Ascending Azure

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Ascending Azure

I sense the sixth
I plead the fifth
I stand before
you
No more third
wheel
Just us two
In this one
room
A distance of zero
No barriers or layers
Between us
Simply two lovers
Beneath
Cloud-like covers
A key has been found
As two fumble around
Interlocking lips and fingers
Tip the scale
A male then a female
A female then a male
Justice and love has been served
Millions of synapses and nerves
Ignite then explode
No casualties
No casual love
Yes, intense, intense
Catch a moment and a breath
No time to rest
All the time to love.

II.

Raindrops dot the four walls
Drench the weathered canvas
Four and no more though I see only one
Echoes careen and reverberate
In a metal cave
Feel the wave till you hydroplane
Made it alive by the skin of your teeth
Because you lost the rest
In Peace
Green grass almost glows
This Grey Saturday
Tired of waiting
Maybe frustrated
Will all the days be like this?
Blend then fade into a forgettable mist
Close your eyes to wake up
Hidden meanings loom
Forbidden fruits with the nectar of Truth
Tempered by hard and soft lessons
To lessen the blows of disappointment
Intrigued by the unknown,
And you are the unknown..
So tell me more about yourself.

III

Like Icarus with his wings of wax
I get high whenever the needle sings on wax
Higher and higher towards the sun
Around and around till the song is done.

IV.

The wheels and stars were out of alignment
when we first met.
Unexpected
Unexpected
Held you in the moon and sun
Light
Light as a feather
Never, never, never
Do i wish for us to end
Don’t want to travel the path
Well- traveled
Wish to travel where the unknown
Unravels
Before my eyes
Holy grail in the shape of a little black box
So much locked within
So much that I cannot live without.

What does the butterfly become once it has flown to the sun and back into the cocoon?

VI.

Fluttering white ascends
Gradual brown descends
You carry the look of the wounded
Head lower than your spirits
During the day – out the door
Shoe gazer
During the night – behind closed doors
Stargazer

VII.

Warm your hands by the backfire
We are having scapegoat for dinner.

VIII.

Others follow the rules – Others follow the fools
You follow no one except the sun
Others fall off the cliff like mindless lemmings
You fall off the horizon while the sun is setting
its self up to rise again
Others die while you are reborn
A day of mourning or a morning of a new day?
My chakras are spinning in anticipation of this soul emancipation.

IX.

Complete the circle, fill the sphere
Temper the spirit to know no fear.

Skyscrapers of Old York

Excuse the presence of steel golems in the horizon
Revered for it grandeur
Yet never does its lips touch the rim of life
Cold to the touch though living beings reside within its walls
A sheet of concrete separates man’s feet
from the soil
Man still mines and toils
Within steel caves, within Golem’s veins
Worker bees soon go insane
Searching for a golden queen in vain
Always marching in unison
While no unity exists within
Reside within their own skins
Steel then skin, skin then steel
A child no longer knows how to feel
A childhood sealed away in a lock-box of commerce
Separate worlds no longer converse in isolated tunnels
A death of the spirit
Never an isolated incident

Dark Beauty

A sweet paradox with dreadlocks
They tell you that you are dark,
so you are not beauty
Making your one and only duty
not to love who you are
Leaving hurt and scars
with every side remark
Barring you from your birthright
that’s always been in sight
Teaching you to never step near it
Teaching you to always fear it
Your beauty – Your unbreakable spirit
Take it.
It was always yours.
Take it.
Radiating deep in your wounded core
Take it.
Emanating through each of your pores
It was always yours.