Familiar friend,
with strangeness greet.
Little changes from times past
Your silence speaks to me.
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I often imagine how it would be to live with you for a day.
Would it make the morning magical?
A suspended pause amidst bliss.
Coffee would be heightened with a sense of fullness.
A dance engaging in juggling the bathroom, closet, shower, shoes, and a door
to
head out to the world.
The solid assurance of confident smiling when eating lunch in solitude, meditating on the shape of your memory.
You are with me always--beckon, retreat, withdraw, pulsate, vibrate.
Dinner, filled with glamorous sizzle of mundane vegetables.
The day is finished
The dream is over as I slip into awakeness, the gleam from greyness has dissipated.
There is no morning juggling dance
Just your shape in my memory, an impression waxing grey
As I wonder how it would be to live with you for a day.
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ZHDAT
Autumn leaves swept into loose piles
Discoursing on future dreams
Fluttering anticipation
Kisses beneath a stream.
Waiting is lonely merriment
Waiting is the dear friend of tomorrow's anticipation.
The architect of dreams, the silver lining of
mundane, everyday things.
Traveling across pale blue skies, streaked with orange, yes and pink,
in the middle of the day
retreating or advancing into the dreams of the now, it is hard to say.
I challenge myself in forbearance.
To not eat, not love, not kiss, not think, just be.
Such is waiting, being, not thinking, not breathing, not striving, not trying
But
not
ceasing.
Waiting is an ING, an investment in cultivating.
A gerund they like to say, which denotes the act of carrying out an action
I am always waiting.
Waiting to start, to stop, to go, to come back.
Waiting is the defining action, the ultimate in between step, the common thread.
It is Xenus, who always is, but is not.
Each action is waiting for the next.
Waiting is the pregnant nano dot that created the Universe.
Waiting is hope filled with expectancy, not given up.
She is my good, constant friend. On her shoulder I rely,
She is my solace that it is not over. The one that brushes my hair a hundred times to a beautiful sheen, the one that gives me to nights filled with looking at jewelry and old outfits, and we giggle over make believe wedding fantasies and dreams.
She cries with me at broken hearts, like broken beads, and she is also silent assurance.
The constant.
Waiting is all these which greet me daily, waiting is being.
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THE COFFEE CUP
Rainy holiday morning
The loan seagull soars to the
accompaniment of the solitary car crinkling down
the still asleep street
The coffee cup drips amidst the
incessant trickling of heaven's
baptism.
Even the ant seeks shelter in his tiny hill
Soaked, drenched, frozen, but alive
I sip the darkness, like a vampire.
The warmth spreads and infuese my
veins, down into my belly, igniting fire
I cradle the cup like a babe who
is nursing, and enjoy the lonely seagull
soaking in the peace-infused morning.
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BREAKFAST
A fast of silence, a fast from life
Breakfast time is the rude awakening of reality.
Breakfast is when children are once again
told that pigs don't fly. When mortgages resurface. Jobs loom ahead and desires are covered beneath mounds of honey oats and milk, a way of trying to sweeten the bitter pill of reality.
Let me live in the time before. When everything is on the cusp, when the promise of a new day, hope, excitement, anticipation charge the air, when I am walking on water and take me to the hilltop feast with you. Where breakfast becomes a continuation of expectancy, an awakening of dreams.
The sizzle and drip of the kitchen become the violin and snares of a symphony tuning.
Let this breakfast be the overture of possibilities.
I want to see the Pegasus at my door taking me to the valley where people dream awake and the breakfast meal is a holy convoctaion.
Cereal is the bread
The coffee cup is the wine
and we drink in new life.
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