Modern Faith

A question lingers

As it shouldn't.

A beautiful widow

Whose knotted hair

Could unwind time

And cast us

To stone,

Of alabaster bone,

and millennia later

ghosts walk out of those 

remnants of us,

and back into the crowd

to unlearn the instinct

to save

so chips may fall

where they may

and this is our method

of faith.

Conversation

I should master

The demons in me.

I should not feel

Any envy.

I should be higher

Than I have been.

How i hate you,

Perfection.

You give me

Impossible heights

To strive for;

Things I'd die for,

And you'd actually

Take my life for;

Life is bigger

Than my record,

Than my life-stream

Broadcasting

the light that your moments send me,

You give to me,

I take and bless them

In my dreams,

I kiss your bird beings

I breathe into

Your worms through

Skin and earth

I give eggs

And break birth

And make love

Sweeten over time

And the bread rise

And tides turn into

Cloud's wombs

And back to you

And back to you

The song would pull you

Take you through

All that your old soul

Ever knew

All that you wished

Of life

Tied there

Anchored there

In your crimson heart

Upon the ink of time

For you to take and swim in

Dance upon

Write with your steps

That song

That invisible truth

We shall not speak

But be

Uniquely

Silently

The flowing forces

These channels

Our tributaries

And the natives 

That wait upon their shores.

We twinkle

Pulsating dream

D/c current light

Strobe to my kind

Hope to my heart

Love diamonds

Fall upon my red mind

Meaning in it

I made you

Don't hate me

We painted with

Love

The canvass was running

Toward something

Distant

Retreating into

Nothing

But i knew, i knew

There was something

I disappeared 

And saw that law

Twist around me

Like the crown,

Like a horn,

Like the seas rubbing

Shores to new shape.

I'm in the mist, maybe,

i die here

You die there

We all die,

Everywhere

All the time

So me here

Is a distant moment

Dug deep here

Dug from within me

Here

This dirt

These broken

Scentless words

They heap up

And say something

i think

In the end

They say something.

Guiltless Dream

Every man

Has his pain

Life already drove

Mankind out the cave

Out the cranium

Outer space

A million ways

You can take 

To the future

You could go

Your own pace

But every man

Is afraid

It's a jungle

Through time

Even spaces

Where it's paved

So when it comes

To nature

I'ma dance

I'ma sing

I'ma live life

As if it were

A guiltless dream.

Tough Love

1. 

It'll be many moons

Before i learn

To love you.

Sometimes I'm lost;

Sometimes

I know it all.

As i go about

My business

i think about you;

When i dream

i do dream

Of you.

2.

Here we are

Don't let the magic

Confound you;

Trust in love

With all your are

Nit just your heart

Because

To give all

Of yourself

To find

And know well

What you can give

And to have the heart

When all

Either turn their back

Or hit

With all their might:

That's just life

Trying to teach you.

Love has to to be

Tougher than hate.

That's just the family

Trying to make you

Strong enough

For this path

That you're on

So take

Our love with all

You know.

Go be great

But don't forget

That it was love

That made you grow.

Life is a strange situation

When you're questioning

The ways of man;

Thoughts that lead you

To depressions,

Back into the caves

We went.

Isolated, 

A new type to darkness

A bad surprise

To buy time

To give us all

The space and time

To reorganize

Wrong and right

Are relative worlds and words.

We're all so right

And so irrelevant, too,

So don't your cry

If no one 

Wants to hear you

There's a voice inside

And an ear that

Will always listen

It's all in you

When you can't find it

Anywhere else.

It's all in you

When you're drowning

And shouting for help

But no one comes;

It's the hardest lesson

You'll learn

From where love comes

It is given

And it must be earned.

Painting

What comes

From the chamber

Of colors

A child can find

His dream there

In that moment

He can reach anything

Differences

Indian walks

Land and is held

Upon earth

Less by gravity

Than by his

Quantum love which is 

Tangled energetically

Like roots

In a holy place.

What we see is what

We get

He says.

Where i love

You rape.

When I give

You take.

When I wake

Nature embraces me

And gives me 

The sacred fruit

Of life,

I live

At the pace of paradise.

When you wake

The dream ends

And you have made

Shame

Of the truth of life.

You race toward

A better future

With all your might.

You've bent time

Studied the light

But your men fear

To be the light

Nude in it

Fearless in the infinite

Know it is 

In every finite thing

Every moment

And detail of life

Woven by a thread

Of mind and heart

In space

Which limits the infinite

To lines

And terms we can define.

Sewing into time

That crimson river

Of love and sacrifice

That stoic gaze

Eternal peace

In the abyss

Hearing the spirits

Believing in and chasing

Rabbits for the feast

To return with a bounty

So that entire armies

Can eat.

This is warrior you

As it is warrior me

And yet we do 

What we must

So frighteningly differently.

These poles do lead

To lightning and storms:

Tempest of both

Nature and the soul;

That great symmetry

Of a balanced moment

In cosmic time

Governing like a blind

And just goddess --

Child, no doubt,

Of a greater, more perfect being

Manifest all around me

All around you.

Why is it

We perceive, as we do,

So differently?