You Must Be Beautiful

You must be beautiful

Lying on the bed

Staring in silence

Wondering

Trying to see what is right

Through your eyes

Though the attempt

Is costing them their light

You must be beautiful

You must make it through the night

You must plan a future

And stifle cries

Being scared

Contemplating love

Holding back feelings

Attempting a stand

Trying to trust

Oh, how you must

You must be beautiful

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Blue-eyed Goddess

Blue-eyed Goddess

Soul enchanting

Brilliant sky

There I see you

Floating in light

To my eyes

On a wink

And make them shine with life

Or I’ll die without you

Blind

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The Corner of a Room

How was I to know

I would find my whole world

In the corner of a room

By a closet, open door?

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Mornings

In the morning

I shift

And sift through my thoughts

Adrift from the current

Of sleep and dead time.

On wing

The birds sound

And sing to my soul

To bring spirit to blend

The nuanced call

That blends strife with life.

The sun casts a light;

The sight,

Bright through itself

Right at that moment

Of knowing how what to be.

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With a Look

With a look

You stir my unconscious

With a whisper

To a sound

From the depths deepening

To the world round and under

To the realm that births

The thunder you hear

To the clouds above that clothe you