Love Symphonic

Crystalline, like lights shine, shimmerin'
Simmerin' on the pot,
desire cooks beneath the fires of want
like works of renown, stroked into being
by the brushes of savants

Beauty, elusive meaning
Love, the ever-gleaming drug; abusive
Lucid as all the dreams archived in detox
Passion pounds starved hearts like a beat-box,
Socks the lungs, creating whispers of oxygen

Withdrawls get us crawlin' back
Smack dab in the middle
of a good cry, violins and fiddles
cat-gut bows fly, sounding one long note
in the key of "Goodbye"

Courage and Ostriches

Red,White and Blue march, lock-step
stars-and-bars, far flung shores
Rage wars, battle-flag waving,
at home, dissenting voice tazing
Democracy to be shared, not
given away; taken away
from the flag-waving egg-laying
ostriches, heads in the sand
in the land of the free people
freedom to choose
corruption in red or blue.

Xanax Love

Love is an abstract, concepts flowing undefined
Unmentioned, lest two hearts doth find themselves
Divergent, like two currents split against the rock
that forks their path.

Can love be said without being shown, as flowers
blossoming while not having been grown
from seedlings, fed sunlight and CO2,
what does it mean to say "I love you?"

Must hurt be always be the fifth wheel,
to feel such anxiety, can love this truly be?
In secrecy, as undeclared goods stowed away
like hidden treasures of passion in the words we say?

Where is she, love, in loneliness cries out,
when heart sinks, stomach knots, and vision drifts south
Envision her to behold; sharp wit, steely eyes
wicked smile, switchblade mouth of enormous size

Can it be perfection's not what I seek,
but a self-assured dynamo, secretly meek?
Secretly shy, but unafraid to shout out to be heard
Seemingly sly, but unafraid to define a simple word?

What is love?