WE ARE GOLDEN

Like the early morning sky
glistening in my eye
          we are golden

Like the sun’s midday hue
I am blind without you
          ‘cause we’re golden

Like the glaze that paints day’s end
it’s the radiance you send
          for we are golden

MEMORY LAPSE

I don’t remember leaving the womb
nor do I recall leaving your heart;
yet one was my birth,
the other my death

SPRING TEASE

March can be such a tease…

          If it were a woman
          her aqueous tongue would be
          flitting along my neck like an ant
          tracking a trail of sugar,
          while her hand slithered
          toward my male vulnerability

          And when I would attempt to reciprocate,
          she would curl just out of reach,
          disinterested in the very emotions
          she stirred in the recesses of my gut.

          April, on the other hand--
          ah…April,

          Now there is a month that will go
          all the way.

BULLSHIT & DREAMS

There is a fine filament
between bullshit and dreams
that separates triumph from despair,
reality from fable

For what is bullshit
but dreams led astray,
deluded by fraudulent aspirations,
corrupted by fallacious reasoning

Dreams symbolize the purest of hopes
as yet unstained by the virus
of bullshit that mocks and erodes
and revels in failure

Bullshit is too often
the temptress that lures the innocent
into unsavory scenarios gilded
with grandiose promises of glory and riches

So we must, like adroit tightrope walkers,
negotiate that microscopic filament,
for history is replete with forlorn tales
of those who lost their balance

between
bullshit and dreams