11292011

yesterday

and today

and tomorrow

new intentions

like many before

like many to come

touched

by the hope they will not falter

by the hope they will not shatter

by the hope they will not be compromised

setting new priorities

yet knowing the truth

and knowing

yet still denying

11272011

on this glimmering night of late november

while you undress yourself with ceremony

my eyes lock upon the undressing of the sky

her breasts undulating in quiet certainty

(radiating in their own breathless awakening)

her sex pulsing in rushed request

and i glimpse how you stretch out your naked body

to receive showers of falling energy

falling

from me

falling

slowly

falling

like the suddenness of nightfall

falls

and leaves you howling with elation

while i flaunt my nudity

and we grasp for more heat

and we dance

naked as wild beasts

beneath the edifice of undressed night

and how she reclines above us so shamelessly!

and how we whimper

and shimmer beneath her lust

our legs prized open with hunger

our eyes clasped shut with excess!

11192011

he said,

you’re a beautiful woman.

i said,

i know.

in the face of ignorance,

arrogance.

11162011

i brought her flowers.

i held them out

as if making an offering,

an offering of… support,

where arms could not be found.

i bit my tongue

for fear of saying

the words that sang my heart.

i withheld warmth

and delivered earth

and hoped the gift would suffice,

while knowing

it would never do

for me.

it would never.