love Bytes

LOVE BYTES

1.

We have

met before

you recall

that day

you felt

lava

from loins

to brain

to toes

for no

reason

That was me

AMOR HEREOS

Love

sickness

Sometimes you want

to drink something

to drive you totally mad

to make

it happen

CIRCLES

Tell me the end

tell me now at the start –

how will you leave me

what art will you use

to refuse the last fusion,

to peel us apart

Tell me the end

how will you persuade me

to ease the cleaving

What art will you use

to carve me from your heart

to peel us apart

Give

l

Give

ess than you get

Set

that as your goal

and you’ll never lose

anything

of yourself

anything

but love.

Don’t you wonder

where it comes from

don’t you

wonder

why it’s here

When my voice

fills up the room

don’t you wonder

what you hear

Don’t you wonder

where it’s going

don’t you

wonder

why you’re here

When my voice

fills up the room

don’t you wonder

what you fear?

black wine

whose stains

remain

forever on the tongue

– that night

pains my mouth

with memory

black

wine

SWEET

How sweet of you to notice

my agony, my dear, how

kind of you to inquire again.

We will leave it

at that, of course.

Even I

have my

limit

of pain.

BLUES

Blues in the background like an old friend

or the guard in the prison you’d promised

you’d never go back to.  Blues in the background

in this inappropriate elegant salon, and

everyone is talking money and drinking this year’s

right wine.  Only me sitting sullenly in a corner,

refusing to walk out the cell’s open door

discussing my heart with Dinah as if

nobody else in the room had ever felt it –

that beat in the background that controls

our torpid torrid life.

Evil night

leaving me

with such dreams

a weave of loss

and light

softness

that blinds

my eyes

evil

night

I want to hear it again

what you said then

about always

loving me

just for the memory

I want to hear it

even though I know that

we never will lie

together

until we die.

Those sleepless nights –

when I am naked and undesiring

of anything but delight:

life, felt in the bone –

I think of you,

shuddering through narrow

acute experiences,

terrified –

of what I watch for

all night

BEYOND DESPAIR

I love you so—-

And there you go

Life is free

living beyond despair

as if you care