Velveteen rabbits

Time to admit it, 

Time to come clean. 

That look on your face, 

Was meant for me. 

You don't exist,

And neither do I. 

This moment, an ignition,

A reason to try. 

If I clamor here,

And you do your version,

We might be real.

 We might get motion.

Velveteen rabbits,

You and I.

Come, love.

Come love.

We're real in the tension,

Fake in the day.

We're non-existent,

If we don't engage.

Ode to Tilling: Part Two

I don't take the flowers, 

But I watch them bloom. 

I don't uproot the trees by their stumps, 

But I pick their fruit.

From seed, to plant, to blossoming tree,

This strange earth, some reflection of me.

Ode to Tilling: Part One

I'm only here to see my flowers. 

I'm only here for the trees. 

I planted them, gave water,

Watched them grow from seed.

This land was never mine,

Though I looked after it regularly.

This land was not my own,

Though I worked it lovingly.

To take the flowers would now be stealing.

To uproot trees is theft.

Yet I'm standing empty handed,

Forlorn, speechless, inept.

Fuel and Flame

This isn't the first time,

My audacity has humiliated me. 

It's okay, 

It's fine. 

This isn't the first time,

That my hope

Has shamed me.

Audacity is fuel and flame.

Echo

You do it so masterfully,

At first I don't notice. 

I fall in love with myself

When I talk to you. 

In two years

I know three things about you. 

Your flat stomach,

A sounding board. 

I saw my estranged self

In your eyes

And I fell in love 
With her.

You moved so slowly. 

And when our conversation 

Sounded like an echo

I pushed, because I was hungry. 

I've never seen a chest like that. 

And I've never imagined

The heart so much. 

I fell in love with myself

When I spoke to you

Up

Zero gravity tears fall up.

A reason to cry

Take the weight off,

Not easy, but functional.

One, two, seventy-seven.

Up they go, and I watch them.

Tears fall up, 

Because I lift them.

Love is in the sky:

A good place for tears. 

Giving them their weight,

Can flood my earth. 

So I lift them.

So, I take the weight off. 

So, I cry:

Up.

Pondering Love

Love, come to me.

Oh, I will live in You!

Vehemence for Love,

Every breath for You.

Now, we see through a glass.

Every breath for You. 

Vehemence for Love,

Even when I see nothing

Reminded am I:

Every breath for You.

Nothing can separate me.

Dwelling here,

Satisfies.