Optimal Optical

A lot of how
We see the world
Has to do with the lens
Through which we see it

I saw only darkness through your eyes

New Subject

I've never seen
A cloud leave so quickly
There must be someone else
East of here whose night

Has suddenly become worse than mine

Hard Look

Who am I
This man sitting here
At this hour unable to sleep
So awake with himself yet

Asleep to the trials of happiness

Humidity

Rain births poems
I am simply a deliverer
My words are crop and livestock
What would I have fed you

Were it not for the rainfall from your eyes

Steeplechase

No matter how hard you try
You won't escape my eyes
You'll never make it to more perfect
Than you already are now

This now, and every now, from now on

Animal Attraction

I hear a lion in your lungs
A bear in your belly
A gorilla in your gullet
But the mouth of a mamba

Quiet, until my flesh within range

Not A Care

When the sky falls
And beats against the
Empty city streets at night
I hear your laughter in each drop

Wishing you were splashing in my puddle

Foundation

This vanity
Is a sickness
You volunteer yourself to
More often than you volunteer

Yourself to your health

Give and Take

If you know
You mistreated me but
Won't fight to give me peace
As much as you fought to give me hell

Then who will ever fight for you

Aftermath

After he ripped my heart
In two from then on I could
Only ever love two men at once
Or one with half my heart

While the other half withered in politeness

Optical Illusion

She isn't the girl for you
She's not going to find you
If she can't even find herself
Staring in that mirror all day long

Unless you stand in her shadow you're not in view

Utilized

You were always
Going to betray my heart
Once you betrayed your own
You made me meet you in your thunderstorm

Only to dry off by his fireplace

Passing You By

You don't want me
To want is an active verb
If you mistake it as passive
It will leave you behind

As will I

Cover girl

Please, I beg you
Stop painting your face
You think I like it on you but
With if you put on another coat

I fear I might lose you forever under there

Brute fact

I want you in the sun
Every inch of your flesh
Glistens in my desire
Your entire body is mine already

Except the lips, which I prefer in the night

Restless

I think you're in love
With your wild heart
You think it sets you free
But you've become a slave

To the wilderness