Desperation

Oh my beloved, I crave your caress 

Melting away my beautiful mess

I dream of your touch across my skin

I would die for you to kiss me again

I beg you to see beyond the mind's lies

Not to be subject to that woman's guise

My beloved, please kiss me once more

You hold the key to my fire, my core

No need to wonder, my soul is branded

Clearing of mind, your wish is granted

Open this book to its final chapter

Pure love and devotion for ever after

The End

Self-portrait

Aching heart beats in screams

She cries so no one will hear it

A hazy unimaginable dream

Spiralling down a funereal pit

Crying cherished moments to blur

Gasping lungs of quivering breath

Freedom forms in unspoken word

She foolishly flirts with death

As suns set and rise again

More cries, till tears run dry

Wisdom feeds on passion's end 

She bludgeons her love supply

Hush the Mind

Self-portrait

Just one desire

Yet now tears kiss

And none the wiser

Into the abyss 

Mind of sorrows

Shallow breaths

Time is borrowed

Since he's left

Plunging forth

A winter deluge

La petite mort

Is pain's refuge 

Hush the mind

Often betrays

Heart is thine 

A burning cache 

Gift of Bliss

Heart submerged 

Feeling high

Vis-à-vis

My butterfly

Luscious being

Soul thus given

Lips await

Their definition

Drink thy tonic

Flesh of rose

Heavenly lover

Vanishing woes 

My Reticence

If I saw you resting there, in a darkened room, by a window
As the sun’s rays melted through the drapes, onto your bare chest

I would gasp at the curves of your unrobed silhouette

I would want to say something, “I want you. I need you.”

As your hand would rest on your knee, your eyes would gaze

I would wonder what you were thinking - hoping it was of me

If I saw you looking in my direction, my heart would stop

Aroused, the urge to look away would drown me

I would stand there, static, amidst a burning passion

I would want to speak to the source of my body's revival

But words would not find their way from the depth of my breath

So I would stand there and wait, for you... to come to me

Nature's Embrace

As I run through the woods

Warm rain thrashes the canopy

The trees quench a thirst

Leaves glisten, renewed vitality

Heavy drops pound my chest 

Mud spatters up my bare legs

Feet sinking, the ground ingests 

Feeling hopeless, my heart begs

With each tenacious stride

I’m filled with deep emotion

Mother Earth I do confide

Tears and raindrops, interwoven 

As I travel through the hills

Footsteps drowned by nature's music

Wondering when I’ll hit the end

At that moment, all is muted

I look up and he is there

Majestic beauty, beyond belief

We lock eyes, Socratic stare

Sudden warmth abates my grief

Utterly still, among dancing trees

His crown adorned are antlers

My tears run dry before he flees 

This love, has all the answers

Always

Collaboration Artwork with Claude Panneton 

I'm me

Always been me

From our first hello

To our love's first high

To our love's first low

From the time we first touched

To the miles that separated 

You, the one whom I loved

We, ever so complicated

It's green

Always been green

Love on the other side

Budding divergeant shades

We trusted, to feel alive

And thus we reunited

Lives, much as miles away

A destiny was plighted 

An ambiguous passageway

And you

You've always been you

From our first goodbye

To our love's first low

To our love's first high

And gloriously we've flown 

Resting in hallowed meadows

Dear love, no other has known

My soul's internal crescendos