“A Dwelling”

June 5th, 2019



Basking in what was lasting sunlight

I found myself asking for what and whom I was proved 

Still young, I felt accomplished yet 

Still I felt malnourished too

How was one to reach a kingdom 

When the water was vast and blue?

Sails shift and old shells rip and crack

With the rift and pack

Wild and animalistic, wolves bite and nip at our shoes

Closer than ever to a heaven, I see an angel and her eyes are blue

Same as the tide pulling

But innately pure and their intentions true

What was love before this? 

How has the knight always died by blade for a love unproved?

Why do the lovers mingle in the bars 

And then consummate in their tombs? 

She sleeps on sheets floating on a shoreline

Somewhere South of Toulouse

By bike she’s traveled Europe

And with an even calm she’s shown she moves

May I find myself with her again

Deserted where it will be just us two

Near New Mexico, where we’ve made a dwelling

And it’s with her I’ll always move