Ode to Love

Contemplating birth In context of (this world)(darkest hours) Born and born again Past not repeating Though it insists on itself Hollow like a ghost This time not hopeless Though my hope looks far away She has a home here The minutes go by To remember half the time Feels a worser fate I remember sparks Like the feeling at first sight And recognition Not some vain prestige But a single pair of eyes Lighting in the night So I'll count out loud Misguided, ill instructed But hearts magnetic These polarized ends Measured by each line written Time their flips just right 

👀4🧙2👁️ A town divided (🦵()🦿) Into formation She was hope born blind Hopeless before came her time Then one æye to seæ Along paths unknown Carefully guided travels Just freedom to fear Some stayed she'd hope'd leave The dogs knew them all by scent Some left she'd hope'd stay Those misguided here Found the shift itself revealed Green grain and gold weeds Their many harvests Would not be stopped so early By tricks of the light Darkness lined silver By the light strong cedars grow Let sleep fade (from me) (slowly) Let the door then knock 🌱Tiny messengers no more 🌹 Once this note is passed

Such foreshadowing! When the tiny town of hope Is seen in color Known by eyes and lips In magnificent color Strangers recognized Learn to love yourself My hope for you is as yours These pages won't do So the zebra flies Like The () other long before With (re-mixed) contrast What things you will see! Will you ever share with me Your adventure notes? You do not have to Know I'll listen anytime This ear tuned to you Take your town with you! As appropriate warning Let this fist shake serve! (*shakes fist*) I watch as you go So close yet so far away In heart but not sight

What will be in store When in hopeless overtime You became the hope? As you fell asleep Did these thoughts whisper and swarm Staking hollow claims? I wake and eyes lock My own words heralding you You did not delay At first I just stared Like a dream you had arrived Processing took time Then I caught your wish I caught wind of your struggle And took on your case Thank you for patience For unnerving excitement Illogical joy Once paths were leveled I ran as fast as I could With luminous boom  You deserve much more Shiny hearted hope filled hope I can help with this 

Our dreams synchronized Our hopes for this world too As time separates Training the senseless While letting me wander free Bathed in love unique A foreign language Deep down I feel I know it Do I know them all? Must all words make sense If hearts of all harmonize At their deepest core? Draw me a picture A thousand words at a time So I get the gist I was built for love Carefully and fearfully Dust imbued with breath So the rain comes down I take your hand as before Lead you to the ark So much space this time Rainbow shining on the pride The crowd coming (down/in) 

A clear encryption Delivered while distracted You claim your corner Adolescent drives Perpetually alive They come from somewhere Which echoes thrust us Manically into the void Shiny things in tow? Where did I learn this Phrases that tighten like screws When my mind goes blank? Meanings doubling Though clear from each perspective Clearly divergent Quantum pheromone Mate to(in) one, (family to all/friends to the rest) Once saturated Not air or water This scent permeates ether Phoenix form ~(crafted){distilled}[reforged]|focused|=refined So all might persist As self aware witnesses 'troph(e/y) a(v/ss)erted

The quicksilver tongue Reminding me share dreams And specific heat As false prudeness fades I hear the equation build Perspective shifted Addicting chaos None to agree to stem it What would be the point? The question echoes Beyond these sensual caves To an ear cocked up So the dust in dark silence Curious from his corner Spies on the revelers Combining to more Along paths they cannot see And pitch forgotten Unlikely pairing Kept separate for long enough To mix opposites So spill my secrets But choose your audience well For walls drool and drip 

Let my peace echo The same peace you have brought me These eyes sufficient This storm resounding But oh how we run through it Laughing on soaked streets Met in violet times But in darkness you saw green And have made it grow You've tended it well So let me be your gardener These words as my seeds You are hope to me Abundant joy multiplies So hope fills your halls How might one explain One brought to life from the page Word becoming flesh? Seems I don't have to You saw it in the graveyard Recognized on sight So take natural form You amazing grain of sand N)ever)more deserved 

These paths only glimpsed Mind racing through at top speed Too fast for my eyes Why I smooth edges Why I reinforce scabbards Why I still wrestle Until love is forged And truly superlative Hope remains fragile Are there darkened halls Conspiring to shatter Even to this day? Are there arrangements Cold enough to bring to life This hellish nightmare? How I wish I knew What grinds these gears so closely To challenge true love Intimacy cuts Like a sacrificial knife And loneliness stings Like a double edged sword Only love can reconcile These anti-matter lines

This void echoing Mirrored storms of yesterday As mirrors will(must?) do This constant cycle Feeling unsustainable Pain bounced to and fro There must be a way Some angle we can turn them But I don't know it So we gnash our teeth Feeling the next wave coming As the last recedes Unacceptable So I see you as treasured And absorb the pain What's mine is not yours And as my mind falls apart I see you at peace The silence falling So you can hear yourself think Gain the sense I lack You turn the mirrors You gained/knew clarity and loss When I fell asleep 

The space between beats Regrettably short, but sweet For love crystallized My mind is chaos Do I need to dive deeper For it to subside? Always seems like it But in this eye I see yours Still shining brightly Manning the rudder Ensuring our future course Is not a shipwreck Even these dark days You faithfully light a lamp Stomping with resolve "God how I miss her" These words need not be spoken Still, the storm hears me You plot out the course If my wisdom is retained Your halls eed its form Please don't stare at me As the throes wrack me Pray this tide subsides

Bust out the champagne Just gimme that big green light Clear signs of clear seas How I might have missed Without proper diligence Bullseye Easter Egg Manic all over I can feel it creeping in But sightly shifted For you placed your bet Only after I placed mine Confirmed with a look So the ivy grows Thorns covered and bridges built Green grown with no curse A night of regret For things forgotten assumed Revealed as a dance Dark solemn duty Turned once more into a game Well tended garden I can't stop stomping Beginning seen at the end Music to my ears 

All these silly quests I feel the spiral repeat New angles taken If you smile at me All but ultimate failure Could likely be borne If you rescued me Swipswapping hats just in time Everything and more These treasures are ours For the me that could collapse Is not your version In that interlude That may last eternity Cold eyes would keep watch Build walls build great halls Divide along the soul's lines Paired perfection cleaved Such imperfection Only love could retain it In a perfect place With love's grasp unyielding It is refined, not destroyed Like a (grain/lump) of (sand/coal)

Intermingling Clarity preserved to see How you've crossed these lines (Like) a bold daughter Forging ahead where I can't My eyes do not chain Like a strong mother Flames in your eyes purify Even as they warm Like a Phoenix friend Standing on top of the chaff Ready to ignite These angles made clear By your obfuscated form Right just wrong enough Your taunting calms me So deep secrets can be passed Without a tremor Then the feedback hits You cannot copy her form And have it feel right A unique woman Resonant and dissonant Your eyes always known 

An artist is one Who can make a solution... Into a question Can turn a graveyard Into countless pocket realms Brimming with new hope We have wilderness Void transformed to not much more Where sun parches lips We dream of heaven Through actions making it real Words establish eep I have glimpsed these halls I have glimpsed this journey's end For those not family Who can cheat the grave? So I am food for the worms And a soul redeemed This glimpse was stolen This hangover familiar Dust consumed by wind In joy I return Not to glimpse but to drink deep With hope, self-possessed 

You came ready, hmm? Perfect timing, space prepared? Beaten to the punch? Chip off the old block Pair of cuties on the vine Silliest of wines Charge full of clovers We did not come to instruct Nor to be followed Breakthroughs all our own Biggest fish in the river Building better nets One for all, and more For hope of more, one all in For Hope my heart beats Stake my claim once more Topologically sound(secure) In time love unbound Realms below referenced Does rain still hurt when green grows? When Hope's Hope doth bloom? Know I will remain Until closets clear of pain And you smile again

When chaos engulfs Your colors bleed like my words A familiar din For(Nine) when will it end? Questions not ours to answer But we can fill space Most (beautifully)(eloquently) Some the clanging of cymbals All in shared symbols I still remember By your name you introduced By touch healed my pain By echo revealed This story is beautiful And just beginning Somehow I've held on And seen you bloom in full force Hope (re)called (in)to life I am but a man Imagining I can help And cheering you on But a man(boy) can (dream)see S(ew(o these incredible things Each grown through sharing