Where Night is Not Black

Water cascading warm and silver
Touching skin dark and bare, all over
Together now in pure trance, ecstasy
Lying, touching, holding, beautiful fantasy

Arms pull our warmth close, so close
Touching now, our breaths transpose
Legs like naked vines entwine
In silence, our feelings divine

Two bare chests, pounding life
Louder than heaven’s thunder strife
Soft female flesh with hard male strength
Two become one beautiful wavelength

I’m passing, like a cloak in the dark
Your love has left an eternal mark
Scared my chest beyond covering
My body is still love-sick and recovering

I remember the nights when I held
Hands in yours, your love I smelled
My arms closed around your hips
And I lose my tongue, the word slips

I loved you and I said it loud at night
That night with the shooting stars alight
Confessed my deepest feeling
This love for you, my heart is healing

The sand laps at my feet
Like an ocean of red dust
But barren like burned wheat
My mind is confused with rust

The endless mountains rearranging
Wind blows and refaces the earth
My thoughts always changing
Nothing I think on has any worth

The ships of the desert travel on
Through the storm which rages
But into an abyss many are drawn
Now they are trapped in earth’s cages

My meditation wanders into dangers
Through the never ending sand
Past old friends and toward strangers
Outward I hold my unsuspecting hand

Liquid dark and crimson flows
A chain on my hand falls, wrenching
Through the night I am led with blows
My body dry, my thirst never quenching

Into dreams, my heart is beaten
My mind now in captivity led
No wine, my bondage to sweeten
My body has for hours bled

Let me fall in love with you tonight
Forever I’ll hold you close
With your warm body held to me tight
And you’ll feel what never shows

Soft and beautiful to behold
Suppressed yet vibrant bold
Dark like the night with cloudless skies
How deep the bottoms of your eyes

Moments pass by like tall white clouds
Drifting through the limits and span of eternity
My thoughts in conference form crowds
You’re beauty’s form inspires serenity

Triumphant in victory at the gate I call
For you to shout unto me with song
Looking to you top of the tower’s wall
From below, I stand erect in armor strong

Beautiful Girl, you make my slow mind
Wander from the confines of space
Through the ages of love stories I wind
Into your arms my mind’s dreams race

Wonderful Girl, you’re arms in my to hold
Your slender, inviting and beautiful hands
The rest of your soft skinned form into my fold
My body awaiting your arrival with love stands

Little Girl, to your mouth will I watch and listen
Not awaiting the joining of our lips in ecstasy
But longing for your crystal words to glisten
Drown me in your minds deepest fantasy

You are a light I cannot see
The darkness of the sea
Lost in endless depth of ocean
Yet moving in one motion

I don’t always understand
Your moves so carefully planned
Your love has yet to be proved
Yet in truth I’m deeply moved

An opera without words,
Music rings like wildebeest herds,
Thundering through earth’s heaven
My heart pauses at eleven eleven

Wishing upon a star out of sight
Beyond the ghastly moon white
Far from the sun’s rays of light
In the deepness of eternal night

My dream now given up to atonement
But now receiving only judgement
My sins poured out like leaves in fall
Heavens store house’s bounteous hall

Taking two steps back and one down
In the wallows of my despair I drown
Without a safety net to hold back
In my chest I feel a crack

Out flows the waters of the Nile
Not fresh cold and clear but red and vile
Poisoned the land infertile from the breath
Of God’s sacred servant of unnatural death

Taking from nature one last lungful of air
My soul out of my body does tear
One more moment free from despair
And one last silent slow prayer

I’m sorry…I’m sorry…I’m sorry…
Why did I build this wall
Building castles in the sky
Walk out the gate and fall
To love you so hard I try

I’m sorry…I’m sorry…I’m sorry…
The cavern tunnel inward comes
Caving my pure love’s dream
My thought a nightmare becomes
And in the darkness of slumber I scream

I’m sorry…I’m sorry…I’m sorry…
Please I loved you more than life
My honor and pride I gave
All this and I end with strife
Now you banish me with a wave

I’m sorry…

I’ve got hate flowing through my mind. Down from the eyes that gaze at the wedding. Down into the depths of my heart. Beating through my chest, my heart feels anger like an iron in the furnace. My eyes now close and look into the depth of the earth. Fire flowing up from the ground up mountains and flying into the air. Lava rolling down mountain paths of old crushing the old and new alike. Igniting the forests and knocking over the tallest cedars. My mind wanders through a scorched land.

Looking back now at the white dress and the tall man standing by smiling, my eyes turn to water. Flowing no longer in anger but in dismay. She is married now. The man has taken her. Running to his horse with her. And Liam has lost Isolde. Her face he cannot see. She runs, her hand in her lovers. But still Liam holds his hands in anger. Silent screams fly into the night sky like a dying animal. Thrashing like dolphin being torn by a pack of sharks. Water flies left and right from the silent witness.

Walking now he takes his place once again at the mountain. The sky is still blue. And the clouds are coming bringing rain. The harvest will come and the people will rejoice. But Liam cannot. Its not that Liam will not or doesn’t want joy and peace. Liam has been beaten into the hole that he lives in now. And like a hermit he cannot change.

Is the system evil? Why could he never take Isolde and run to a horse with her in his hand? But Liam didn’t find the answers to these questions. He merely asked them and fell deeper into depression that crashed in like a mountain’s walls. The creatures look and walk onward without any idea of what thoughts pulse like a heart beat through Liam. Still standing straight waiting for his replacement, Liam has eternity to think…

The woods cleared of bramble
Opened to the creatures walk
Through this sun stroked land I ramble
To nature’s children light I talk

Soft winged creatures, whistling
Symphonies beyond any man’s
My body no longer bristling
By song my heart melts in my hands

The feathers ignite into light
Beating through the air
Humming as they take flight
Into pure energy they flare

Setting sail on the mystical voyage
My senses numbed by the scene
Pure senses, no mortal could damage
All this like snow white clean