i wish your ears
would hear what i hear
the explosions, the murder
followed by a billion births
screaming off a cliff
diving into every ocean at once
and planting my lips on the moon
i wish your ears could hear the ecstacy
contact with eyes of every color
higher with every breath i take
i wish your ears could hear
every voice on earth at once
i wish your eyes could see
how far away i've been taken
come be with me

evening prayer

you remind me of a day long gone
a song i can't remember how to sing
i'll write a memoir across fragile bone
reminiscing the intensity of youth
you laugh, little boy
you laugh yourself to sleep
when you dream you only scream
you lack the love you need
you crawled home with love poems in tow
they set fire to the memory you held dear
tonight when you dream, they paint the nightmare
plant the morning's seed, the horror disappears