Friday, March 8, 2024

To Emote

 

Consummate infatuation: I could never emote like you. To feel depth, to imbue with presence. Each moon breeding pash. 

The scents waft; sheer inebriation. Such phantom wings, where souls grow.

To love is to live, as sages insist. 

Such sagacity; such sullen sunshine. 

With dying to meet you, with living to run from you, a soul is confounded. 

The strength of those tresses; by value of broken skies.

Loving a thought of you, hating the death of time. 

Such passionate adventures, macro-prayers, silent annunciation, internal chants.

Tepee visions. Aircraft electricity. Looking unimpressed.

Mesmerized by shimmering eyebrows. Scintillating lips. A dear type of repulsion. 

Life as a paradox: tugged for pushed.

Cashmere clouds. Threshed sunshine. In needing excellence, in desiring perfection, in ruining existence. 

Strumming a Harp

By language we speak to audibility and coherence. To compose to feel understood, in spite of language applied. A person spends years misunde...