Rhyme This

Artistry has many forms
find yours
and keep it close to your heart
I am creative energy
uncontainable
I inspire
I ignite
excite and unnerve
My initiative puts me out in front
of the rest
and intimidates
That's what they told me
creating a stirring up of the
masses
But no one's on my time, on my side
they perpetrate camaraderie
A façade of a relationship
yet when I'm alone I'm reminded
Of my army, the size of the heavens
Now that's wide

Mountain Climber

They gave it to me or so they believe
I took it and ran with it
They set me up to
Fail
By the mouth, the hand and the foot
They didn't expect me to excell
Nor to learn how to use it
Or so they believe
I've been at this life for decades
Can do it by heavenly degrees
I surpassed their expectations
I have succeeded in ways too bold
For words
And I'm loved by the masses
But conformed to the One
They admire it in me
Yet they're scared of it too
Set me up to fail and if they're not
Careful I'll be the force that
Blows a hole right through.

This Little Heart of Mine

my heart bleeds
upon the pillow
where my tears leave
stains
in the middle of the night
when sleep is all I fight
can someone come and rescue me
from this simple strand of misery
my heart bleeds
and waits
for a complex solution
only in it's makeup will
the irony
be
for completion
is a man different from me
my heart bleeds

In Search of Solace

To find a place
Cool and comforting
In the middle of this journey
Where I can pitch a tent
To cover my valuables
And their contents
For you see I am the valued one
With pockets of treasures
Hidden in the valves
And the veins
Like gemstones buried
In caves
And diamonds
Inlaid
Masked by the darkness
Of rough black coal
To find a place
Cool and comforting
To rest my heart and soul.

Ice Cream Man

Summer come quick
Bring me pleasure
Sweet and cool
By the bowl or popsicle stick
And let it be delivered
By love attached
To chocolate eyes
Strong hands
And a voice like
Lullabies.

Just Air

I got nothing but love for you
Magnified
If you knew half of what you think you know
I would be swimming in an ocean
Of blue bliss
And
Floating on clouds
White
And this whatever this moment
Of emptiness is called
Wouldn't exist!

Tested For Truth

We should be together
You and me
But time and circumstance
Won't agree
Or is it emotional travesty
Like sabotage
Purposely
With intent to deny
Chemistry
The balance reported
In the tapestry
Of the night time
Conversation
Between hearts and minds
Yours and mine
Intrusions
Interference
Of the jealous
Devilish kind
We should be together
You and me

Oh Dear

This letter will never make it to your hands
for I don't want to change your mind
because the choice was yours to make
and distance is what you chose
despite the joy that bounces
through your body to land
on your face in the turned up corners
of your lips
abandoning the ship
is your course
I'm not one to pour myself
out and over if you're not one
to absorb
woman overboard

Star Hopes

Hoping on a star
knowing a wish
is just a fancy word
for gamble
believing
that over there
at the end of this journey
is a man
hoping on the very same star
and our auras will
traverse the universe
like spirits do
and in a matter of minutes
that seem like
years
his voice will grace my ears
my voice will calm his fears
hoping on a star
that patience is more than
a virtue but a deep imbedded
precipice
because some days it feels
like I'm falling, reeling even
and not towards love
but an empty
abyss