Living without you On a love restricted diet Starving in the shadows Turning I saw your face on the wa…

Like winter trees that dance with the wind bare its leaves

If the sands of time that I have spent in tears were poured on me I would be crushed in a single moment.

Religion makes devils of us all. Pain puts things into perspective. “In the beginning...” we asked our… “Who we are, where we are and why… and we invented gods.

You smell of incense and fire. I breathe you in. Consumed – I burn in your presenc… I have found ecstasy In the darkness

This is my first poem to you. They’ll be many more as long as there are seasons to write them in.

Come with me and I will paddle us across the south side of heaven. I’ll spread out a handful of stars

The rain is like an old love song. It’s been with me many times before, to call me to sleep

Children swing north to south on grey rusted chains - red to them. Seasons move,

We slept within the same sphere captured happily under morning’s dew. As children

Riding to the water’s edge that da… Her and I on horses she’d ridden many times before.

I have not seen of gods only men lying on their backs in the dust and children

I left today or did I? I kept telling myself that I was going home so I could be alone

Sitting on silent drift the ocean beside me. Wrestling waters paint the shore as the brush

I wish you were like the shells I’ve collected through the years. I know they can’t wash away anymore