Bigger Picture

Today I woke up in a world, Where a woman slams another in public, Because she has wide hips and is rich, While the same women degrade, Glass ceilings and female body shaming, Where thousands of acres are on fire, Eucalyptus-scented paws burn, starve, Where citizens claw at a leader, Believing politicians have the answers, [...]

Between Nieces and Aunts

She is a child of light, Beauty created of fire, Sure of her own will, Before she could talk. Sweet babe born of Jupiter, Heart and tongue of Pluto, Guarded, jaded, and kind, I see in her a jewel That radiates and dazzles While it cuts so as not to break. Child of my heart, [...]

Fear

Swimming in this drop of time Immersed in inanities, profundities Generated in the racing darkness I have come to know As the touch of a cold lover Who grasps my heart and whispers, "No." Standing beside this grave of dreams, Reaped by internal struggles I just want peace and find myself lost Unsure of what [...]

Maya

It is the shadow, Not the reality, Which has us tied. Fantasy creation Of what was Instead of what is. Look at your life, This is the gap, The crevice between, You and happiness.

I Will

Wrap you in the warmth Of my heart and body Like the thundering Desert seasons Always fierce But perfect by starlight A fiery heart that seeks only To live, to love, and to be loved Running is for the broken Knowing no other way But I stand and am true To this passion, this desire [...]

Human Is Messy

Hearts are complicated things, Shiny and brilliant, easily kindled, Easily burned, beat, pulse, rhythm, Making me dance like a puppet on strings, I feel drowned in the center, awash, In love, or lust, or both, desire is, Delicious, liquid drop upon the tongue, In a desert drenched in sun and longing, It is, it is, [...]

I Was

Crazy with you Crazy about you Disappointed and lost Wandering through my life Looking for some sound Never aware enough to be The person I was trying to become.

Husband Love

Lips pressed to mine Intimate mystery Adventure awoken For the millionth time.

My Insecurities

I Am. The Buddhists say, We must give away, Dissolve, ourselves, To be truly whole, But I wonder, If some of us, Live just to find, Within ourselves, That we are worthy, That we are storms, Of power and blood, Alive and breathing... How can you become Complete in Nothing When you cannot feel Whole [...]