The Air is Good

Unexpected love

You are in my touch

And your beauty comforts the

Wrong in me

I’m underneath broken moonlight

Where peaceful prayers

Fill my heart

The arms of the clouds

Weave through the jungle in my mind

And the passengers with requests vacate

Looking for the truth

The weakness I show

Lives in the stones that line my

Rivers edge

Drenched in the water

My naked heart

Screams for 

when the sun kissed the night

The claws of gold

Break the flesh

First light says goodnight

Last night was first light

And last light went calling

Its broken cry filled the night

Its song caught in the wind

Light bled from us

As the dawn bird

Called in the night

Our dreams

Caught in the light

A yellow glow flowed from us

As daylight returned to the night

We are no longer held captive

Held captive by first night

to fly

Little black butterfly

You wait inside of me

Resting on my goodness

My heart explodes with

Ripped up pages of thought

And desire for you

But your heart won’t

Catch my breakages

Little black butterfly

You wait inside of me

Wanting more form me

Wanting for me

Wanting

love

Love

Love is

            Love is swallowed like a sin

            That tastes like savage storms

            Love is a hostile condition

            That ignores touch and comfort

            Love won’t request your desire

            Or call for your company

            And love won’t beg for forgiveness

            Because love has a mouth

            That is empty

            Love will be the last to leave

            Lingering in dark corners

            Love is never complete

            And love won’t complete you

            Love won’t let you love

            Or forgive

            Or forget

            Because love will rip life from your grasp

            Without question or reason

            Love will feed on your attention

            Desiring a waveless heart beat

            Turning it into a place full of mess

            Love is a panicked beast

            That will gorge on your soul

            Immobilising

            The questioning in your mind

Love is

Love 

What I Want

Deep green valleys

Whisper damp secrets

To jump from shade to shadow

Freedom is my passenger

Pushing me towards sunsets

That clutch onto the hand of darkness

Freedom wants to go to places

I have never been

Where speckled stones

Pave out paths

And the warmth of the sun

Will wander with our courage

Freedom has woven me a scarf

Blowing rainbow threads

That drape around my throat

Colours get caught in my gaps

Where sunlight breaks

Freedom waits with me

Freedom waits

Dimly sensed thought

We sit beneath the woody sky

Watching the light slowly fade

The flowing golden thread

Drifts towards the night

And my brother stands

Sharing whispers of

Moving mountains

That he can’t shift

Dusty flames dance

Before us

And we spin blue bottles

Sending shards of darkness

Into the winters breath

And flickers of light into our

Shivering hearts

We wait for the cracks to open

And the first cleansing

To wash

Away the lingering dream

Reflections of your spring

I see jasmine blossom

In the nape of your neck

Its buds bursting open

Like you have woken spring

It creeps choking your spine

Tangling round your waist

And gropes your shoulder

I taste your luscious nectar

Drowning me with sweetness

I am drunk on you

I smell your scent

In each breath you exhale

I fold into your slow rhythm

I want to inhale all of you

So I too become spring