Mercy

between a rock and a soft place
I bury my head
ignorance finding me both unready and unwilling
painting my nails a new shade of golden blue

My buried head breathes and eats the dust of the earth
a remedy for both forgetting or remembering.
A line in the sand, holding too close together everything and nothing.
In Love with a God I'm not sure I want to forgive.

So here we are
with words, fingers,
sighs & spaces,
saying nothing
in these same words
over-worn & overwrought

breaking ideas into pieces
for a pound of flesh
mine for yours
many too much
wine back to water
salt of the sea

The weather is watching,
always changing
nothing
how we breathe.

It's been so Long

and the earth turned hard 

waiting for your rain

waiting for you to come

to your own funeral

to cry 

for your heart 

broken,
& breaking

over & over

dreaming like water

we were thirsty 

we wanted all of you

we broke our wishbones

wanting more than we could chew

You need to open the window

to get out of the house

out of your mind

your skin

time to let love pass right through 

hopefully hopeless

Like a conversation I can't carry
words missing double meanings
an infinite nothing
I love you so hard man

The hard way
heavy heaving
rocks
my own glass heart
beating, breaking, bloody
Love
enough
for everyone
to lie face down and drown in

This is the way I Love;

heavy and sinking,

like a stone

slowly falling through water.

Hard but solid

dependable even in it's falling apart

grain by grain

surrendered

to become the sands of time itself.