breach

Crippling

To me in a way that seems so unfamiliar

I want to reach out

Say the words correctly

Palatably.

Overcome

Into scenes and spectra

Where the tears rise up in me

Knowing how alone I am

Holding another,

Trying to overcome their loss

Realizing

We are all of factions

That confirm some type of thing

We are all trying to move forward

In simple steps and words

Grow

Over these wounds

Heal the places that hurt

Where the future is magnificent

As long as we are in it.

the Smell of Morning

You remember the time…

We walked through the desert

As we bounded through the sand

You, looking delicious, with your flawless

eyes locked on me

as we talked of training horses

and obsession of one another

The rising sun a fluorescent hallucination

On that freezing morning

We kissed for the first time in the New Year

Under that magnificent magenta sky—

Where the carnage of our lives melts away

To the experience we are supposed to have—

In the smell of morning

Something I have never sensed—

Before you.