{poetry}
Time
Time is what I have of you, and breath is what it gives
The dark before beside and after, but here the sunshine lives
As I walk with you through leaves I see the light begin to fade
But with your hand in my hand now I feel the morning made
Believing once there was a way to keep the light from ebbing
I lost part of our lovely walk in woeful overstepping
Instead of just the sky and you I broke into a run
But you don't need to find the light when you're next to the sun
There are times of darkness every day and many times of rain
And soon or late we must of course go back to them again
But when the trees start fluttering, and when the sunshine breaks
How not to love a light that dies if this is what it makes?
I'll walk with you as long as there are trees that fall for you
I know the mornings and the leaves, and I know that's what they'll do.
Beneathers' Benediction
Not left, not right, and center least
Not here to slay or feed the beast
But there to share our common grief
And find out what's below belief
To open doors and hang a wreath
And show the joy that's underneath
You Have Risen
Eyes clear to picture bright of orange between
Wind parting for the light enameled where
Your pillows by your heart's new golden sheen
Divide like daisies rising in the air
From stems made old on long forgotten dirt
A flight all time, forever meadow bloom
Before the never falls like ancient hurt
I can't remember any more than doom
That stays apart from you; the death that's fuzz
Like steamboats in a time that won't return
And never was, because it never was
Just bugs so small they spread the light you burn
And gasp and sigh and spin at once to see
That you have risen, and you've taken me
Storming a Beach
There was a time we broke on through
Against a tide of rising guns
And I was falling next to you
Forever earth from mother's sons
It wasn't bravery, that ghoul
Just a thing that must be done
Like children trudging off to school
Against the light of rising sun
With sea behind and guns ahead
There's only one place left to go
Like birth we're dropped and soon we're dead
On sands by sea where we're brought low
And here we climb against the earth
And here we rise up from the sea
We fall out of the salty berth
And storming find that there's a we
A field of lilies sways in wind
But each lives on a single stem
A whiteness in the darkness pinned
To earth but never once to them
Yet here we watch the petals fall
To blood and darkness at our feet
To wonder till we join them all
Why that child's heart will never beat
Why storming forward on that day
Just because we had to win
Meant that one lily's blown away
To silence with the hellish din
The wind between the flowers makes
Some tiny noise amid the peace
Of loneliness that somehow shakes
The petals to their last release
Just because it must be done
Just because the battle's won
Our roots are always out of reach
But when we must we storm a beach
Woman, Up
To face the earth
While stretching up
And feel empty
Beneath the sky
Arching under blue
Radiantly incomplete
With earth but without
Wanting
As water falling
A body never full
And never empty
To desire like fire
Burning
In a body
Made of sea
