Toss Around

We wrestle into every position
All the ones we always dreamed
We'd finally share with that someone
And all the ones we always knew

Never felt right with anyone before

Happened So Fast

Maybe your fears
Are not a big deal for me
And my fears
Are not a big deal for you

And that's all it took

A Part, Apart

Black for you
Is a genre, a category
For me, and well
Most of human history black is

Mother, father, marriage to the sun

The Verse

How many times
Have you found
Your old self and
Your new self

Between two pages

By Numbers

You have no art
You say you like to draw
But all you ever do is colour
In the lines given to stifle childish hearts

I know why you don't know how to love

Symbiosis

Lately I've noticed
These thoughts keep coming back
In the dead of night I can remember
Memories I only before had access to

Through a shared consciousness I thought was lost

Closure

I've moved on she said
I didn't believe her
Until she showed me
He'll give her what I never could

It finally made sense what she was asking for

Community

I hear crickets
It's January in my condo
I know the noise is in my head
And I shouldn't listen to them chatter

But they're the only ones reaching out

Of Grey

You only try
To talk to me
Through suffering
Anymore

We haven't shared a smile in months

Permission

You can do it
I believe in you
That never stops
Just because we're apart

Allow yourself to be happy again

Intangible

I placed a lot of things
From my heart on these pages
And I did not smear blood or flesh
But rather that thing in the heart that

Was never mine, was never ours, to begin with

Oh, Oscar

I was never invited to your party
Except those times I dressed up
As the help, the clown, the villain, the fool
I get it, exclusivity requires exclusion

Why else would anyone confuse you for important

The Miserables

All this petty acting out
Teaming up with your single friends
Trying to decide if I really cheated
Or if those voices need to be silenced

They working hard to drown in the shallow end

Low Endurance

To be honest
I've spent the last while
Hoping harder to see you happy
Than to see me happy, and frankly

I can't outlast either of our miseries

You're Soaked

You may feel on grey days
That your great love passed you by
Know then, finally, that you are wrong
It was my great love that came and went

Come on in from the rain babe

And Thus

I didn't love her
Or any of them
As much as I do you
Fair question though

How many times have I answered so

No Question

If I could have you
I would search no further
I would yearn no longer
All the quest in me would perish

As I would have for the first time arrived

Wholesome

Romance and passion
Those are the spices of life
You want to base your whole diet
On spice, I'll tell you what's in store

Heartburn

Recognition

So loudly he says that his
Giving is for giving's sake
For me that never jived
For me the only altruist is the man

Who's realized he gives out of guilt

Daily Couture

I'm not fooled
You know precisely
How enraptured I must be
Every inch of you is on purpose

Every inch a victory over me

Basking

Is this truly an
Invasion of privacy
Anymore than I invade the sun
When she enters my room with

If anything far less radiance

Shopping Malls

Walking on your own
I pray also alone
If I can set myself free
From these hundred fears

I might ask if you mind being alone together

Still Labours

That's how it happens
You find out at your desk one day
How easily now you lose focus
How easily you lost focus of it all

How hard it is now to sit, think, stretch or anything peaceful

Foghorn

I can't see where
You're trying to take us
Yet still all I have
Is your voice and my trust

To see me through these days

High Moon

If this mighty river
Surrounded by such beauty
Can find calmness
Surely in your presence

I can find low tide within myself

Wheels Fall Off

Don't do this
Please don't do this
If you keep up this display
I won't be able to forget it

Which for me is true forgiveness

Over The Head

I've buried you with the others
But their hearts never
Beat for mine quite like yours
I suspected you would resurface

Which is why I kept the spade

Sustenance

I don't hunger
For your flesh
This isn't appetite
What I have is thirst

I need you for my survival

Without Hitting Back

Africa, mama
Keep us safe and warm
From his cold unfeeling whip
I know he's wrestling with his own guilt

But I can't protect my brothers much longer

Two Can Die

Young black man
They want you to cheat
So they get the real two for one
The queen is dethroned and the king

Forfeits his holdings to their judiciary

See It Through

Who's counting tears
What use is there in ending this early
To spare more tears in the future
And after all if we end this now

I'll lose way more tears between now and then 

At Contact

Each kiss was
Passionately wet and yet
Each kiss was
Dry flintstone colliding

Sparking our everlasting flame

Water Torture

Now I have a narrative
A reason outside me
For these words inside me
And it was only ever to be found

At the bottom of my sea of tears

Taken

Took a thousand words
To make us picture perfect
Took a thousand poems
To put our picture away

Put it away and it took my poems hostage

Prometheus

Every night I am reborn
With memories of you and I
And each morning again
Sentenced to death as I wake

Without you here to join me as I climb

Last Night

You've cursed me
With a night I'll never relive
I still remember how it tastes
I remember dying in you knowing

I would regret not bringing us to life

Familiar Whimper

Last night I dreamed
Of what I must sound like
Booming into your fragile ears
And it shattered me to hear

Your voice asking only for approval under mine

In Your Court

Let me tell you son
In life a lot of people
Will ask you to care more about
The things that don't need your attention

Than the things that are begging you for it

Enough Talk

I want our lips together
Not because I crave your flesh
When we speak to one another
Our words are like lonely blades of grass

Trying to tell us how rich the soil is beneath them

Or Low Tide

We are all water
So we were both waters
I shouldn't demise
That yours have mixed

With mine forever

Induce Me

Bring my heart to sleep
Let it dream away past troubles
Let it wake up to a new day
Fresh as it once was before

It beat for you

Penning Us Apart

We're both storytellers
You're telling a story
That hasn't happened
I'm telling a story

That hasn't happened yet

Habits, Habitat

Boatman doesn't live
Working closed waters
The shores are not his home
Just a place for his slumber

The waves are what rouse him from it

Slope

This is how I
Slipped into lunacy
It happened the night I realized
All of their voices were

Less convincing than all of mine

Breakout

Now I want out
From under this safety blanket
I'm still very afraid of the outside
All I know for sure though is I'm

More afraid of dying in here

Only Renovate

You want to tear down any walls
That stand between me and you
That's fine, but when you attack my
Foundation it just means you don't want

This house I've built, so build your own

Vibes

Everything trembles
For something
Someone
On this grand fabric

Somebody already feels your pulse

Heavy Gaze

Your ducts are filled
With tears held back
Saved for me to see
If that's what you want

I will bring you the jar half filled with mine

That Princess There

Spoiled by hyperbole and
Ruined by childhood promises
Of luxuries beyond contribution
Of title without deeds, she's yet to learn

The tiara weighs less than the crown

Chain Gang Redo

Each one brought his own hammer
Gripping me tight as his pin
Together we chiseled away
Hoping to set free a hidden soul

Not knowing exactly whose would spring forth

Are You Free

Blessed with more time
On God's green earth
Than any humans before us
Yet we wonder how we could ever

Do more than the ancient heroes we worship

For Orientation

There's no helping her
She wants to be lost
Least of all found by you
When she calls to you from a distance

She only needs your voice not your words