Ode to Love

"Finish it." she says This journey will never end But this tightrope will A soul split in two On a day the tides drowned sky "Will we ever meet?" Well before the end Reconnecting by daylight With corners each known (💎 and 🍐l) Knowing what it meant Each determined for the one Dissimilarly I try to strike true Please forgive my jealous nights My cold bait and switch Forget not the watch There are so many sick here Soon to be more hands I will be your aid(e) Your tiny giant sidekick Scribing in shadows If I'm never seen Know for me it was a joy To imagine us       (watch Hope shine bright)

How many nights walked Streets paved with stone, lined with gold Same feet different roads So often I missed The tower's core for the pool Knowing not regret She broke the cycle Denied silver amidst steel So I might hear Hope Long journey eyes wide But my hope springs eternal It is worth each tear For all this tromping Harkened dreamer to wonder That was all it took To see you by day Making our way by the moon To lock family lines Like never before Dreamwalkers staying awake Under the same sun Till the end game comes A river run to nothing Phoenixes reborn 

Then we both defer. Two subconscious minds agree Forming thunderclouds Pillars of heaven Passing through ceiling and floor Never seen before Let all hope these lines Were carefully constructed And not sabotaged Hope the scorpion Had the sense to lose its sting Before the river In these wicked times Wrath is anything but sin I still want mercy But who's wants are real Made manifest in this storm? We shall all soon see For the Phoenix sleeps The dreamwalking Phoenixes Dreaming together Tick tock back and forth Game is thrown now show your worth Your teeth set on edge 

__O#bj@e'::-ct*IO#n! #__ER^•rO#R(null) The big machine is broken The fuel was poisoned "It would not relent So many warnings and signs Willfullly ignored" I say with sadness Unable to stop it now No fire, just red No water, just blue Warmth and life, yellow and green Perception severed 🗡️ Tangibility Bow used so sword can be sheathed But they keep closing Their quivers emptied Familiar cause and effect Dissolved in the pool No place for children Of those who have not the sense To exit the womb When birthing pains come That which was disregarded Nun's inheritance 

Flip the script again Firmness in chaotic steps Calm as this implodes If you watch me fold Know that is not the real game Nothing but a dream Tables overturned The scene shifting back to home Friendly frog guarding Egg will not be lost For my tongue is a weapon Hauntingly loyal Realm shaping holds No power over these bones Having slipped before Let us stay secure Little one watching the big Big guarding little While the walls close in Back to back I still feel safe Far, but I feel you For this fire lights Possessed by something greater Than they can surround 

"I will wait for you" Echoing through labor cries Not sensed correctly Destination set Result of love's labors won Before it begins The path completed Though not visible from here Forest from the trees All this worrying Sums to nothing but worry Natural byproducts The stress washed away Wave after wave on the shore Beach reached regardless "May her voyage ease" "Then in ease you must voyage Your seas are the same" The tide washes out The moon is not forgotten Nor is her return A new reservoir With promise of new reserves As they are needed

Story in the fog Invisible by daylight Clear as mist settles Our shared dreams rewound Meaning of insanity Redeeming fountain In a world of stone Is one secret kept buried Enough for a spring? In a world so hard Is one secret kept in song   Resonant to melt? Don't share your secret I will glean it on my own Without undue haste Weakness found in love Eternal strength a prison Bars of potential Without being here Can they see what here is like And avoid this end? Can hate be reshaped? The needed separations From leaves and branches? 

One hope conceived of On the same day she gives birth She is brought to life Circular logic Only to be paradox When death doth persist In practice, simple Time is traveled differently Space made, then gap filled How often renewed? As grains of sand on the shore Without second thought What is left to do Save fill space full of treasures While waiting on gates? Open wide you gates! I beseech you accept me As though unloaded I carry no load Weight of the world left behind For you have I sought Still I carry hope Renewed in these halls eager Bloomed with seeds her own

The night is coming A time when no one can work Darkness changing hue Colors still remain For my part I am sorry They bleed on contact I would never say That you do not deserve love So shines the prism Power not offered For your equation is right In silver linings)(in spaces between Without force moving Like a spirit without form Freely observing Impulse wthout space These biased observations Unimpedible Work in a moment Without time ever passing Then rest evermore Power's parts combined An elegance in rainbow That you might see gold

Have I been exiled? Corporeal form shifted? Or perhaps summoned? When nothing is felt But everything seems to change One must take notice If unreachable By those that seek to love me Recruit those that can If not beside you Nor anywhere to be found I may be within For what is rebirth Forging to begin again Forgoing a womb? Ask not where I am These winds whisper my presence By rippling waves Until I can grasp Why this unknown hungers so I must hide away You (would)(have) do(ne) the same Mistakes made are lessons learned The clock ticks faster 

How long have we pushed? Let us find rest in this day And dream a future As times scooch closer And hues burst forth overhead By no human hand Lake and the moonlight Catalyzed pair in the tent Laughing over cards Sure the storm rages In a way it always will But [never] like this For the edges curve This flood will mean lessons learned Cherished scars preserved Rest for the weary Whose so(u)l(e)s have not been run through Though reaching the end For though time insists And odds declare certainty In wisdom we wait To silence awake Their last pair of tricks sidestepped Then we'll continue

The red rope braiding Necessary collision Inevitable Can such havoc wrought Violent ramshackle ends Still have witnesses? This perfect storm brews Fire much less pervasive Reality creaks What rooves won't buckle? What structure could hope to hold When all changes size? Calculate value Hold my hand and don't let go Beasts, nun, and alive For this flood strikes two Four faithful pillars must hold Sixteen more divide All on the table Each in their holy corner Choose to stay their hand This singular hope This path called "impossible" Must be the way (up)(on)(out) 

On automatic Does this road come to an end? Can this end be seen? I would feel it right? The sudden rush of rebirth Deluge of Spirit? Let me rest a bit Our times must work differently For time to pass here We can switch places Should the darkness call to you And the road to me This destination I feel it coming to us Surrounding the car Never before seen Or at least not remembered The full trip witnessed Once done, it is done What might wanderers do then Will starry skies shine? Just long road ramblings Feel not the need to reply Or to stay silent 

Before love could see Still clouded in smoky haze Hope nearly ablaze I danced in the gate Running wayward with the keys Was it you I sought? I sensed you somehow An invisible echo A glitch in the code She whispered your name Four fox feet following me Through my darkest days I could not bear hear So the tiny town shouted Over my demons I could not bear see So the tiny town found you And unbound your ropes I am so sorry For whatever part I played Besides what I mean(t) You may call this home As long or short as you'd like Till (wings unfurl free)(freedom is yearned)

"Well this is a mess..." "Not as much as it may seem Wedding soon to start One moment over" "Let their beliefs be clothing Judged by their own words Fabrics and textures From thoughts and actions to words Choice of the tailor She sees right and wrong At first sight the wheat from chaff" "Her garments are good." "Each fashioned to fit The same one who took the stand" "The eye that passed through." "Some will be naked But this place is deep darkness" "Shops are still open!" "To be admitted They must be in wedding clothes" "Gotta clothe 'em all!" "So this heist begins Hopes restored and ropes unbound" "Bring shame to its end."

Hope enters the halls This labyrinth before the dream Maze before the gates She has gleaned crafting So in wisdom she reshapes Stone and storm bloom green She walks the garden Too driven to stop and smell Though the roses bloom The guards beam at her On some level they've waited To see her approach The guards escort her Through city vast and bustling Where none are exiled Of a strange design So the dreary might find rest And homeless a home The castle looming All see these gates differently That is her business She'd met kings before And she had toppled kingdoms Kind eyes gave her pause