Jewel

Seeing you
For the first time
Unfiltered,
Unaltered,
Raw,
Unaware of your power
To inspire
Love,
that moves mountains,
Change,
that alters the course
of rivers, deeply scored into rigid earth,
Reignite a
heart,
Staggered by daggers
and swords
To beat a new message forth…
Seeing you for the first time
Is a moment of recognition,
The fervant phasing thru body of
Lifetimes
Into a solitary infusion point of
Rebirth
I have loved you before,
Now,
Forever.
Without a word spoken…
I am seeing the necessity of
This calamitous condition of unearthing
Self worth,
Raising eyes,
And expectation
That I might gaze beyond
The minute world,
Look up
And discover you
My universe…

~D.E.

Reaching You

Already there,
Already aware,
That some love changes things
-calculated ripples ring
Through space and time
Already know
the day
When you and I
have become…
Soft, this place with you
Safe, this space
where words confessed bear fruit,
Heal wounds,
Present days break through
-Past
Trust issues
-Life adjusts for truth
This is the good place.
And, I
find us,
In the only way I could-
With you, Always…

~D.E.  ’19

Writer’s Block

Wandering girl,
You begged me to tell your story,
Because you said you could just tell by the look in my eye,
that I loved you..
Could do justice to-all of your regrets…
So,
everything exceptional
about you
I wrote down in black and blue sentences
inside my weathered journal.

You said you liked the way
I lay you down,
Then turned around and
tried to lift you up,
off paper…
Some kind of, snake charming, flute
Player, you said.
Hypnotising,
Something exotic
With your craft
I liked that…
And then, sometimes
When you wanted to
You danced for me, too
Like you did with all those other conquests
That didn’t last…

You would never do that to me, would you, Beautiful? You asked.

My eyes were always on you, while you
Gave away those old stories with your
Body Sway
We stayed locked in the trance, though
Making childsplay
Of something deadly…
You and me
Always caught
Split seconds between song
And silence…
Maybe, a Cobra’s strike
I should have known better…

These days
The music and my pen lie motionless,
There isn’t much room at the bottom of the page, anyway.
So, I’m left with an incomplete story…
Besides that,
I never did ask you your name
And, you never gave it-Beautiful.

~D.E

Night Travels

Goddess of moon,
I am Dreaming…
Coasting cumulus clouds
-casually
drifting in and out…
thoughts-centering
my soul’s rocket
Into
the cashmere softness
Of our shared galaxy

Honing in on
-electrically charged particles in the atmosphere.

This determined ascension
brings me to a high
-breaks gravity
Excites me to Ecstasy
drifts me everywhere you are…

This feels so sensually real,
-I am kissing air
Certain, I can caress
Your light from here…
Heaven yields its dome
And, I am gone
-Shot through sky
Like a star set free
All points of me on fire
and aimed at your night space
I feel at home here,
In your orbit,
Loved in your glow.
We become the bliss of twilight…
A final thought before
Crossing completely into
Celestial-ness…
-Mere mortal lovers must envy this
from below.

~D.E.

Pushing Play

Driving,
headlights scan low against the horizon.
It is nightime
And, snow is falling…
Weighty flakes
Drift dreamily across my path
No one on the road but this whirlwind and me…                                                    This could feel like loneliness
But, it isn’t
Instead, I am struck with soft
realization…
I am journeying, with certain purpose
toward a destination
-Waiting for me
And, I am suddenly in love with the snow…
Loving how it quiets the world
and carpets everything beneath it
with a sense of purity
-beautiful stillness
Then, I know it is because
That is how I have come to love you
Not blind to what is blanketed below
But, grateful
for the myriad ways you are an
Unexpected snowstorm
just on the precipice of spring
blowing in as a wonderland
And asking me to
take my time
On this road,
Tread carefully,
Even on familiar byways
But, mindful
Tomorrow will be warmer…

I am reaching over,
to tune my radio to a love song,
Placing one hand at the top
Of my steering wheel
Leaning back
To relax
and focus fully
on the journey…

~D.E.

Who loves you, baby?

Ah, February!

The month we celebrate 28 days of LOVE in and every fourth year, add one special day, to Leap for it…

But, of those days, none is more worthy than February 14th.

She reigns supreme…

Many a grand gesture…

In truth, I had a post all prepped and ready to go in honor of LOVE but, when I woke up, a thought took hold…keep it simple (well, simple for me). Makes sense, I think…

Why not just say it…

Say something…

I would know you…

Out of the blue
I’m lost
Falling head over heels
Stumbling toward
-Adrift in
What I am feeling-
Who is this,
Who whisks me out of the
World and into
The fog?
What otherworldly power has it
She?
To tether me,
in the mist
-at will
Did I choose the course?
Or is,
Such a love
As this
Boundless-
Indefensible,
Intense,
The likes of which
Only soulmates
Would wish
Willingly…
To give up-
Undo,
Undermine,
Risk…
Just
to find
Again, in a place like this?

I can prove to you,
Such a love exists….

~D.E

*Whether you have a love in your life or don’t, whether it is a good love or not so much, it is almost always tethered to how well you are willing to love yourself first…choose wisely.*

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Take to the ledge…

Cue the music…

LEAP!