Showing posts with label Assent/Ascent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Assent/Ascent. Show all posts

20 September, 2009

2 New Poems: Dissent/Descent, Assent /Ascent

Dissent /Descent

I have always loved you.
Every kiss is an echo of years.

There is a point
in a man’s life

where he understands
more than he knows.

You occupy the space beyond
and call to me, laughing, arms

open wide and welcoming
while I wander and continue

to ponder the nicities of love.
Though it is not something

we fall into willy-nilly
(mostly it finds us whether

we want it to or not) still
I live for those moments

when I can return to you again.

Assent /Ascent

Every kiss is an echo of years.
Lips touch
and in those quiet seconds
we return to the place
we were born.

The days begin with discontent;
rumblings and rememberance of dreams
imprinted on our irises
and reverbing in our ear canals
like bad show tunes

or a hangover. In these moments
we are our purests selves – animals
awake under one more apatheic sun
one more eye
of one more decayed god

we conjured to explain
away our primordial fears
from the night before. Falling
out of bed and down the
narrow stairs, into the daylight

where all our inequties show
and are burned away in the struggle.
What we’re left with
is pure and real and awakened—
but only in that single moment.