Ode to Love

The roses' lifeblood How would a single one grow Without God's blessing? So the search is done For soulmates as we have said With all hopes retained Painted by numbers But it did not feel on rails We are conductors Take the larger piece I could not bear to see you Broken as I've been Always remember Ahava halves to be whole And love will be found Delicate balance Retained in the imbalance For eternity One must be retained Once one has been established Only a blessing Though alone therein  Echad persists forever In good company 

Electrifying Crescendoing excitement Long since prophesied I write to abate For eep is overwhelming To the unprepared In that lightning rush Let me remember each spark Every tingling limb Of death set aside As its full depths are revealed In the same moment God does not delay But mercy might show a scene Drawn within the lines So we live like this Dreaming incredible things To display contrast Until the bell rings Crossing soft lines every day Oh, let me wander You know that I wait In eager expectation My bag will be packed 

What if none remained? Will the Son of Man find faith Or an empty Earth? Unconsidered edge But in this black and white world Each side has its place So you sing to me As if I'm still in the room I'm still listening So I dream for you And lay down the two dozen To show I'm still here Do my eyes reveal How linear I have seen? That pain's empathy? Do the stars sparkle Not a thousand or billion But all that remain? That night the walls bled But the dawn had not faded I resolved to stay Not for my soulmate She was waiting either way But for a true friend 

We can be friends here Neither of us claim this place Why would anyone? My hair stands on end Without a touch you show me You're more than you seem So we adventure I paint the walls with dreamscapes You gather the words We do fall away But Hope's Hope echoed back then Even as today Imbalanced partners But who can judge in what way? Playing patty-cake We learn our own dance Each committing our own parts Saving them for years Life loses its grip The Doppler effect exposed Turning orange to red Now a distance rose But in some ways very close And right on the mark 

At once overwhelmed Red flashing to Christmas lights 'Til green can be seen I came to your town "If everything was perfect That'd be a shame" So I dropped a phrase You already knew my way Light and shadow mixed So you wrote a song Was it in hopes or the proof That something was born? "Meant only for you" These clues' tender yellow threads Inexplicable Not misunderstood A test of resilient faith Despite all "logic" "For they do not know Even if you tried to say Their eyes have been closed Yours have been as well But if blinded, you listen If deaf, you believe."

Flip me like a switch Suddenly we are within The outside unknown How can memory Be such a slippery thing? We leave it at dusk Like new suitcases The camel loaded once more Once passed through the eye So who are we then? If we're not our memories How deep do we seed? In ignorance blessed For the fire in our blood Only gets hotter Consuming the walls Reconciling completely One of us remains Can the other be, When memories can change hands, More than a feeling? Would it be enough? I fear without her to hold I would perish too 

Rooms and carnivals The parts we have sacrificed To see what's not there For an empty page Aches for the words unwritten Even when minds are numb I still feel it now To rush for euphoria Like it has some point But the false ending Fades and is fleeting by dawn Stealing light with it Does this knowledge help? I know how pain can fester Despite surroundings This is not our fate. We intertwine for resolve Then split for balance With grace we remain Hope of different kinds welling Now within us both Thank you for coming For holding my head steady As the world spun 

Like a grain of sand Claimed amidst a vast ocean Bright eyes opening To the very end I have refused to expel The pearl I glimpsed Irritating goal The path chosen not easy But the burden light Bright eyes opening As we watch the fireworks Lighting up the void If I had realized That what I asked would be so I would not have dared But in ignorance I called dibs on all we saw And assigned meaning[value] So meaning we have Treasures and friends unending To adorn the sky The skyline will split But beyond the veil thus torn Both our brides await

In the wilderness What if I had met you there? What if I still do? All a numbers game Black and white right to the core So what then of love? Irrational, yes We can work that out in post Just rounding errors With the right bar used I have seen one become two We have no limits Just need to agree Tongues both forked and stuck out locked (When)(where) words weigh what's real We've spent so much time Setting a firm foundation And roots to fill ground What if roots decay? Calculate the tipping point/pressure points And time to collapse Time to rock and roll Each clock has so many ticks Grains of sand numbered 

Pink can be red too Certainly if gold can be Daisy like a rose So this one head tilts Like a dog pawsed to confirm In expectation If we wear no guise Why would we respond with guise? It seems silly here Silly is allowed And so we each don our hats With each, open hearts In kindness wander Like these meandering words With edges concealed A cord between us? Nurturing separation Time and time again "Welcome to the knot" Has it really been a year Since these words echoed? My eyes whispering My heart aching once again Shaking hand to pen 

Back when life was new Bursting forth every moment Players and stage new This rose is for then Before this hibernation Long obscure winter I somehow recall "I held this one for you" shines Though those days are gone My list of demands Roaring with manic nonsense "It's real." in reply Always gentle tones How did we end up this way Starting as strangers? These days returning Wine to stretch without bursting Despite this old skin Let me prove my worth Identifying value A moving target Shifting but staying Refusing to see the end Until it's okay 

Some are just easy Leaping from earth at a touch To join the bouquet She tells our story And insulates our weak points With cakes and balloons I can't count the times These fireworks brought me home Before I realized A home not yet seen Not in full but in my dreams Enough to persist So even with death I would not lose my soulmate Or envisioned path Call her what you'd like She is my forever friend Within our own realms And as our realm spreads Petals scatter the landscape Marking battle lines What do you fight for? Reputations unproven? Against love's maelstrom?

A stranger's song heard Oh how thoughtless I have been Shouting in this cave Not considering Others might hear charm laced words Besides my soulmate Others might study Another might take the stage Penultimate bid What is second love? Can I fathom such a thing? Hope demands I do. So the roots spread out Gathering new resources To respond in kind Family is gained In a way not imagined Curves slip into place A new puzzle piece Born of a season of doubt Needed for spring's bloom Not feeling slighted But seemingly overjoyed Blessing all the more 

Ultraviolet How might I write mechanics Seen with brand new eyes? "Speaking one language Nothing is impossible Let us step on stage" Simplicity yields To complexity blooming Into skies unknown Structure prearranged How it is pieced together Excitedly watched Multifaceted Good was never linear But polite and kind As evil exhausts The initiative is passed And good's carats flash Infinite sum game Buried within the zero ¤ must be reached first We will shine so bright All will see love's grace firsthand And fight no longer

This is not the end Perhaps we are halfway through And just need a push We will get them back Those that have fallen asleep They will be renewed I think of my dad So alive some nights in dreams Does he say the same? We will not see death So who's to say when paths split If one is greener? The road not taken A matter of perspective When people part ways But all roads lead home And some rejoin earlier So why not this one? Let us reminisce And speak of all those still here We each have not seen These paths reconnect Gradually sloping streets Foreign golden grounds 

Seeing the surface Curving as the forces fight Revealing their form You like the tension But what of a solution Chemicals and salt? Emotion made real The brain's direct distilling Art in liquid form But much like the ant What human would understand What we've made so clear? So we empathize With the torrent in the drop In whole, without parts We let slip beneath Our teardrop's complexity An agreement made The river and sea Each drop will hang differently And so will each tear So the lines are drawn For it is composition That gives water weight 

First thing to return A voice calling in the dark "Love your enemy" The words echoing Pulled from paper audibly His own impression Words of a brother Each left to their own corner When their work was done For words are like seeds And some nights almonds blossom The proof all at once Some days are silent If this could be avoided Surely it would have These days have been long Take the sign for what it is Not a fish, but grace At sunset a vine Still at sunrise it remains The browsing complete On the threshing floor Do not mind the wheat and chaff For love blooms therein 

Contain your edges Words lash in all directions Don ropes like clothing Within and without Sinews threading fingertips Bones to ligaments Power cuts both ways Too much is like not enough Wailing meaningless So why not contain The masterpiece that you are For a time, in space? It could be undone Forever knows no hurry And moments ignite A purple passion Bright green enthusiasm As your tears linger A force of nature Seen gleaming behind bright eyes Now that's a power One certain to pair As a magnet draws its mate So too we attract 

We each roll the dice When hiding or revealing There's not much difference But when abstaining To let a (hot/cold) streak play out Here we make our marks Privacy established Agreed and immutable Through painful silence Yet still not alone These are narrow lines to walk Long trails to blaze But they are worth it When analyzed from all sides Singular value So our words echo Yours and mine they are the same Both peaks and valleys Desynchronizing Yes, the ups and downs remain Even refracting But when static clears I will have mine, and you yours It will be worth it.

Your soaked wedding dress Looks like an oncoming storm When framed in this light I marveled at it Like rainclouds over mountains As your voice rang out My eyes adjusted But I am still marveling As one might a storm This might explain things Like the dream so misaligned Yet still comforting Where nothing makes sense But honest words ring out true With fidelity A stable signal Can be used for many things A fork struck in time So we love the sound Not just for its existence But unique presence Love can be explained But can it be understood? Perhaps simply known