The Complete History of the World

Before Time there was You.
At the beginning of Time there was I.
For all Time We loved.

I forget the rest.

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The Secret Language of Angels

"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été."
("In the depths of winter, I discovered there was in me an invincible summer")
-Albert Camus

You moved in me

at first as one cell in my heart that vibrated
to a distant tuning fork an infinity away
then as my heart whole gave way as a symphony
eternal,
as waves upon the waiting shore,
you sang within me

We inhaled the secret language of angels
and leapt from the edge of the world
into the spinning darkness
clutching tightly to each other
knowing we were the wings that
would never land

We embraced with human arms made of light
and became the torch
that set fire to the stars
and gave greatness to the skies

Darlin',
you and I,
we always both knew
we were never a random
fate

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Locked

I tossed my dreams high
into the air
to see where they would land
and
instead
they flew higher
as if
attached
to hundreds of
brightly colored kites
losing all sense
of gravity

and
reaching Heaven,
the astonishing light
of your soul
opened
a strangely familiar flower
of uncorruptible beauty
that you placed
in my hand
that
healed all the
long
forgotten wounds
and forever
held the world together

And when I returned,
eyes sparked awake,
I would feel the familiar
reassurance
of the field beneath me,
the winsome sun burning across
its deepest pure skies
and your hand locked
forever
in mine.

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L= (Y+M) C²

Do you know that place between
being awake and asleep
where you still remember dreaming?
That's where we can always find
each other
and our love
waiting

What if I were to tell you
in one impossible fleeting moment
in our embrace
I knew your life complete
as you would mine?
Every thought
every memory
every pain
every joy
every failure
every triumph
while the world
went quiet around us
silent
as we were flung
fearless
to the far end of
a timeless
universe

Perhaps I will never fully understand
the physics of love
Only that
Love will always be
you and me
together
times
the speed of light
squared

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Elegant Star

In everyone's sky
is
one
elegant
star

the star
that slightly
escaped
the passing glance
but whose soul was
always
remembered

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I Want To Be With Her

I want to be with her
who knows secret things
secrets that hang precariously like drops
of honey from her lips
falling through space and
ringing like tiny bells that only
she
can
hear


I want to be with her
who splits the sea breezes
with excited horses
and waves lapping the soothed sand
as
I savor the saltwater
off her skin
inch
by
inch


I want to be with her
as the universe awakens
electric
where you are the first morning
and nothing in the world
is
usual
today


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I Shall Give You The Journey

They may promise you kisses blown across a room
I shall be the winds blown into your sails
They may promise you a house
upon a quiet expanse of land
I shall be the fire comforting your home
and the rains that water your garden
They may promise you the Queen's finest jewelry
I shall give you the starry heaven's brilliance
They may promise your name upon a yacht of luxury

Walk with me and I shall give you the journey

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Love Bleeds Its Deepest Red

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind douses a candle and kindles a bonfire."
- Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld


I have found you, sweet girl
we must get lost
among the starry celestial fires where
you'll remember me
as the morning stars sing together
and the ocean waves bring us home


Ours was an army of angels
and all-not-yet-invented
where love bleeds its deepest red
with its tenderest mercies
and whispers heroic moonsilver
brilliant over our bodies
fierce with inhaled intent
and blissed panic.


It is us who moves the world
and us who will pull it through
not one heartbeat will we forget
with every measure of grace
we will escape into life
before our most brightest star forever
expires.


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Made of Stars

Tell me about waking where we were two horses turned loose
running and running until we forgot we were horses
where we would teach each other all the things we forgot
and we discovered we were all made of stars

I need your grace as the earth needs the memory of rain.
I will drink poetry from your lips and kiss your fire with mine
I cannot resist you as no mere human
can stand in a fire and not be consumed

I can sit all day wearing nothing but your kiss
I am drowning deep in your undertow
Tell me we shall be ruined by love
and tell me we shall never get used to it

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My Bucket List

1. You (only you).




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