Windswept

From miles away,
I'll sing a song of comfort
If it has half a lucky chance
Of making you smile.

I'll write a thousand lines
Of heartfelt song and verse
To sing your soul
Into a peaceful ocean's bliss.

So the sea breeze can carry,
Across the steady swells,
All of my love
And all that I feel.

So these words of adoration
Homesick for lack of you,
Can whisper through your hair
And slip into your heart.

I'll do anything,
My only love,
To make you happy
And cwtch your soul.

Depth

I know you're scared
And that the surface
Seems far far away
And that it feels
Like the sharks are circling
With the creatures
Of the depths
Holding tightly on
Refusing to let go
But there is light up here
In the world above
And I am here...
Reaching out...
Holding on too...
Hoping...
You will come up for air.

The Ocean of Deep Transcendent Love

Deep inside me,
Where only you have been,
There is an ocean
That is ours
And ours alone -
A place of peace
And rest,
Where weary bones
May sleep
Curled in each others' joints.

The water is calm and patient
A thing of many years
A wellspring
For the hope
That dispatches all our fears.
Lie here with me,
Upon this floating isle,
Lie with me a moment,
Rest here awhile.

There's a fire burning in me -
A fire you ignite.
There's a fire burning in you -
The flame of our love's light.
The sky at the ocean's end
Glows gloriously
And pushes her black veil back
To show
The flame of our love,
Sparks scattering across the sky,
Filling the heavens with stars -
Just to tell
Of this meeting
Of two incandescent souls
That have set the world aflame.

A single candle burns,
As the wind blows its flame to sea,
The wind that calls to us
And puts us at ease.
Our souls are filled with light
As we melt into each other,
Like two oceans flowing together,
Under a starlit canopy.

You have turned me
Into a seeker
Not only after you
But of the universe -
I will scour the heavens
In search of beautiful things
To bring back to you
To experience your joy
In them,
In me.

There is a serenity
That radiates
From within our conversations -
A peace that comes,
From our two souls,
An electrifying spark arising at the contact -
That spreads out into the world
Changing space and time
And the future.

This time-line is confused
And wraps itself
Around itself
As our love folds it
And twists it
Bending the universe -
This sea of electric impulses -
To its unchanging will.

Conspiratorial whispers
Flit about on the wind
As it blows through the world
And our souls,
Calling you and me
Into a future that is ours.

The Unknown

We cast off...
Surrender ourselves to the winds,
Hoping to find a way home
Or at least to safer shores
And, maybe, a storm will catch us,
And upset this flimsy raft...
But, maybe, that chance must be taken.

I hope I find you
When the wind dies down,
Rather than sleep in a watery grave,
Dead and unloved
For lack of you

And until that day,
When hope comes answered,
Look for me in the sea,
The wind will whisper you my love.

Mystery Isle

The sea swings
To a soft, steady beat.
A calm, exploring wave
Licks the sandy shoreline.

I stand upon the cliff
And stare out to the horizon
And hope,
That my message, at last,
Finds it way to you -
My soul enclosed,
As my heart beats in me.

In the absence of you
I sit and wonder,
What would it be
To hold your hand,
To look into those eyes
And lose myself
In the sea of your thoughts.

I see you as I saw you first
Those few days ago -
The ocean rests
In jewels upon your delicate neck
And behind those black eyes,
Silent in their splendour.
Fires burn in the depths of you
A place of hidden beauty,
Locked away and kept silent,
A secret part of your heart.

I know not what it is
That draws my heart to you
Only that is so strong -
A force I cannot resist.

The Straits of Stability

Upon this pristine shore
Walks an elven maiden
With long strides but slow -
There is no time in heaven.
And beside her perfect form
Walks her love, a man,
With stride matched for stride,
Just a different span.

As one follows the lines,
The other goes between
And the moon shines 'pon water
That fades before the sheen
Of smiles and radiant glow
That lights their holy night
One of many, come and gone,
Part of futures bright;
Of love burning in earnest,
A rare and true gift
A mark of the thing
That makes heart and soul lift.

A starlit night glistens
And shimmers out in space
As the waters flow between us
Making heart and soul race
Two stars are caught up
In the vortex of love so warm
And the universe expands
In a way unlike its norm.

We walk through cobblestone lanes
And to the sea shore
We walk down starlit avenues
And then, walk some more.
My hand is locked in yours,
The place where it belongs,
Held behind your back
As we walk along.

We kiss
Though we planned not to
We kiss
Because we know we ought to
Hold each other close,
Drinking in each others' smile
Breathing in so deeply,
Staying still awhile.

And the skies
They whirl above us,
As the winds
Blow down to greet us
Lifting our souls up
To a purple-black canopy
As if they needed lifting,
So buoyant are we.

So we go ahead,
And make our way
To a quiet little cove -
A cafe held above the grime
Of a city of old.
We stare out across the bay -
Lovers lost in their view,
Sipping coffee
That's neither too sweet nor bitter,
Just like us two.

Your eyes shine as you look to me,
As way back then, they shone,
And your lips glisten as they part
And press against my own.

The Dreaded Gulf of Fearfulness

Alone I stand upon a precipice
And look upon the rocks
That litter the landscape
That's been my life.
Alone I stand, as do you
Upon facing cliffs
Across a wide ocean
That you dare not cross
For fear of who-knows-what.
You see me,
But you look away,
As I stare out towards you.
I know you've seen me,
I see your eyes.
But do you know I see?
You want to turn
And look again,
But you don't.
Why? You can't? You won't?
Why? Is it fear?
Is it not enough?
Is it too much?
You look at me
But avoid my eyes,
Windows to this soul of mine.
Are you afraid to see me as I am -
Just a man who loves you,
Enough to change time and space,
Though flawed he is
And always will be?
Or are they mirrors
That reflect only your uncertainty
And doubt, and fear,
And who-knows-what?
Look at me across this sea
As I look to you,
Look to me.
Look into these eyes, and see
Look, please look...
Trust me.

A Secret Part of My Heart

In a secret part of my heart
Where awe and reverence mingle
Where gods could exist,
Or fairies and elves even,
A whisper sometimes stirs
The hairs upon my neck
And raises armies of goosebumps
On my arms and flesh.

In a chamber locked away,
Where the world can't get at it
(Nor the idle hordes
Hold their sway
Against the beauty of this),
A wind sometimes blows,
Where the world is no longer flat,
Through the undulations and the folds
Over your skin
And through your hair
And over the ocean
Inside of your eyes.

In a secret part of my heart
Where only you have been,
And only you belong,
A light shines on forever,
A light that never dims.

Something Heavenly

I used to retreat
To a cave -
My own private growlery,
Full of the stuff
That loses it's sheen,
That goes to dust.
And verse and word
And poetry
Were but means
To free from me
The demons and pains
That clutched my soul,
The things that broke,
The empty holes.
But then you came
And word and verse
And musical lyrical rhapsody
Became the norm -
An ecstasy
Of words and their ocean,
For my soul to be -
Calm and drifting,
Ne'er at sea.
So I'll lose the cave
And it's misery,
And wrap myself,
Instead,
In your mystery
To elevate these words,
These feelings, these thoughts
To something more,
Something heavenly.

The Sea of Ignited Passion

We start off quiet,
We always do,
With looks and words
And minds in tune.
We drift off quickly
Upon the swell,
Lost in each others' hair,
Each others' smell.
I am lost
In the taste of your kiss -
A half-chewed apple piece
Mashed 'tween lovers' lips.
And I whisper to you:
The velvety words
That make your hair
Stand on end,
The quiet, urgent words
That make your pulse go quick,
The soft, stroking, longing words
That languorously swim about you,
Swimming you into rapturous ecstasy.

I want to crawl inside of you
To get inside your bones
To melt into your skin
To be a part of every fibre of you.
So the wind rushes by,
As the world's breathing quickens
And, in little gasps and bursts,
Teases our ears.
And your nails dig into my back
As we dig deeper into each other,
As we ignite as one -
Two golden dragons
Leaping from a mountain top,
As the seas boil and bubble
Trying to keep up
In our rolling wake.
Churning, heaving,
The seas move with us
Ebbing and flowing
To a heavenly beat.
We feel ravenous,
Surrendered to desire
Though this be more than that.
And I feel my soul,
As I melt away,
Dripping out of my skin
And into yours.

Set in Stone

I know that it is scary
And that the world is hard.
I know that things don't work out
Even when you do your part
And I know some things
Just aren't
The way we wish they were
But some things,
Like us,
Are beautiful.
So remember,
When you think
That things won't change for the better,
That nothing is set in stone,
That no relationship is static,
That love is a movement,
And that we have moved
And will move
Together -
Two swimmers in tandem.

The Cliffs of Longing

Upon a rocky shoreline
Above the surf's foaming
Whispers,
Where the world seems a distant nothing
Stretching on forever,
I came across a maiden,
An elven beauty, pure,
Whose presence
In the world
Blessed that rocky shore.

One glimpse,
One look,
One word,
And I am possessed -
A siren call
Upon ocean winds,
Who bear
Her sweet caress.

How I long
To talk those eyes to life,
To lose myself
In those black pools, those gems
Silent in their splendour,
To burn in adoring flame
If only to mirror the light in them.

But night arrived
And darkness took you away.
The shore seems empty,
The rocks forbidding,
The night's gone cold,
The moon has gone astray.

What is this thing
That ties me to you?
The meal is dreary
And takes forever.
I wish I'd stayed at home,
If only to have heard from you
To know where you were
And that you wanted me
So I could come to you.

How much worse is it,
That this vision,
This elven princess
With bright pixie eyes
And a mischievous,
Thoughtful twinkle,
Should not be here today.

And all I can think of
All I can speak of,
Is one thing,
One thought
One pretty pixie's smile.
The dinner is over,
And still no sign of her.
The talk upon the table
Is wasted 'pon my ears.

Ever since I saw you,
I've longed for your smile
Your eyes alight and dancing
As you hold my hand awhile.

Three days have past
And another chance was lost
And now I can wait no longer
So a message in a bottle
I send forth in hope:
That though oblique,
My aim be right and true
No matter the obstacles;
That it find its way to you.

And so I wait
And hope
That tomorrow will come
And you with it.

Oceans of Peace

We found a giant shell once,
Of a coconut hollowed out.
So we dragged it to the water
And pushed off in it together.
We smiled,
Lay back,
Legs entwined,
In that little brown bowl upon the sea
And if we bothered to look out,
Which we did,
Though not too often,
We'd see a blue expanse of peace
Reaching the horizon
And flowing on beyond it,
Stretching from Mystery Isle,
Unto the Cliffs of Longing,
And down past the Dreaded Gulf of Fearfulness,
Right till the Cape of Abundant Hope,
And past, on, to the Straits of Stability,
Which joins the Ocean of Deep, Transcendent Love
To the Sea of Ignited Passion.
And so, our gaze would drift along,
Flying upon the breeze,
And swimming with the tides so strong,
Cross the seven seas -
One, each, for a day,
That marks the passing week,
One, each, for a way,
In which our joy we'd seek:

Sunday's peaceful slumber
In your arms so warm and loving,
A home formed deep within us,
Two hearts together, beating.
Monday's holding back,
Because we know, somehow,
Within you and within me,
That the week will catch us up,
Buoyed upon its breakers,
Thrust together we'll be.
Then Tuesday will come
And, our strength worn thin,
Eyes locked
In heartfelt conversation -
To longing
We'll surrender
And to love
And one another.
Wednesday'll come and we'll go,
Lost in each others' swoon,
The oceans heaving and sighing,
As we pass the brightened moon.
Thursday will come and we'll try,
A battle never won -
To pull back and swim against
The currents' egging on.
But again we'll fail,
No matter how we try,
And be swept along like seaweed
Towards the eastern sky.
Friday will dawn
And we'll smile our
Smile of happy lovers, lost
In the glow of who they are.
By Saturday, our love
Will need its own expression
In energetic release
Of more than conversation
And, like a thunderous
Wild, mad storm,
We'll rock this makeshift dinghy
And be drifting along - Suspended,
Hanging, in the air -
Floating, almost
Upon the love we've shared.

Ocean Swells

Currents flow between us
Carrying more than words ever could
We speak with hands and mouths,
With eyes and gentle lips,
With arms and legs and fingers,
With knees and toes and hips.
There's peace upon this subtle swell
As we stare past the horizon
And deep into each other's world
As it dawns upon us.
So we find ourselves,
Drifting on an ocean wind
And trailing our searching hands
Into the waves behind
And we hold our hearts to each other
Offered 'pon gilded platter,
Our fears put on view
Our vulnerabilities unlocked -
I trust you,
I love you,
I hope you will not hurt me -
And then, we lean apart
As each needs their time
To tend to such as ours
And what is ours alone
But then, we take a breath
And realize at once,
Apart we never were,
We drift together again.