JUBILANT FATHER
His face is like a sun, warms the moon beside him.
She´s grown full; tonight begins the waning.
The tide pulls through her very bones,
her form aches as each wave crests.
The earth pulse, heavy, blood warm within her
Beats new chords, old sun god chants.
"You are the first mother and the last,
all spring flesh has traveled through you."
Aztec plumed and gold beaded,
your priest kneels at the holy alter,
gathers each salt pearl shed, nectar for his sacrament.
You are the temple,
we pilgrims swept through the gates,
bent figures know the scent and petals of your presence,
spread our arms to harvest blossoms,
and your priest, sun struck, kneels beside you.
I want to be a lost poem in a stranger's coat pocket that conveys the importance of you, To assure you of my desire, To assure you of my dreams. I want all the possibilities of you in writing. I want to give you your reflection. I want your eyes on me. I want everything before you to follow us And leave a trail behind us. I want never to say good-bye to you, Even on the street corner nor phone. I want. . . . . . I want so much I'm breathless. I want to bring my power in a poem to burn a hole in your pocket, So then I could sew it. I want you to be distant and feel you close. I want endless days when its day, And nighttime never to end when its night. I want all seasons in one day. I want the sun to set before us, And come up in front of us. I want to think you're thoughts, Because they're mine. I want only what's urging you. I want to get in the way of your barriers. I want you to be tender like you do already. I want to say we meet for a reason, And I want that reason to be bigger then us, And I want it to take over us, I want to forget, I want to remember us. I want your smile always, And your grimace's too. I want your scare on my lips, I want your disappointments in my heart, I want your strengths in my soul, And your soul in my eyes. I want to believe everything you say, And I do. I want you to tell me what's best, When I don't know. When your lost, I want to find you and drag you from the darkness.
