Feelings

• Sometimes it’s good to pause and write
• Of feelings that wake you in the night
• And make you feel so all alone,
• Seeking arms you’ll never own.
• Not yours to own, but only borrow-
• You’ll need to find new arms tomorrow.

• Feelings that wake you in the night
• Will take you to places of sheer delight.
• They bid you rest awhile and stay.
• And gratefully, you will obey.

Fires

• The look in your eyes said desire.
• I confused it, for a moment, with love.
• When kindling flames,
• It’s hard to distinguish
• Until it’s extinguished.

• Side by side,
• Desire diminished,
• I saw the dying embers of lust
• Fade into the darkness of sleep.
• No coals to keep,
• To re-ignite.
• When morning mist drenches
• The passions of night.

Terror

• The dream came and terror tore
• The strands of dreamless sleep.
• I woke in fear-
• Could sleep no more,
• Afraid of falling,
• Plunging deep
• Into the dark and alien abyss.
• And just as if,
• Knowing this,
• Your arms reached out with warm embrace
• Securing me in sheltered space.
• ‘Twas then I knew that I would stay
• Until the time you turn away.

• Then once again, so suddenly
• The haunting panic crept through me
• As all at once I did recall
• The fear that came before the fall.
• Fearing, at the break of day
• You would send me far away
• From arms that hold me in the night.
• In abject fear I hang on tight!
• For now, I’m safe from clenching fear.
• For now, my love, you hold me near.

• Mind races towards tomorrow.
• Though when it becomes today
• It remains for only hours
• Then slips into yesterday.

• Living in today
• I stumble
• Like a drunk on a tightrope
• In new shoes.
• The slip inevitable.
• Falling, failing,
• All the same.

• I fall and fail and flail at air.
• Arms reach out.
• Unfeathered wings
• Fingers grasping at the string
• Elastic gossamer
• Fragile stretching
• Thread unraveling
• I look down to see
• The net of yesterday’s memory.