In this transparency

In this transparency 

Dreams floating to the top

The fist and open hand

The brush and planted crop

Reciprocated loves

The shipwrecks and the yacht

Silence escaping me

Hard breathing astronaut 

Feeling fear for others

Feeling fear for others

Sensing incoming storms

The Scream not emojis

Cruelty sporting norms

Freedom is not on scales

One for you, two for me

Equality is Just 

Unfair to disagree

As the path narrows more

As the path narrows more

The view becomes wider

Snow banks is still flooding 

Water hanging tighter

Have we frozen ourselves 

Thinking blocks of granite

Do we chisel or chuck

Sculpt Art or just damn it

A quiet conclusion

A quiet conclusion 

Private resolution 

Greater understanding 

A riddle solution 

Up from the reflection 

More pursuits with purpose

The trapeze without net

No clowns at the circus

These fugitive pigments

These fugitive pigments

The passions now pastures

The calm of retrospect 

The station of past blurs

The changes given time

The third eye cataract 

The vibrance of Egypt

Stripped in the artifact

My propeller compass

My propeller compass

So many lessons learned

Gut reactions gutted

Or delivered as earned

Wisdom not from aging

But assessing results

Weighing criticism

Affirming and insults

We made a secret with

We made a secret with

Ourselves we kept for years

Rejection came early

From both loved ones and peers

We learned to scan crowds for

Acceptance and safety

It began at the start

Conception not lately

Out of the past tense to

Out of the past tense to

Feel textures of today

A living memory

Still adding newer weigh

Love is in the moment

Does it have any tense

It is the Overwhelm

Heavy metal sixth sense

Where is the sigh we seek

Where is the sigh we seek

There was a summer once

Days of guarantees of

Freedom and joyous hunts

Years of jousting to get

Ahead but further from

A time that wasn’t made

But dearly all the sum

It was only a dream

It was only a dream

No one knows it is lost

Clouds die everyday if

Crystals can’t hold their frost

Not casting a shadow

Thin air like darkness stood

Future in the past tense

Was that wasn’t, dead would

Why are we walking on

Why are we walking on

Ukrainian eggshells 

Why do we not defend

Them against Russian swells

Are democracies just

Falling out of power

Not partners in lies like

A dictator coward 

Out of the brush into

Out of the brush into

The rocks and crevices 

A hearty flower blooms

Known as Whatever Is

Thriving and green with a

Touch of improbable

Sturdy and yet subtle

Rooting in obstacle

Narcissus is drinking

Narcissus is drinking

From their own lips below

But sipping of themselves 

Does not pull back the bow

Greatness needs inflating

Hot air balloon sucking

There lies the problem of

Their chaos and fucking

In a baby doll dress

In a baby doll dress

And thrift store red converse

On your gravel driveway

The two of us diverse

There with the peeling paint

We did not try to fix

Each other or explain

How we weren’t in the mix

Simplicity and grace

Simplicity and grace

Words and heart not apart

A summer drink to toast

In the winter of depart

All that remained was love

And an ask here and now

I wanted to share time

But did not control how

Moving ahead quickly

Moving ahead quickly

Landscape rushing in leaps

Little unknowns leading

To larger unknown deeps

Purpose is self-propel

No monarchs to be with

Habitat these worn shoes

Learning the living pith

I dream for your dreams and

I dream for your dreams and

Hope for your hopes as well

No invitation made

Our hearts are made to swell

We can wallow in woes

Share worries and wonder

Be happy for happy

Without stealing thunder

Not seeing the planets

Not seeing the planets

Saturn has moved along

Rainclouds have made their peace

Winds are no longer strong

Who makes wishes when dark

Clouds stall across the sky

The pendulum and gong

Action or standing by

A reminiscent rain

A reminiscent rain

The few lines memorized 

Of a conversation 

That cannot be revised

Soft rain recollections 

How we vowed but instead

Happiness is a choice

The words I left unsaid

In late days of tango

In late days of tango

Eyes still in their embrace

Understanding and full

Linear face to face

Yet we are both spinning

Because we are attune

Like the Earth turning and

At the same time the moon

The Overwhelm rising

The Overwhelm rising

Beethoven at the brim

The light bleaching from the

Medallion to the trim

The excess is waiting

Some distant thunder clap

Expectations heightened 

Topographical map

Learning to see the end

Learning to see the end

Never is forever

Promises broken bells

Guesses merely clever

Memories of us are 

Fish out of water eyes

Tomorrows are taken

But there’s still a clockwise

The manosphere is not

The manosphere is not

A sphere, it is a box

With crucifixion swords 

And a stockpile of rocks

Incels and yes, sellouts

Blaming women falsely

Man childs who won’t grow up

Mano, man oh, costly

The race continues on

The race continues on

Choosing to walk alone

Thoughts in a close corral 

One breath when glass is blown

Knowing when to resume

The common goal to run

Raindrop to waterfall 

Cotton fiber to spun

Further out in the primes

Further out in the primes

The stone skipping wider

Yet the centered main mast

Anchors without slider

Under night sky flowers

Celebration of time

The words to describe us

No synonym or rhyme

Not back after comma

Not back after comma

Nothing more can be said

Why add dead wood to trees

Or sew in more loose thread

A happiness knowing

Efforts ending at will

And no need for crying

When there’s no milk to spill

No pursuit in power

No pursuit in power

Yet fighting tangled weeds

No offspring to offer

But a sower of seeds

Captured by a moment

But not shackled to it

The freedom of a fall

Therefore opting to sit

In this vast openness

In this vast openness 

A morning moon still here

The stars no longer shine

The sky is blue and clear 

Lingering and hanging

Time pressing as it goes

Transparent and sliding

Reluctantly it knows