This is hardly a poem

Where have you gone?
Do you even read what I write anymore
you used
to tell me
when you liked one,

Now I don't know
if you care
or if you just don't like it

You fell in love with
the idea of being with me
and sometimes
i feel like
you neglect the reality
the immediacy.

I miss when you wanted to impress me
not because you needed to
but because it showed you care

Where has the romance gone?
We've been together a year
not a decade.

The present is the foundation
of the future
a necessary evil
of the ideal

I miss the excitement in your eyes
replaced by
a dreamers gleam

I love you so much
Today
this second
this immediate moment

And I feel like you love me
in the future.

The corner

I can see nothing
from my corner
but I see all too well


Talent
without inspiration
Experience
without wisdom
Voices with hollow opinions
Questions
without answers


Sad, pathetic
normal people
smiling without joy
planning without acting
Working to no end
for no end
a vacation
a dog bone
a sad play.

A reality

My corner
hides my eyes from the lie
while my ears pick up the reality.

And from my corner
I hide
from it.

You are with me when the dogs bark at each other

A grinding of dry soil
a ping of chain link
fencing
Warm air, still air
two dogs bark
and speak to each other
The end of a street, the entrance to
a desert
Just myself
and the Creator

And it all made sense
The loneliness which used
to be in my heart is
no longer
A despair which felt as hot and unmoving
as this night
is gone
and I can be alone and hear silence
not my own thoughts

Life if unforgiving
that is why we come together
that is why i searched
and searched
and found
the one who never left my side

It was you
who I wanted
It was you
who I desired
and still it is you
who is with me
when I used to be without

I cannot wrestle with the angel
for it has already struck
me lame

You have made me settled
you have given me peace
in the most peaceful settings
And though you may think I never wanted you

I chose you

I chose you to be my companion
to be my stability in quake
to be my solace
from everyone else

You are the shimmering lights in the valley below
the warmth emanating from the ground
you are the shadow of mountains
and the shine of waning moon

You are the howls of desert fauna
you are my muse
for now and forever
You and I
will never be away from each other as long as both our heels
touch the solid of the Earth
and I suspect,
(once we are beneath it)
then as well

We are two specks of dust
in a sea of dunes
at the mercy
of wind
and shake
and time
and flood
But we will always track
along side one another

You are the beauty of this age and the next
and you are
mine.

Love incarnate