She Knows Who She Is

Her pale cherry hair

From sun's perpetual glow

Berry smell with a hint of smokey swirl, frames the face which holds me in 

Oceans eyes blue

Deep, so deep

The Siren calls me to

Immerse in her endless fathoms

Salty wet, enticing warmth

I want to swim in her gentle gaze

And abandon the shackles of earth

Which impede me from

The pleasures or weightless floating.

To fixate upon these indigo

Beacons of light

Lending their beam,

Keeping me safe within their gaze,

Is only the surface of her embrace.

Within lies my world - the one

For which every soul longs 

And dreams

Where water magnifies the beauty

Of coral reefs laden with colour

The balance of fragile ecosystems, 

Made perfect by time.

No ugliness dwells in this place-

Where I feel I belong.

The surf surges with strength and

Adventure; ruled by

Lemon moon and embering rays

Buoyant but consenting

To dive free

Exploration and discovery 

Of a magical world.

I long to swim.

To plunge naked in a nature

So free

To lie upon the sands so fine

For reprieve, repose and lingering

How can a man not love such an ocean?

Where water replaces air?

What joy this sacred privilege affords

No predators nor those who would destroy

Such a wondrous home!

I wish for a forever within these fathoms

Of liquid embrace

And to hold her with want

And needs fulfilled 

From the sea I came

With harbour scents and humid breeze

The envelopment of mysterious fog,

And to this body, so gentle and fair,

I wish to return

To be free,

Untethered from anchor's

Unforgiving tug

In these blue beacons and holding unrestricted.

I love her, and forever shall

With her pale cherry hair

And swirling smoke smell.

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There is a lady fair with light ginger hair

And my heart is hers alone

Here sea blue eyes over long lashes lie

And free me from despair

Of life's messes and ample stresses

Her smile gives me a rope

To climb up and away from all my dismay

Giving life and love much hope

Her bright smiling face and tender embrace 

Secure me in with the endearments she's said

And it's by her side that I can face the tides

Tumultuous churning and ebb

This soulmate of mine until the end of time

Of passion, pleasure and more

Gives me my rock, absorbing life's shocks

And keeps me safe upon the shore

Night Sky Magic

Night
The stars
Below, below
Wish that I could paint them
The universe that wraps us
In the question of how it all began
Fucking marvelous, that
How can we piss away
In pettiness
Such an amazing thing
As this life?
That which consumes us:
Hate, petulance and war
Summoning sardonic
Attitudes and taking
For granted
Light traveling light years
From stars perhaps extinct
Our own mortality
Linked to these lights,
Indefinite, finite
We shine for only
So long.

Bourbon Fueled Introspective

Self loathing 
Bourbon to my brain
Never could I be a violent man,
Despite my transgressions into that world
The call of duty
The duty to serve
Fuck duty and the guns
I wish I could
With fist raised in anger
Strike those bastards
With knuckled fury
And the hate that they tried to make me feel
I'm tired of this camillion life
We are forced to observe
Where we extinguish our selves
To serve another's purposes
Hating that which it forces us to become.
I want to be a marauder who
Is self sufficient in being and act
I'm weary of belonging when
It makes us deny our being
I don't give a fuck about acceptance
In a world so vain and entitled
Yet I am choking in their hands
Wrapped noose like around my throat
The Cosby Show was all a lie
And fairytale happiness
I fell upon the pickets
Of their white suburban fences
Trying to be a model
Cast from their mould
But I am no one- a cast off
Resigned to dreams never to be real
The family man with no role model
Hated by his young
Alone, abandoned to his fate
I abhor everything-
The greed and myths and lies
My consciousness streams into a river
Consumed by the ocean
Chaffed by salient brine
The salt in my wounds
That says "settle down son,
You're rocking the boat".
I want to smash the boat with my hands,
But never could I be a violent man
Though I crave drowning into another world
In the silke's arms
I long to caress
I long to embrace a forever
Where I am loved and accepted
For who and what I am
I crave the fringe which I skirt
I don't need to belong
All that I am wanting
Is the one
The one who knows me
And expects nothing
Who doesn't judge
Or make me feign a niche
In this ridiculous game
I want to breathe the night
And inhale the stars
Lost in the natural world
Where balance is the monarch
And things that shall be will be
Neither do I seek
To be chicken or egg
But, rather,
Simply be
Mindful and present
In a nonviolent place
For never could I have violent man