January 13th, 2007
Closer Than Real
I have known you.
Your name has changed and your voice is new, but there is no one else it could be. Are you supposed to be a stranger now…is that what I’m expected to see?
I wait in silence for you to say something, for fear that my lips will reveal what I try so hard to contain. A fool to pretend my voice lies in words, yet I know that if I release my hold for even a moment you would…
No.
I mustn’t think of it. Instead, my mind races to dispel you with questions, the answers to which I have already known. And when it’s breath, not voice, that satisfies I will learn once again that I have few defenses against the air. The touch of it glows deep within me, and in spite of myself I feel you.
Oh god I feel you.
Tell me it is real and I will not doubt. Show me again and again that nothing lies between the stars and the sky so I will quit looking. And when I stand in the rain, eyes closed as you shout out loud, I will welcome you once more. I will let the memory of you run down my face to seep between my lips and I will know…
You are not a dream.
January 19th, 2007 at 6:48 am
Is that you? You inspire, are loved and my pride.
February 26th, 2007 at 10:12 am
is that a picture of you? if it isn’t, it sure looks a lot like you! i have read everything and i am amazed. you are SO creative and it all comes out so beautifully in so many forms — poetry, prose, art…it’s awesome that you’re putting it all together on this site, and i can’t wait to see more. i’m trying to navigate back to see the charcoal picture now…
(i love the buddha quote at the top, too — very fitting.)
February 26th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Thank you!!!! :”>
you can always click lucid soul at top to return to the home page!
P.S. that is me on a bus in Vegas ….wanting soooo badly to come home lol
I was watching those weird trams go back and forth