The beauty the beauty the beauty

time a painted tattoo
dissolved on the beach of no tomorrow
the horizon folded into itself
never and forever collided
endless seas
fell into endless skies

I am a child and an oldster
written with memory
a slipstream of echoes
bathed in a silence
that cannot be held
with an empty hand

this hush falls through itself
it is simply a reflection
without a source
the mirror has no sides

a primordial song of light and shadow
spills through these hands
my fingers stretch into sky
as sky swallows me

and the singer
weeps
as this unfathomable beauty
cannot be kissed
with this song that sings me

wind soars through wind
sun slides through light
and the waters
laughing

Moon light 

Clear and empty

Caverns of space crumble

Sky paints sky with sky

Seamless liquid luminosity

Falls through itself

Your heart dropped a million times

Until love kissed itself

There were never two 

Or one 

Or none 

Belly of the storm rumbles 

Scent of distant lightening 

Closer than purple cloud shadows sweeping across your face

There is no horizon to cross

No one to reach the end of their world

Tsunami of earth and sky and every word you’ve uttered

Unleashes a lifetime of affliction

Doves fly up and chase their shadows

Through ancient tales of broken moon

Fingertips lightly touch the waters

Time

a fingerprint

Of light on light

Spacious beyond measure

More intimate than your very breath

This song that sings me

Sings you

Sings this heartbeat of this and that

Skies open

And swallow you

As you drink deeply

This edgeless sea of dreams

Ribbons of morning slide

through the trees 

through the glass

Through my eyes

Life kisses me

A bird I have never seen

Punctuates the swooning

Of night into day

It is the not knowing 

That is so beautiful 

The knowing 

That there is no one to know

Is sublime

My heart was a vessel

An empty hand 

I was a beggar

Starving for love 

Longing for the sky to consume me

The sea to swallow me

The horizon to unfold itself and clothe me

In a kiss of sea and sky

Tsunami of hope and fear crushed me

There is no one to drown in the sea of love

No one wearing this nakedness  

Nothing but empty echoes singing

Waves kiss the sands 

Dissolving all footprints

Of night and day 

Sky swallows it’s own reflection 

Only through my eyes

Does love flow 

In 

And out 

Meeting and erasing itself in the middle

Words dissolve in this river of song 

That sing you

That sing me

That sing calm clear skies

And cloudy days 

lovers old

And new 

Dancing on the terrace of winds 

There are no words that will break the spell of dreams 

As there is no one enchanted  

No one skinny dipping through these words 

No one reading this song 

No one singing 

Only words 

Tracing their own echo 

Finger tips reaching for the surface of the water 

I am drowned in this love dream

And appear as this river 

Longing to sing of its own wetness 

Of its own beauty 

Which I cannot see until you lean over to catch a glimpse of your own reflection

Light softly runs through light

Ripples of magic flow

Tenderly 

Delicately 

Breathing reflections on a mirror 

In this chorus of love 

I cannot find my own voice

But I can feel these songs pour through me

I taste the vowels

Feel my teeth and tongue slide through the consonants

Wind soars through wind

Neither major nor minor nor in between 

Suspended as sunlight dancing 

Woven with golden threads

One leaf falls

Floating

Softly 

Softly

Love flows 

Words have no number 

Number is a word 

Etch a sketch of sky on sky 

Appears and Disappears 

Simultaneously 

All by itself

Mist falls softly into dusk

Reveals your nakedness 

Dissolves the chains 

Of dark and light 

You came to me seeking shadows

And music to erase them 

But all I find is your sweetness

Your undeniable perfection

And your beautiful song 

I cannot cause your devastation

Or your resurrection

I cannot light the lamp that you are

I can only reflect the love and emptiness

You fear 

And long for 

Words have no number 

Number is a word 

Etch a sketch of sky on sky 

Appears and Disappears 

Simultaneously 

All by itself

Here joy and sorrow merged long ago...

It’s all so undeniably beautiful 

Life 

Death 

Love 

Love lost...

Not feeling separate from feeling or life, there is no trying to capture it...

Wind cannot hold or trace wind

Love set her sails for nowhere

Billowing in the empty sea

She drowned in a ship wreck of words
Washed ashore wearing tattered love letters

Written by no one 

For no one

But the morning wind dancing 

Flying folding into itself

Dissolving

Reappearing 

As lovers merging  

In clouds of echoes 

Rippling across the seamless sea

Her own voice calling

Sinking countless shadows

The sky wept

Love painted her nakedness

No tears underneath it

No harbor to tether it

No lines to contain it

No words to sing of this utter devastation

And the loss of even love 

That feels like love 

I tried to hide

curled beneath the autumn leaves

terrified of the absence of tomorrow

deep deep roots and painted earth tones 

reached up and swallowed the day

endless blues of sky shattered and fell into the blood soaked garden

revealing tear stained leaves

this broken cup

this broken hand

these broken lips

this broken heart 

the pages fell apart

the story line erased itself

and that became the story

painted with disappearing ink

I am these memories

of hiding from the dark

of hiding from this love

that shattered all dreams

all hope

all fear

and brought me back

weeping 

weeping 

weeping

life

death

love

love lost

ahhhhhhhhhh

the beauty the beauty the beauty

love wrote her name in my heart

with my own blood and tears

and teeth

eviscerated my light

and shadow

I longed for the sword of truth

I never expected it would hurt so much

to crash to crumble to slaughter all ideas of outside and in

all concepts of meaning and truth

of any solidity 

and anyone to have it

mourning my own death

only to find I never lived

yet here I am

the sweetness of love's caress 

swooning into and through itself

kissed from the inside and out

soaring through imaginary walls