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I will not admit I love you

Even though that is what I feel

For fear of feeling like every other

Who did feel something so real

I will not say I love you

Even though I truly do

For that is to speak a word too often spoken

to One I wish to offer something new

I will sing no more ballads

Though love drives me to verse

For every song tells the same

However long or however terse

So I will just keep silent

And revel in the quiet pleasure

That no one feels about you quite like me

That is both my gift and my treasure

My ocean and my sea

Weeds

Sickened by disease; Taken root so deepWhose tentacles seize; My soul’s infinite sweep To every crevice and recess; It’s chilling fingers caressCreeping further still; till I find no restGroping silently in night within, to rid what I detestI find myself…
October 2, 2024

No Words

To beauty capture, no greater world did I findThan the cadent word, the cantic rhymeTo give expression to the ineffable, depth to that unfathomedAll of beauty, great and small, thus embodiedI stand speechlessUnable to find the words for He who…
October 2, 2024

Arrival

Two things true, when unassuming do ensueWhen thy search for why be overWill sincerity be your portion trueWhen thy faults to look at anotherLeave no occasion, will ensueOpens swiftly humility’s door
October 2, 2024