone

and lose our thoughts to home away from home

every morning I kiss the very edge of my coffee cup

like another’s lips pressed to mine,

a kiss to wake up to,

a sweetly caffeinated “good morning”

whispered against my tongue.

its a morning affair,

intimate

like pillow talk

or a gentle caress asking for one more kiss

one more

and one more

don’t leave my bed this morning,

no you don’t have to go to work,

lets stay in today,

mouth to mouth lets stay

but by then

my coffee cup is empty

its afternoon

I must leave my love.

He was cigarettes and sex walking…

his lips twisted like smoke around hers,

their bodies – perfect reflections,

they were pushing, pulling,

oral fixations,

addictions,

they were the definition of “my drug”,

obsessions.

they were a haze,

every breath was a burning sensation,

a realization

“I’m still alive”

slowly dying,

but who gives a fuck about that?

they were sweat personified,

dripping together

in a heat as their bodies formed the ideal “one”.

every movement - orgasmic,

a scream,

“I’m alive”

completely in this moment

who can deny a feeling like that?

they were life and death

all in one…

living so profoundly,

dying so quickly,

they were a fleeting wonder…

and he merely walked away.