Home...

Home

From here it feels much further then near

But nearer then it has ever been before

This ocean has a different name

Still it reminds me only of the one we once knew

It reminds me that I thought home was a place I could see

A frame, name, constructed to stand

The wind through a window, to leave through a door

I ran to it when the sun went down

Woke in it when it rose again

These waves play the music to a song that I've sung

Each crest rising higher, singing louder

In this place there was a light, and still a darkness

Existing because my eyes could see it

An image with a name

Home

But in seeing I was not feeling

Emotion of a dream I thought we'd lost

Visibly aware

Internally growing blind

It's haunting the feeling of feeling you here

Forever searching, spinning, lost

Found

Unsure what it was I wanted to find

Certain it was a place

Not yet seen

The more I looked the less I saw

The less I saw the more I felt

The more I felt the answers were there

Home has no place, no name, no frame

Still the light, still darkness

Different to know when the looking has ceased

No longer external, suddenly felt

What my eyes had always wanted to see

I feel now in knowing we are never alone

What I always knew

I have been there, we have been there, I will go there

I am there

I want only to blink and on a wave you'll appear

Only to turn, to see it more clear

But closing my eyes the wave is within

The journey began a long time ago

I am already there

The beauty, the fear, everything, always

In you and in me

I am already Home

The Gallery Face...

The Gallery Face

Frozen, no awareness of space nor time

Silhouettes circling, passing

You sit unaffected, silent, still, beautiful

Staring through an image of unkept paint

You see not what I do, not what he does, you see beyond

You have become it, in it

I wonder how, long to know how

Each stroke a word, the face a sentence, portrait a story

It speaks to you, you respond, smile serenely

Hurrying to sketch before the image is gone

A line, an arc, a brow, smudge

Painter to artist, a marriage in time

Though a thousand years pass and stand frozen between

It is only him that is with you

No mention of the onlooker floating behind

Peering silently over shoulder, breath down your spine

Awe of the woman you are,

Daring to know you, scared to be with you

Competing with a canvas for a moment in time

Stepping back, observance, love

A forbidden threesome only he can see

He brushes past you and floats on

Your only heart bound to the page, to the paint

A line, a hair, a head

You create to remember

You create to forget

A final stroke, eyes still motionless

They speak with you, subtle words, honest words

Stop

An elastic snaps silently, blinking becomes still

Sounds like the wildest storm, without a single word

What you found you fear you've lost

I assure you not

We watch, motionless, captivated

Your movements soft, falling from atop, floating from below

It is in this moment

Forever here, forever gone

Pencil encased, another white sheet washed

Drowned in the memory, the moment

The light recedes, your heart dims though never black

One touch

Reaching for you, through you

In you we all dance on

.j

Fate Exists In Color...

There is a force that emerges as light rushes through

It swiftly slides beneath me, moving with me

It pushes against the timid Souls of my feet

It has no name, no face, no frame

Yet it upholds me with the strength of a thousand arms

Each step is met with subconscious intention

A path of silken feathers, strung out across the velvet sea

I am weightless, restless, I am grounded

Each step inching higher to a place I thought only the gods could see

Footprints vanish as quickly as they appear

No trace of here I’ve been, no path to where I’ll go

There is a song I can hear, the words unknown

It has been forever playing though forever gone unheard

Right, then left, direction to reveal the hidden

Left, then right, a taste of what seemed forbidden

This force elevates, it penetrates

The hands of a giant, wrapped firmly around me

Enveloping the fate I once feared

Still climbing, near jumping, almost floating

Release

But one cannot fall with no hole to sink into

Once vast and hollow, bottomless, deep

The space no ceases to exist

It is a shiny surface, reflecting my dreams across a quickly approaching sky

Suspended above, these eyes stare back at me

I know them, but it is the first time we have met from up here

Do you remember me?

Piercing through this space, gazing past infinite

Will you show me?

Questioning this fate, intent to grasp and elevate

Do you trust me?

Fate exists in color, color only our hearts can see

Is this how it feels to be Free?

.j