Steadfast

I will not walk down the path,
the world desires me to walk on.
Instead, the path I travel
may not be easy nor safe,
but it was the path
I was chosen to overcome.

(c) 12/30/2012

Ambidextrous

My practical side questions the validity of my reasoning,

the sanity of my emotions.  It wants weights and measures,

proof and subsistence. 

Yet the lover in me looks for the truth in his eyes,

the desire in his kiss, the passion in his heart, 

the pleasure in his smile. 

Yet, if we wish to believe in the fortitude of love, 

we must love without insecurity. 

(c) 12/24/2012

Ode to the Day

I awoke from madness today

and watched as the sun rose like a blushing maiden

from a cool dip in the translucent sapphire sea.

An angel of light that lifted ever higher

perched on the tip of a cloud until she

gently fell back to earth to her midnight

embrace.  I watched as the cosmos

formed and the stars danced through

eternity like nuptials.  I watched until

shooting stars struck like Cupid's arrows

in my morose heart and I awoke again

for the second time today, simply amazed. 

© 08/21/2011

Fragile

I built my dreams around you;

beam by beam.

I thatched a roof over our heads,

and waited out the storms. 

I lived for the starlight nights

for you were mine and I was yours.

But the seasons have changed and

summer is gone, I shiver from the cold.

Now, I toil and sweat planting seeds

in the garden and water them well, but  I 

fear the coming of the desert sun

will turn the tendrils from green to gold.

© 03/26/2010