To my father
(2013)
Beloved goddess, sweet holy mother of us all, you who beckon me throughout these hectic days
It was in those early days when everything seemed technicolor there was that explosion only inward then nothing
Are you the one I have no words f… Are you the one who seeks the space between these lines? I used to think I’d know you inst… Now I don’t know anything at all.
I cried again today, and I did not die. I even know why it is I cried today. Because the truth
Why are you here ? Where did you come from ? Why have i been cursed with one so radiant and true ? There’s no time for your curious m…
I come to the village well today, though without a need to drink. My worldly thirst now quenched, with home and hearth supplied. I am here to fill a deeper vessel
trust the one who seeks the truth doubt the one who says he’s found…
Sweet Mary Jane bade me follow where she led. I went eagerly. She was my life’s one true love. All the others,
Who’s gonna throw my pitiful ashes into the holy mother Ganges? Who’s gonna hold it as their sacre… Who’s gonna know the need for this… I’ve seen so many nameless shadows
Not a poem. I hurt; like a Frankenstein monster. Iron fist. Unrelenting.
Clawing away. It’s dark here, chill and dank. Can’t stop now. Can’t stop ever.
I’m not really here right now. I can only be here when no-one’s a… and I know no-one can see me. Even when i speak to you, I’m sort of not really here.
Water ever seeks it’s perfect peace, from mountain heights to scattered oceans deep. So too our spirit follows
The storm is brewing. I smell it in the air. I am panicking. I can barely breathe. I fear this tempest
Hello, can you see me here? Please, might you stop awhile. I am the one you pass by daily as you hurry homeward bound. I am that one who’s least of us.