 In stillness I pondered from what storm had you emerged? Your crystalline face a reminder of what can be made when struggle falls in love with hope, when pain loses itself in possibility, when brokenness wraps its arms around itself. Staring through my nakedness you saw what could never be clothed, what I had never been willing to undress. Your love was relentless scooping up the buried pieces broken in my fight to defy essential wholeness and the heart it was made to win.
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 In my world
I wake up into dreams And fall asleep into reality I love what I can see And am loved by what I can’t In my world I am undone by the Irrefutable And am made whole by the Indescribable I am what is inconceivable Yet conceive what is Unbelievable In my world I speak by becoming silent And listen by talking to the heart I pray by forgetting I'm praying And remember we shall never be apart  Buried in the leaves
Fallen I hid my true colors Still green and full of life I breathed in perpetual Spring While shriveled cynicism And morbid moribunds Covered me with their decaying ways Wonder I did What the evergreen must Think When the air becomes Thick With the changing of the guard Doubt surely Must bleed through his Bark And drip on receding Roots Eroding the faith Once unwavering In the love of his Creator Who promised the wind Would one day come And paint sky between the trees So light could Wake the fallen Buried in the leaves  You know when you’ve read a poem
Not by its questionable rhyme Nor its disdain for punctuation And complete disregard for time Not by its love for the ordinary Nor its refusal to stay on the page Not by its willingness to hold you While you break free from Maya’s cage Not by its rare discernment Nor its way for making you think Not by its need to meet you While your soul steps out to drink You know when you've read a poem When you have no wish to speak For the words that came upon you Said what your heart told you last week  The day I fell in love with
You You told me we could just Be friends The next morning I woke up For you To tell you that was all I Needed The night I lost my heart in You You told me yours worked just as well The next morning I woke up With you To tell you that I was still Alive The day I left my life for You You told me you were 3 Steps ahead The next morning I woke up To you To tell you that we hadn't Made it out of bed The night I stared into your Divine creation You told me it was made From colored pencils The next morning I woke up In you To tell you that my world Was just rainbows I walked this life, without Knowing your smile For too many breathes, and Too manymiles I waited for you, not Knowing you'd be My life, my heart, my love's Destiny  You didn't deserve to be listened to
But I did anyway You didn't deserve to take my time But I gave it to you anyway You didn't deserve to have my patience But you received it anyway We crawl out of dark places To meet the rising sun To feel that, indeed We do not need to crawl Back Awash in a world of humility Tolerance Generosity Compassion Some find the light And shower with God's Grace While others crawl back Into that deep dark place An internal hell That acts as a sanctuary From the truth That love will always Win  If I told you
I knew where these words Came from You would either call me a liar Or God Or someone lying about God If I told you I knew where to find a poet Who took credit for her stanzas You would either call me a liar Or God Or someone lying about poets I f I told you Where to find the lines That played by different rules You would either call me a poet Or God Or someone lying about the difference  I wrote with you within my heart
Before I knew yours was beating I wept with you within my tears Before I knew you could feel them I dreamt with you between my wakes Before I knew I’d find you there I broke with you within my Fears Before I knew you saw the Pieces I walked with you between My steps Before I knew it was the path To you I prayed with you between My breathes Before I knew that you could Answer I loved with you within my Being Before I knew you’d love it so I was with you within the all Before I knew you’d be there too  The garden with no gate
Waits for us to enter Two Travelers Headed towards the City of Light With no other place to stay Accused for our beliefs Uncertainty drenching our clothes Two Flames Speaking for the sake of life Knowing no other way Dancing in the moonlight While the fireflies blow us Kisses Two souls Forgetting the fear of judgment With Nothing more to say Accepting the purposelessness Along wth the duties of the doing Two children Skipping to the stories of the youthful For there was no where else to play The garden with no gate Waits for us to enter Two breaths Passing peacefully into the unknowable For it is there, where we Come To pray  My concrete feet
Stumble under the life Looking for green Beyond the steel in sight Humbled by storefronts Selling me their goods I wonder to myself Where are my woods? Having walked into the city With its parallel streets Can I find an escape From the rush hour fleets? Continuing I step Over man made lies My heart taking over For my worn out eyes Feeling the warmth From a corner come near Easing the stumble Into a fall without fear For my heart had seen Where my soul could land In the arms of a church With strenght to stand Having found an oasis To water and pray No matter the village Nor time of day So remmber your choice And find your peace For He shines on metal And glistens to cease The worries in your mind Ready to come home To the City of Light Where all hearts shall roam |