Dancing with you last night
My feet moved magically under legs

Shadows came right up out of the floor
Lifting us higher and higher
To help us touch the sky

Developing sensual physical communication
Playing with subtle forces of divine light
There was unification of hearts and minds
Spinning and whirling in a sea of graceful fluidity

The night melted away
Timelessly transformed
Romance dance

I can still feel you in my arms
Folded deep beside me
Protected by my soul

Fingertips touching lightly
Looking into your eyes
When you smile that gentle knowing smile
I dissolve into the ocean of you

It just happened
Two people who gave up on giving
Tired of trying
Tried of lying

Feeling warm tender glow within
Radiating outward
Comfortable in our skin
Telling the truth
Aspects of ourselves connected
Aligning and dancing into joys night

Wholeness and wholeness
Equaling divine loving energy

Complete in the moment
Not asking for permission
Not making demands
Nothing to get
An outpouring of love
Refreshing and alive

Letting go into the tender place that isn’t felt enough
Stillness and calm wash over me

I see the ache in my heart gently drift away
Dissolving with you in my arms

It is the place of dreams
Where the light gives way to night
Treading softly on moist ground
All sounds are amplified
The imagination works wondrous wild
Manifesting visions of all kinds
Creating illusions of fear to nip at the heels
Animals, men and spirits all clamor to grab hold
But none grasp tighter than the mind

Dante Alighieri stepped into the woods
Not knowing what he would find

In the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray
Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell,
It were no easy task, how savage wild
That forest, how robust and rough its growth,
Which to remember only, my dismay
Renews, in bitterness not far from death.

He was met by Virgil and was guided through hell, purgatory and paradise.
They stopped along the way to witness all kinds of suffering and joy.

This is the journey we take every time we risk the unknowable
It takes us through the shadows of the mind
To the salvation of our own presence
The willingness to go through that which we fear most
Will bring us closer to the source of our own truth
The truth of who we are

Tonight I stepped in the woods
Not knowing
Allowing my feet to carry me
Letting my mind wander along the path
Until I could barely see
Relaxing into the unknowable, un-seeable
Trusting my senses, allowing my mind to run wild
Observing fear and relinquishing its grip on my heart
Breathing and walking through what is

The best parts of last night
Were the ones with no words,
Deep presence moments
A kind knowing gaze
Emotional synergy
Physical resonance
Sweet understanding
Sensual articulation
Elegant form and formlessness

You drove your way to my heart
I left the keys on the counter
You took the top down and went for a ride

Go ahead
Tell yourself that it’s time to go
Push away that which you love
Find a clever reason not to feel the intensity
Discover the truth of losing yourself in the other
Listen to voice that is drowning in the fear of your fear
Feel how scary it is the abandon your insecurities
In favor of love

Abandonment is a visitor that doesn’t come uninvited
What good does it do to tell yourself that this doesn’t matter?
It really doesn’t, does it?
In the end everything fades away
The evening sun comes home
Bowing beyond the horizon

Try to imagine yourself standing in the rain as an old person
Standing there with your lover beside you
Holding the umbrella overhead
Are we together as we?
Or are you alone and cold with big heavy bags?

Feel the beauty in this moment
This summer of love
Innocence and experience
Learning and touching
Sharing and feeling
It was supposed to be a light fling
But it surprised both of us

Now we have a lot of explaining to do
Shifting deeper into the present
Feeling the warm love of this embrace
Intertwined in ecstasy
Exploring each other with sensualist secrets
We are each others lover

No words to tell
No voice to speak
Sighs and breaths of passion
Tears of joy
Shaky legs tell all
Trembling with the after murmurs

When the time comes
We will say good bye
Pretending that we are making no promises
Precious kisses seem to last forever
But soon they will be gone
Embracing the impermanence of life
This doesn’t mean that we won’t see each other again
But let’s not drive each other crazy from afar

Remaining open to change
Not living ahead
We can enjoy the moment
The moment that is now

Frustrated in the moment knowing the hurt will come soon
I raise the stakes giving myself over fully
Choosing to surrender to this special moment
To you special woman
The soul of which I have touched
Whose soul has touched me

I thank you for your gift
The gift of you
You are beautiful
I love you
Thank you

Drifting into mutual solitude
Dancing the night away
Go ahead and drink the way you forgot how to
Steal the freedom that you gave away
but never left

Holding your head on my chest
Your arm resting gently in mine

The smell of your hair relaxes my soul
Soothing fall to sleep

Taking this trip together
To the world of dreams

On our slumber sleigh bed
Flying above the clouds

White billowy cotton candy
Looks good enough to eat

On this night I ride with you

I see you in the light of the stars
A remarkable constellation
Together we are intwined in the fragrant night
Sighing softly
Caressing lightly
Backs arching
Nakedness lit by the glow of the moon

I am an artist of love!
My hands smooth the subtle contours of your elegance
Carving your figure with my hands as a sculptor carves stone
Chiseling the form of your mythic body from translucent alabaster

I am hungry with lust
My appetite remains unsatisfied
Unquenchable
Except by your presence in mine
Lovers locked in passionate embrace
Straining ever further
For just one more sweet kiss!
And then a hundred more that serve as the appetizer
Before the banquet feast of more kisses
Drinking from the wine goblet more kisses
Finishing off with a dessert of yet sweeter kisses

Shifting, drawing away, attempting to preserve this moment
It comes in and goes out with each gentle fragile breath
Each sigh, more relaxing then the last
Falling deeper in your eyes
Memories linger and the smell of you remains in my senses
Through my body and in my dreams

Your lips are an irresistible waterfall of sensuality!
Just one more sweet kiss my love!
Tearing away I will finally drift back into the night
Feeling the soft warm glow of you in my soul

Silent watching eye, Cleopatra’s magic portal
A round cavern filled with a thousand dark stars.
Unending black night hangs lazily over the mantle.
I recognized it from the past, exact flashes fired unnervingly.
Lives, bodies, blood, death, human misery, filling volumes, filing tombs.
Candles lit for the shrine of the unfinished, unburied and never always already dead.
I knew that the soft feathers were a distraction, the topical anesthetic to prepare
For the bigger injection, the lethal needle, the suction tube, the vacuum of doom.
The black bird stretches its wings and envelops its prey.
What a feat! What a feast! A feathered celebration of the abyss!
The flesh is fresh and the appetite still wet from the one before.
There is no extinguisher for this icy passion, this dark flame of negative intensity.
It will remove what isn’t even there and leaves nothing that wasn’t.
So clean so tidy is this rare pool of no reflection,
It is so dark the shadows cannot even see themselves.
Imagine what would happen if one walked in who didn’t know, who couldn’t see it?
God bless him and may the lord have mercy on his soul.