Soul has a deepest place

From there moans long and low

From there calls your name

Wails your name

Knows you

In the gravel

Innate and original

And from the low

Nothing is discernible

To all the hearers

Nothing is known

In all of this world

Even to the soul

But every tear letters a word

A language

An agony

A longing

Sent on beams

Riding through skies

Under the hand

To the hand

Of a prince

Who knows well

And hears

For there has never been a groan

He has not held

Or understood

So do comfort on

We’ve been laughing this whole time

But now it’s time to think

Yet you would rather always giggle

And skip rocks on the surface

So I clap to get your attention

You’re good at looking the part

So good I imagine you

With top hat, cane, and pipe

And we begin to discuss

With one, two, three angles at the wise

In that void, where you could think

Like a thinking man

You rather choose

To thumb your nose

At the question

That broad

Which was your moment

A moment to be truly known

But it’s easier

To be a surface dweller

I watched it all

And thought

How typical

Life for you

Is only a gag reel

A gag real and a grin

 

Tonight we said goodbye to each other

Not for eternity

But for the night

It occurred to me that we should kiss

And I could tell

It occurred to you that we should as well

But I didn’t

And you didn’t

Not because anything’s wrong

But because there was a crowd

Which is polite perhaps

But silly really

Because I know I speak for you

And I know I speak for me

That we never again want to be

Guilty of missing kisses

How many chuckle

And roll their eyes

When you say

I don’t know what I’m passionate about

What a luxury

What a laugh

What a first-world notion

Wrong notion

Thankless notion

Deaf notion

How much must one ignore

About nobility and the advance

Before concluding that passion

Is anything other than a choice

Whether in art

Or marriage

Or philosophy

Or the great great cause

Passion is a coat

A gift during the cold stretch

A burden in the stifling heat

Wear it or not

But be light

Choose

 

 

With every passing year

I wanna waterfall your love

All over, all around this whole world

I do, I do wanna shower them with you

I do, I do wanna shower them with you.

As people dash to give themselves titles

And as the trend is to be limited souls

Theres a mad mad need to know the God

I do, I do wanna shower them with you.

I do, I do wanna shower them with you.

If I miss You

Does that mean

I am lonely

Is there

A very numb part

That would jump

Right up in Your lap

And cling to You

While You sing to me

If only

I’d let myself

Receive Your melody

I’m water

At the side

Of the river

Swirling and looping

In a pool

Undecided and noncommittal

About fully joining

Your current

But one

And two

And three

And more

Will likely

Never go

Where I won’t

So that is

A whole lot

Of pressure

Yet not enough

Reason for me

To ask You

To scoop me up

And set me right

In the flow

So see here

I’m lonely

Because You

At full force

Are intimidating

You

At full force

Are the biggest mystery

I am not a poet

Just as I have never been anything

Not a single thing

For I am a poor man

With nothing

And nothing

But what drips

From your hand

 

Tonight I paint in grace

I will not fret

For I know animals get scared

They claw and scrape and jerk

When the storm comes

And though my name is blamed

It is not at all about me

So a dab of mercy

Sure I can give it

For though easier goes the sneer

It is not good for my soul

Or any soul

My safe place

My wide open space

Is humble apology

And rest

You’ve been painted white

And you’re fretting for nothing

There’s not too much dungeon in your story

Prayer made the enemies skip you

So cry the Warrior’s burden

For the vision is the burden

And the burden is the vision

Woke with a new word

Oh He speaks

Of course He did

Again and widely

For it always

Feels as if it is unusual