When You Take Aim

Take aim at

My heart

Over my head

It starts there

You should know

It sees you

Sees worth

So up it goes

Heart high

Not for pride

Not for shame

But needing to

Hear its tempo

How it rises and retreats

Races and rests

Releases and reaps

Reacts to your touch

Risks everything

The colorful moods

Truth seekers each one

The parts that make it whole

How it makes ... me

How it has a story

How it wants to tell ours

So when you take aim

Aim for my heart

So I'll always know you're trying

Love and Space

I'll jump
Not wait
An invitation
To enter space

To love's space
A shared space
Mine
Yours
For me to be me
You to be you

Space to breath
Space to release
Space to draw strength
Space to return strength

Find truth in space
Find love in space

To give in space
And take in space
To love yourself being loved in space
To loving yourself for loving someone else in space

Leaning

We talked about October, the future, sized up the challenges, the distance

We found focus, planned for little, diminished our expectations

In a familiar place, we watched the rivers lean into each other

We leaned, too, with entangled fingers, hands, the warmth of our knees touching, fall sunlight dancing on our faces

The waters merged in front of us, one snaking from southern plains the other clear water from the mountains close by

Miles in common and little else, the rivers collide rather peacefully, embracing the other just the way it came

A cold, cloudy swirling, to be sure, but two souls finding a way, to float away, leaning downstream together

Satellite Sierra

Satellite Sierra ... you fly, it's true
High above still, around, away, and back again
You come and you go

My eye fixates, my breath taken
You dance in magnificence

Large from a distance,
you are bright like a star in the dark
Daytime drags, I've lost you again

Are you bigger than my arms?
I dream you're within reach, believe it

Can I wrap you? I need to try.
I need to wrap. I want too much

You come and you go

Sierra

S

It's like waking from a dream, a sweet one.
Hard to grasp, hold, process.

Powerful themes. Players loving. Boldly.
Colliding worlds, moving words,
emotions tossed about.

Control, out of reach, abandoned.
It swept me away, like a leaf on a beautiful current.

Too good, too sweet, too much, too hard.
And I was doomed from the start.
For it was only a dream.

C

Shoreline

Cloudless blue sky, illuminating, divine

She washes over me like a cool summer breeze.

Lazily, like pools of ocean blue and calm sea

Her eyes sparkle in fits, flutter in currents.

Her breaths linger like wet kisses against my skin

Shoreline caressed, she tells me I’m alive. 

Circular logic

The world doesn't want you

... so you change

The world doesn't want you to change

... into something you're not

The world doesn't need you