Alien in bed

Jealousy

what if, i recognize love?
what if, i understand love?
what if, i accept love?
lost in this new world, i do love
in dimensions, the need might be
for me to learn of love, to show love
to the new in the new world

My apologies for taking the sex out of cheesecake

let us be outside
the evening breeze met me in a telling way
a way meant for us
the path up through the mountains
guided by God
always chasing
the greater the battle
the more I love
land the butterfly on me
peace, come to me
love in the sky
on the beach
love in your eyes
always chasing
I hear their cries
from then to here
time flutters by

Carnival flame

Well, it's over for another year. Things did get a little hot for some during Carnival this year in Trinidad & Tobago. I witnessed and documented some colourful aspects of the celebration.

I discover

you appeared before me with mixed feelings
are you mostly bad or good?
it looked like you needed
something I understood
how did you know my desire?
the answer was immediate
the truth is
it came from deep inside
this place should be familiar
why, it was all so easy
everything just seemed to flow
obstacles were washed aside
talked over the sinful and the sweet
stranded when one might have chosen sleep
thought it was over just then
having only barely started
a sure sign to retreat
maybe no maybe misread
more time was needed
how could we have known?
a little wrong a lot right
expected nothing
you surprised me just then
more real than I imagined
I saw you for the very first time
a wonder emerges
asking with only a stare
again and again
wanting the answer I want
I can’t see at this moment
only too clearly
just needed to say
your scent adorned my clothes
it was from last night and it was delicious
at 3 o'clock in the morning, I inhaled you
and inhaled you and inhaled you
fighting with the truth and the circumstance
getting to know you is in itself one of the
most beautiful experiences
I have ever been allowed to truly surrender
giving myself over to you
do I belong to you?
I hear someone say no
slowly you begin to possess me
you surprised me still
not with the surprise but with the beauty
the art, the form
another wonder

All about love

Do you love me?
show me hate, anguish and torture
Do you love me?
show me the other side
the side I understand so well
teach me jealousy, weakness and selfishness
honour me with misery
Do you love me?
tell me lies
take away my passion
take away the pleasure
Do you love me?
cast me out, not once
but too many times to count
shine the harsh light on me
judge me and belittle me
Do you love me?
in the moment, don’t think of me
ignore me and use me
constrain me, stifle me
Do you love me?
drench me with negativity
view freedom as confinement
pigeonhole me
Do you love me?
call me the enemy
hide in the darkness and
blame me for the world’s unhappiness
Do you love me?
slaughter me and pray
for another to love

Valentine's Day is coming

I think I'll share a few poems up to and including that special day. How about one a day till then? I knew you'd love that idea. Here is the first one.


You go first

again, I sit in darkness
again, I have no fear
aside from the noise and the tears
aside from the blisters and the smog
an obvious gaping hole into which I cannot see
I can go all day if you promise not to notice
you are schizophrenic aren’t you?
I knew you were, I saw it early on
behind the dancing and the chatter
behind the shyness and the subtlety
it was exposed, like an open window in a strange room
waiting for me to take my first step towards
what do you see? what do I see?
leaping, was the other part of me
the spiritual self encountered something unworldly
it was dark but identifiable
something one senses with every sense
something we have all known for centuries
myself, I believe in womankind
as far as this has taken me away from the truth
I always, have believed

And then it hit me…

If you don't do anything, nothing gets done.