testimony

 I’ve tasted a slow burned romance after the fire was cool

Sipped it slowly and felt it sizzle on dry ic

Wishful thinking

and whiskey gone sour have turned my bittersweet

I have ransomed hope for second guesses and last chances

Memories of you will have to suffice and satiate

the decadence of regret

Until

the substance of my longing quenches the languish in my heart

Until

we collide in another life or a remembered place and time

Until

we see face to face pressed lips and eye to eye

Until God says yes, amen and prophesies the beginning from the end

No matter what I will cling to the essence of you

at the root of my apple tree

at the root of my apple tree

Like Adam and Eve

Like Isaac and Rebekah

Or Ruth and Boaz

Like diamonds and topaz

We were made to believe and conceive the impossible

Promise has a process

And before a seed blooms it’s buried in the ground

A treasure is sometimes lost before it’s found

I am stripped down to the nakedness of my truth

Vulnerable in my conviction to pour out my offering

Even if it means watering the soil where roses never grow

Even if the wind never blows

Summer remembers Spring and Winter never forgets  Fall

My ear is inclined to the whisper of your call

I hear your soul even in silence when it speaks

Deep calls unto deep

Fairytales are laced with knights in shining armor

And fables of fair maidens being swept off their feet

I just want to sit quietly at a dinner table or in a room writing poetry

Sipping tea and watching you breathe

Helping you build the foundation of a blissful eternity

Simplicity distilled down

Two matching crowns

His and her towels

Showered clean in yesterday’s purple rain

Purged and purified in purpose and pain

Sacred in the pursuit to possess the miracle moment

I can’t let go so forgive me if I lied

I tried

You turned my water into wine

My stony heart changed a spirit of heaviness into an oil of gladness

My mourning into dancing

Like embers from a forgotten flame easily kindled with a kiss

Or the brush of skin on chastity’s canvas

Love lasts

I’m a witness and this is my testimony

So let the mountains be removed

And let the power of light fill our dimly lit room

Until the sun and moon declare holy matrimony

Until the fruit of forever is birthed

Until heaven meets earth

The value gained in loving you will never lose its worth.

 

 

fourtwentyonesixteen

sometimes it snows in April
when doves die / purple tears rain
freedom sings a funeral song
music eternal / world changer
peace to the artist formerly
known as fame

     penina’s perfume

A taunting scent that reeks of
false humility / homemade lonely
Afraid to be discovered a fraud
icy hot heart burning on coals
Melting anger
dissatisfied with self-inflicted trauma
Baptized in eau de toilette
married with children
Stinking thinking / and personal problems
Project that shit somewhere else /  lady
You baroness of bitter with barren bravery
You low budget bully / drink your own toxic

I’m happy over here with these ovaries
Soaking in my sweet aroma
Birthing promises through this womb

 

tea time

Haughty homes
Empty rooms filled to clutter
Rusty with ashes of dead relatives
Who jockey for real estate on the mantel
and Martha Stewart wallpaper suffocating the decorum and mummy masquerade
It’s elegant etiquette eating us for dinner
We’ve sacrificed our lives for tea time
none of us bold enough to
mention the Elephant among us
We dare not wrinkle the fabric of falsehood
It’s tradition to shuck and jive the suburbs
slumming for the hope in the ghetto
We host republicans in our homes
Donald Trump and Ben Carson
twerking to Bob Marley
blowing smoke up our asses
We foo foo she she the bullshit
Pinky fingers poised in the air
The la di dah dosie dough
Breaking bread and kissing babies
Government cheese and vino campaign parties /                               getting out the vote vigils
Blah fucking blah

Somebody please assassinate democracy and the right
to be educated fools