Beach of Sunset

I know you are there behind a yoga stretch or a protest placard

I know you are there behind pupils extended into a digital book

Scanning into the shoulders of human time stacking up lessons

Not being ignored

A car parking, brake applied, dress extended and shoes open-toed

And I am gazing across this shore of computer screens and arrested perception

I know you are there breathing a collection of dreams of all the devils chasing me

Trying to murder a man who is long gone dead

I said you were real in a whisper; blow away the maniacal laughter into dust

Twisting across the Texas bowl to Pennsylvania rust

The lessons subscribed are the American land flowing across our feat

I can see you dancing and encouraging me to compete

With the silence of sidewalks to speak up in that moment

After the storm passing and before the flotsam collects to blockade doorways

Like men and women of an insubordinate nature caulking for air seepage

That a set of lungs could hold out no longer and had to inhale something

Specks of regret and participles of a drunkard’s humanity barking at the moon

For the sanity of love’s salvation in a morsel cast from the passing station

As the trains come and go full of souls dying with each pace, closer to the end

Of a stomach aching from all it has consumed in a lifetime of nothing more

Broken and pledged to imbibe the nothingness to cancel out the regrets

That all these facades were never yours and I knew it like a seabird never finding shore

Plummeting to ocean, wings fatigued, exhausted in the motion of carrying on energy to wake

I once saw the cave; I saw you roll the stone; I saw the light behind your silhouette

Welcoming home, like two eyes and time spiraling in

I had our forever and none of it pinned

Under another moment of searching, asking, flying or sailing

The haze was clearing and the pose was made like a lotus flower with footprints in the sand

Two lovers at the beach of sunset peering at all the journey of Odyssey’s beginning