"Sleepless"

 Sleepless

 I feel your mind

 It does not sleep

 I hear your thoughts

 Crawl up inside me

 I feel your hand

 Beneath the sheets

 You toss and turn

 But don’t move at all

 Your hand grasps

 For mine

 You need to feel

 Some life

 You feel so cold

 So alone

 Although you lie

 By my side

 So distant

 You become

 So far your thoughts

 Can chase you

 How lost in them

 You find yourself

 I can take you in

 Hold you

 Close

 To my skin

 Feel the warmth

 That I give

 Feel the warmth

 From within

 My thoughts

 Weave through yours

 Your eyes yield access

 To bring you back

 With each breath

 That we take

Simple Heroes

My thoughts are with those who lost theirs lives ten years ago today. 

My thoughts are with their family, friends and loved ones.

You will never be forgotten.

"Simple Heroes" 2001
acrylic on canvas

"Simple Heroes" 2001
original sketch

"Nothing But Paradise"

Nothing But Paradise

  

 It is our paradise

 Still, lingering, senses alive

 The softness of the world

 In which we lie together

 Moving each time

 To find ourselves

 Still wrapped in embrace

  

 Push my hand into the sheets on my bed

 Implant myself as memories in its shape

 Move with its movements

 Change as it shifts

 Creases always flow to you

 A world we make upon my bed

 An island – Far away

 We stay stranded for a lifetime

 To pray nothing changes

 To hide together, forever

 We chase each other through our minds

 Lover to lover

 Word for word

 Match sensations

 Our time together does not end

 Nothing but paradise

 We will hide

"Misguided Emotions"

 Misguided Emotions

 My mind is troubled by what it cannot find

 I search and try to understand what you are

 Dip my heart somewhere I do not tread

 Drag my mind through the garbage that is your belief

 Stemmed by something you do not understand

 The heart plays tricks of the world one cannot accept

 I garnish the words you speak in a hypocritical stance

 Believe that you mean no harm

"Crippled"

 CRIPPLED

  

 The world is black in my eyes

 The sun rises behind me

 Today anyway

 I seem peaceful and calm

 On my skin it seems real

 No pain can be felt or seen

 My mind is alive

 Crippled inside

 By the pain you can’t see