A Mystery

Staring at the swirling stars
Colliding behind your eyes
The darkness reaches far inside
And I can only try

To move away, barricade in vain
What seasons have begun
Not knowing what to do with you
And all you have unspun

The lie of you beyond my reach
Eluded me from truth
Now I look to you as I lay beneath
One inescapable moon

New Birth

I look at you and I remember
The morn that broke the water
And flowed a life such wonder
Full enchantment, clarity and song

You look at me and bring to light
The future beyond the drawn night -
And every breath will bloom the right
Us walking from the wrong

This is ordinary - your unparalleled beauty
Extends tomorrow's hope.
And do I ask - is this everything I wanted, or
Do I cling to nought and soak,
With desire and fraught extraction
From pure and prime perfection
Will you inhale what's left of me
In this fantastical illusion?

Everything Changes

Everything changes
Everything stays the same
I change and I am the same.
I am moving and I am paralysed.
My thoughts run the curves on the ground
Sliding over smooth pebbles
Slipping in those gaps that -
Hold still.
Yet the flow continues
And maybe they shift.

While the stones draw heat away
And sharpen by the rough
They etch your image, furnace fire
Rapid bye between the pages I surrender.
Slower now the progression makes my time
And the wheel spins almost off the axle
No, it stands erect, a formidable trick
The stream that bursts with breadth and fall...
It ceases wonder meeting salt
To a world too large and fish so many
But in mammals mesmerise -
Seek the nurture
Seek the play
And now everything changes!
But looking in, I stay the same.

The Disappearing Act

You live behind my eyes
Playing wistful strays, my mind,
Pulling tangled strings, my tethered heart,
Holding sleep, controlling cries.

Hanging onto encore loop,
Tripping over strewn fruit - waxing,
Still they burn little I have already smoking.
Of your escape I am helpless.
Of my part I am hopeless.

Quicksand sinking, not unlike
My time in you warping - bliss and
Despair, a contortion artist.
The mime sails me home, away
He vanishes and I am still drowning.

My eyes that never saw you carried far,
Bang shut the heavy lids.
Suspended in twilight - do I sit or stand,
I grip ropes tighter, looking over.