Showing posts with label Beloved. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beloved. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

(55) Future & Hope

Sometimes I see you
You show up at work 
You're the extra sweet guy with
the kind eyes & dark hair

Sometimes you're the one good comment on my blog
the guy that sent me a book
& asked "How is your heart?"

You're the one who shows up 
in my favorite dreams 
the one who wraps his arms around me
& misses me when we've apart

You are the hope
I still have
of a future waiting
& someone to come home to
Who is coming home to me

Thursday, August 29, 2013

(1) Island

It is a sick & twisted thing 
Not knowing who
(& where)
you are

Everything aches & arches
These cycles of my
physical self...
They don't make it easier

Every inch of me hungry
Every night lonely
Every prayer feverish--
hoping God will keep me sane,
& whole

Maybe arranged marriage,
blind dates, old systems,
aren't all bad
At least then I'd know you
And could build my life
on making you happy

My heart is deep as space
but clear as a glassy creek

If I could just dream of you
Hear comfort in the words you speak
That your lips 
could caress my name--
Maybe it would quench the burning 
& stave off the doubt

How long will I be stranded?
Or should I make a home
of this island
& decorate it with shells?