Harold’s Song Revisited

Love echoes
Through space and time
Meeting me here from yesterday
With the softened laughter and sun shadows
Of who I was and am
A more gentle mirror
For my soul’s daydream
Floating memories
Like dandelion tufts
In the peaceful air
Of my heart’s quiet park
Where I go to remember
The joys I took for granted
And the moments
And people
Who filled my life
With life

@10.21.2017 ebn

Sun shadow

too far ahead kills moments
the tastes I crave
licking dew from unopened petals
before noon

may I swim in your puddles
the sun won’t spare
know the softness of butterfly wings
while its calm

eye can love you tenderly
in just one breath, and you will see
that we can dance like spiders do
a delicate ballet for two

don’t hesitate
relax and drift into me
don’t pull back
let the breeze of my love set you free

taste my lips
like rain drops upon your mouth
feel my warmth
like the comforter soft on your bed

if we both were blind
and could not speak
would our fingers tremble
what would we remember

when it’s time to catch your breath
let the sun sweep away the dream
and with a smiling heart
rise refreshed, as the memory fades away

©08.27.2017

The dead

The dead
Are like fallen trees
Old memories
A thousand leaves
That used to filter the sun

Etched in the hearts of souls
Who drank from the bowls
Of laughter and song

The dead
Are like water
We used to drink
Bathe in
Play in
Now gone somewhere
In our atmosphere

©07.01.2017 ebn

Open

Yawn
Scraping off the crud of sleep
Heart punching through my dreams
Focus blinding
Sunshine, brilliant minded
The universe exploding
Conscious climbing

Awake
Body snatched
From the sucking mud
Of watered graves
Thoughts swimming to the surface
Desperate to fly
The prayers of slaves

The breeze
A thousand whispers
Angel sighs
Dead weight lost to lullabies

Jump
To catch my breath
Above the rest
And pass the test
Of nothingness

Pressing seeds
In the memories of the fallen
Vines crawling out of my ears
Past, present, and future tears
Tattooing my tongue
With the melodies of life
Singing being
Through my smiling eyes

©07.01.2017 ebn

Dance of the dead

I drowned my soul
From giving hands
That offered me
An endless cup

And laughed
While I swam recklessly
Sinking deep
Beneath what’s up

Turned upside down
I found my feet
My head throbbing
Swollen with blood

And comatose
I lost my breath
And dreamed a nightmare
In the flood

Out of my mind
I lost myself
And lent myself
To be abused

By carcasses
Most beautiful
Who lured with lust
This fool confused

And when the morning
Cut my eyes
Revealing what I left
To waste

I gathered
What was left of me
Ashamed to still need
One more taste

©06.29.2017 ebn

Our last date

I knocked over my glass
Leaning back to far
And spilled my wine
Laughing too hard
At a joke that wasn’t that funny
Just to get a better look
At that girl in my periphery
Walking away from me

And would have gotten away with it
Had you not seen me
Bite my lip
And break my eyebrow
When you shot me that
“What’s wrong with you?” look
And realized I was salivating
After a plate I wish I had for dinner

©06.28.2017 ebn

You were one of those neon signs

You were one of those neon signs
Meant to catch my eye
A bad color
Exciting for its taboo
And its enticing familiarity

And I spoke to you
Like a snake in a tree
Words slipping off of my tongue
And into your ear

Dying there
But staining, too
And that bad color
Flattered you

You blushed
Like some drunken star
Leaving streaks across your face
Or did I smack you
While you laughed?

The lust was mechanical
My passion never finding its footing
Missing gears and
Stripping itself bare
While I sweated some clear stuff
Not blood

Breathing hard
To be satisfied
Though there was no rhythm in you
Your manikin body
Simply complied

And though it was consensual
It still felt like rape
Like I had stolen something
From myself
In exchange for nothing

©06.28.2017 ebn