I set aside my passions
Waiting for your hand
Dancing in the silence
A lost and broken man
I gladly fell asleep
Denied the rising tide
Waited on the shore
For the moment you’d arrive
I changed my whole vibration
To be in tune with you
Hoping for a moment
When you would see the truth
I risked my life on chances
Forgot forever’s way
For just one final dance
Just to hear you say…
One word…
Yes.
decades of fury
tamed through calm winds
flowing through
polished brass
polished jazz
color, exploding
miseries, exploited
forever, tasted
a moment, left
in the safe arms
of polished
jazz
tired, retired,
swept up
but reborn each night
in the smokey halls
on 3rd Ave.
downtown
upstairs
polished
jazz
On first contact
Your gaze
Stilled me
My once clear mind
Journeyed
Into the flames
Of fever’s catalyst
Your striking presence
Unquenchable strength
Unmitigated dangers
Lost
In the moment
Of you
You are etched in my soul
Your hidden passions burn
My fantastic imaginings
Our fears abandoned
Our flames dancing
Burning respects’ need
As deconstructed walls
Reveal
Our true selves
Sweet moments of intimacy
Foreshadowing two hearts
Swords, shields, armor
Melting away
Found in the moments
Of humbled truths
Fever’s catalyst
Impassioned reactions
Instinctual longings
Merging in flames’ colors
Red, yellow, orange, blue
Striking white
Explosive desires
Met and exchanged
In a moment shared
In a moment
Of chosen
Weakness
Temptations abandoned
Tempestuous dawning
Touching your soul
Writhing in wonder
Granted the pleasure
Of you
Fever’s catalyst
Combining two souls
Pleasure’s sweet rising
Exploding in a moment
A wish, a desire, a glance
A look, a fantasy, a chance
Universes blooming
Ecstasies found
Fires, lit, quenched, lit
Unmitigated burning
Surrendered, in perfection
With you
Wretched indecision
Dawning indiscretions
Wanting imprecisions
Lusting for the truth
Moments’ lost enchantments
Reaching for the knife
Clawing at the windowsill
Dreaming a dreamer’s life
Passion’s bubbling cauldron
Seeping blood’s fresh calm
Nothing else will still
This moment’s rising dawn
Shocking revelations
Queries forever unspoken
Wonders unaddressed
In the redress of yesterday’s today
Unforsaken platitudes
Unformed seeds of colored thoughts
Malformed impressions
Manifest on the untrodden path
Darkened by the lengthening shadows
Quiet epiphanies
Seeking the vacuum of quiet reflections
Ripples on the pond of eternity
Disturbing the unrealized moment
Of a thought disallowed
A dream disavowed
A quest abandoned
In the blinking moment
Of doubt
