To Be Embraced Like That

Do you know what it is like to be held
Close, and tender
An all encompassing embrace?

The kind where your hearts align
And suddenly you feel an incredible expanse
As though you feel the whole Universe between you two
Emanating out...

The kind which surrounds you with warmth
And pours it within
Reaching a deeper dimension
Where it doesn't stay limited to a physical feeling

The kind where you're so connected your Souls touch
To exist untouched by anything else
In a consortium of joy
Love, and exalted harmony.

Where you actually feel what it is to lose yourself in the moment
In that feeling
In the sheer breadth of that space in time
Experience the moment live and breathe with you
And gently sigh with the weight of the shared calm you both hold.

To be embraced like that

Clasped,

To live like that, in a compound moment -

I think that's what we need.

Shades of Grey

Can we be shades of grey
I want to live in your spectrum
Rejoice in the sunlight of your smile
And to wipe away your frown
When you're trapped in anger
Can I swim in your peace
And we can divide the melancholy bits
Can we live it all
Without having to choose
Can we be simple and complex
Can we be shades of grey?

Would you let me in
When you're feigning bravery
And let me shoulder some of your pain
You don't have to do this alone
Let yourself fall
And allow me to gather your fragile fragments
I'll piece you back together
With my love and strength as the glue.
And I'll be your banister as long as you need one
No matter how steep your life's stairs are
And don't be a fool
You need someone to hold on to
Just don't fight it
And hold on to me
I will see you through

Let us quarrel
Argue till we're spent.
Go ahead
Cut me with your words
Let it out
Let me be your release
It's OK
I'll get back up again

Grant me audience to your laughter
I will sync my smile with yours
I will fuel your amusement
And afford you further reason to chuckle.
And the sun may set
And rise beyond the morning
But we will be constant
In mirth
I guarantee it

Come
I have happiness to spare
Let us bask in the breadth of this joy
And let it envelop us
Till we don't know where I end and you begin.
We can fly
On this magic carpet of bliss
Such a things exists
And I will take you there

And when you're cold
And weak
And falling out of strength
Unlock the door
I will surround you with my care
And heal you back to stability.
There is no disease
That my love can't cure
And I will lay me down
So that you can stand back up

When you crave stillness
I will halt
When you desire solitude
I will disappear
I understand space and silence
And how it will replenish you
I will give you what you want
Even if I can't give it to you

If I feel you, I feel it all
It can't be just the merriment
Or the misery alone
And I don't want to choose
To only love you
Or not to love you at all.

Can we not be black and white?
Can we be shades of grey?

Oh Tear Ones

"Please help me weep," she asked the tears

"It's not fair that you fill me so

Let me redeem my sanity in exchange

For the hurt you carry

And need to express.

Listen
Even the clouds offload

The rain outside is playing her music

To coat my sobs

And pull a curtain over the silence.

You have nothing to fear, oh Tear Ones

No one will discover where you fell

Or of your passage

They hold wisdom not

Of your existence so far

From oblivion you will emerge

And into oblivion you will sink

These hands will wipe away

And remnants of the trails you leave behind

Please

Just come

Sing
Weep."

Changed

He stands upright

Yet leaning

Hinting for support to the energies around him

He's taken a large stone to the heart

Catching him off guard

And he watches helplessly as the cracks radiate out

Even beyond his being

Leaving him shattered

Yet standing.

A whole world in his life has been demolished

And all he can do is watch

Witness

As it lays whimpering before him

Sighing in agony

Chipping away at him

With each breath.

He's swimming in the arrhythmia of his surroundings

Attempting to search for a solution

Looking for any sign of hope

Before the night mists over.

He wants to count on Time

To play sport

And throw him a few chunks of Its endless stream

Stretching the Now

To help him salvage what he can.

He wants to coat a balm

Over all the loss

And all those about him

Who are enduring a reality

Asymmetrical to anything they ever imagined.

He can see the pain

Beneath their brave smiles

He can sense the defeat

Hidden in their eyes

And especially the fear

Of the uncertain road ahead -

Its practically tangible in air.

But he knows

He cannot allow himself to disintegrate

Not right now

Time will provide for that later.

Right now

He must concentrate his focus

Unsplinter his Spirit within

And wake his resources

As the dusk around him begins to sob.

On his shoulders rest the tears of many

Whose Earth has been pulled out from under them

And who lie

Shivering

Among the rubble

Half wanting to assimilate into it

To escape the effort of re-establishing themselves

Half searching for support

In the only thing remaining standing

No matter how frail.

He wasn't waiting for Change

But now that it's here

Staring him in the face

He needs to do more than just stare back.

It might take a few moments

To reassemble his strength

But he will translate into that Fire

Majestic in potential

Blazing with resolve

And soldier on

Rebuilding what he can restore

And creating fresh what he cant.

He'll pick up what's fallen -

Possessions, emotions, energy..

Be the crutch to the unstable heart

Be the scaffolding to the unsettled mind

Be the pillar to the broken Spirit -

He will just Be

Allowing his Light to comfort the affected

Sharing his heart and hands

In blind support.

He may never attain the perfect solution

And things may never be the same again

But he never learned how to give up

And one way or another

He will phoenix from all the anguish

More resilient on the other side

More solid from within

Healed to breathe and beat once again

Revitalized

Changed.