To love puppies
and sunsets sinking slowly
in an artist's palette sky
These I know how to smile to
For nothing there pushes
or pinches or hurts or
cuts and takes away.
But, I want to love
only love....
So, off I go...
looking....
for darkness and shadows,
hurts and pains, losses and deaths.
Making aloneness and loneliness
my right eye and left
to map and unearth
to drop sink deep,
deep within the depths of no safety,
to bite into the bitterness,
of the desolateness in wanting purpose,
pointlessly, gently snuffed out
in a breath
Can I smile a smile
of embrace and surrender
to this dimension of love in manifest?
Shadows make a butterfly
and a battlefield.
