Symmetry.

Tonight I laughed so hard until I cried
I saw the apple in your hand
And was reminded of the one in my eye
Then you pointed to the sky

You spoke of the four moons orbiting Jupiter
While expressions of sheer awe
In this moment of contemplative theatre
Unfolded across our faces
Lighting our eyes
With the same stars that adorn galactic spaces

That dot there, in your telescope
Now aligning with the pupil of your eye
"It's all just space," you said
"The same space that exists inside you and I."

And in that space
I lay down my fears
After years
Of trying...

A bite of your apple
- You held it out to me
"As proof,
that anything is possible"...
And we looked at that piece of fruit
As if it were the only truth
As if it were god
Smiling sarcastically
Yet, honoring this moment with a silent nod...

Oh, how we laughed so hard until
I found myself crying
Hand over heart
Walking home in the dark

Nothing stays the same...
Turns out
We'd underestimated the family we became
In a parallel universe
Oceans apart from a home I once knew...

I wrestled sea serpents to get here
Pirates of my past
With parrots on their shoulders
Whispering back to me, my doubts
And insecurities
Trying to thieve...

But I wrestled them
I wrestled them to come here
To find my inner-Eve
And awaken her creation
And turns out

She doesn't rely on an Adam

Now on the brink of the unknown
"Nothing's written in stone
Anyway," you'd said...
As we'd watched that last tube slither home
Away into the night
Along with any debri of doubt
About what might
Or might not be
Leaving you and me on the platform
Talking about symmetry.

Ἶσις : I Am Found.

What will become of me?
Of this old life in hiding?
Long time now
I have imagined
Such a day of freedom
A life of wielding
The sword of a more truthful expression
A more honest way forward
Whispering the sounds of Isis
A fearless love
The kind that brings doubt to its knees
As it weeps
Burning with tears of fire
From the stars I've been keeping alive in my eyes
All these years
All these galaxies
Kept safe in the vast space of the heart
Echoing:
It's time to let go of gravity
It's time let go of the world as I've known it...

The Island.

Oh how I've twisted and I have turned
Oh how I have defended all these burns
Caged in scars
I let them become bars
These cells I've been pacing back and forth in
This old skin
Now shed alongside liberating tears
After all these years
Of living in
Wards
And robed
In skeletons
Behind closet doors
I've not been celebrating
The truth behind these walls
Since your defacing...
But now I see the depths in which I was submerged
Having now emerged
Having been urged
Onward in this journey
By the memory
Of an island
Now, no longer
An exotic escape in my mind
But here
Now
Soaking and smiling
I fall to my knees
The sensation of sand
Dry and solid land
Eyes shut
I wake up
To find my lungs made of trees
And a body made of land
These hands
Now a coastline
Washing myself free from the ocean that was you
Rinsing you out
After all those crashing waves
You delivered blow by blow
You had me rolling in my shell
You knew how to make me crawl back in
Keep quiet, not make a fuss
Zipped up
Clammed up
But all this time inside I was just
Making a pearl
And there was a time you made me
Believe it to be false
But this oasis was
True
You stole a lot
But you never took my pulse
Nor could you take away
The mer from this maid
Nor the siren from her sea
For she's a water spirit
Made for swimming free
Circling this castaway island
Now, me
Rising up
With a heart made of volcano
She erupts
To let me know
I am one again with my true nature
And no longer lost in your shadow.

Pictures.

We're all in this alone
Together
We're all just refections
Of one another
Looking back from a universal mirror
Moving as one
Yet, fragmented by the illusion
Of 'the other'...
So, in pieces
We search
In pieces
We try to resurrect the picture
Looking for representations
For something we've never seen
But can somehow remember
Through each other...
But,
We are the picture!
And the earth, our frame
For this expression of something
That has no name
Yet when it called us 
We came
Vulnerable and alone
But raised to be together.

The Word Hollows.

verses lost and found
these words
verses on the ground
I pick them up
even though most days I'm down
cos' they cheer me up
these words
are all I got lately
these words
and the friends I share 'em with
- the pith, the core of my existence
that is;
these words plus all of you
equals to
the sum of the love
I keep safe
for you
keep safe
in these sentence cases
and stored away in the quiet spaces
of the heart
only to be opened up
in brief moments of truth
little portholes by which I can escape
this occupational route
escaping down the burrows of poems
away from the furrowed brows and doldrums
of the nine to five
escape and feel alive, again
this is the freedom I find
at the end of my pen
for one sweet moment a day
when the wind whispers to me and my ear bends
to catch the words I find
before I become lost again
lost, searching to give meaning
lost and wandering around
among all these verses on the ground.

We Are The Dreamers.

We are the dreamers
You and I
We are the dreamers
Inside these shells we call humans
We are here, just being
Sparkling and believing
Whispering and imagining
What is beyond physically seeing
While our human nature
Parades all these things
- Always they are seeking
To capture, even a snapshot
Of the rapture
Of what it is, we are dreaming
In their physical forms
To have and to hold
Some of our human counterparts
Will grow old
Manifesting what we've whispered to them
Their whole lives
But at least they have tried
To create, to challenge
To bring into form, the inner beauty
Of this dreamworld from which they were born
Before they die
Before returning home to you and I
For we are the dreamers
And only through you
Do we wake up...

Throwing Caution. Being Wind.

I have played the caution
And life, she has always been the wind...
Winding and breathing
Her force through me
And yet I,
Many times have resisted this natural flow
Trying to control...
Until now.
Now, I perch as the owl
In the hollows of the footsteps I have taken
These markings in the ground of a new found wisdom
Now, my new spectacles
For curious observation
Before knee jerk reaction
Yes!
Conscious
I am
Now,
Calm
I am
Now,
And beyond my own storm
I can
See
That old story, thundering on the horizon
See
What was
Has no bearing on what will be...
As long as I 'let it be'
And that storm, it will continue to crack
And rage around me
Such is the nature of situation
Such is the nature of circumstance
But, beyond their theatrical dancing
Beyond their drama
These days I'm aware of a door
Somewhere...
And a window
To a house that guards a steady, flickering glow
From a fire I've been stoking my whole life
Building a flame
That owns not my name
But my body to animate
To orchestrate
It's heat
Winding and breathing
It's way through me
With every heartbeat
This natural flow
It grows and grows
Now, far stronger than my caution
For life, she is the wind I must follow
And all this tired caution I must throw
To her wind
To the fire
Let it scatter
To her flame
That owns not my name
But now, engulfs my body with it's passion to live
Never to be the same...

Wanderlust.

Empty
I make space for listening
Alone
I am aware of this space
And whether I've grown
Enough
Love for myself?
It hurts!
To ignore the fire
My face is cold from looking away
Exposed
To the elements of my true nature
Now
I can't hide
Decide
I must...
Be truth
Follow the wanderlust...

Shedding Skins.

Shedding skins
Shedding tiresome weight
In exchange for wings
For lifting
Up
To where the air is fresh
And unknown
Beyond the stagnant pond
Of habit
I see it's reflection now
And it's not me
Just an illusion I once created
Hid away
Because I was scared of being free
But no more...
I wake from the dream of fear
That is,
Fear of dreaming
How absurd
To clip the wings of this bird!
There are no sins
Just lessons learned
For growing wings
To see things
From higher up
See them fall
As I rise up
From shedding skins.

That Was Then, This Is...

Patterns of who I was
Are changing
Old belief systems
Are crumbling
And here's me
Disorientated and stumbling...
See you on the other side
Of this new moon.