Whispers at the Precipice

If a whisper shivers down your spine

While your fingers trace the edges

Of a precipice in your soul

And mine,

While you find yourself longing

To just take the plunge

Into this light,

And if that whisper is warm

Like a hand full of stardust

Or one pressed against your back

Or arching feet

Or both,

Pay heed

Dear love

That voice is love's.

Let Me Be The One

Let me be the light that shines in you

Let me fill your eyes

Let me the one that lives for you

Love me into life.

Love me like the ocean swells with peace

Love me without pause

Love me whether winds blow or cease

Let me be the one

Let me be the one that holds your hand

Let me be your guide

Let me show you the promised land

Come into my life.

Come and be the one that shines for me

Come and be my love

Come and let me live in ecstasy

Let me be the one.

This Star Won't Die

If you look carefully,
The shadows will fade away
And the phantasms
That force you
To lock your love away
On hidden cloistered shelves -
The ghostly premonitory feelings
That exist only in darkness
And occupy your mind,
Will release their hold,
Their incorporeal selves.
And this is good
Because, if you look
Through their pall,
While suffocating
Under the shroud of fear,
You may (mistakenly!) assume
That the light is too bright
To be real
And even if it is,
Real and alive and whole,
Even if it's bright and strong and near,
You know the brightest flames
Die fastest...
But do they really?
If you think about it?
If that were true,
If that was it,
Do you really think
That this love would exist?
One occurrence
Of tremendous ignition
Set this universe aflame
It set jewels in the sky at night
(In the day-sky too!)
And stars don't die...
Not quickly, nor easily,
Not in a hundred years,
Not in a lifetime
Like yours or mine.

When I See You

When I see you
I see the god in you
And the god in me sees you too
When I see you
I see beauty
I see life
I see myself
Reflected in an image
That is part me
Part something more -
The parts of you
That do not reflect me,
That add to me,
The most beautiful.
When I see you
I forget
Whether I am looking on
Another person
Or an extension of myself
When I see you
I see love.