Love Mirage

Love shimmers like a mirage

For a moment I see, I can almost touch it

The faster I move toward it

The faster it moves away

Always, just there, oh so close, just out of reach

 

What trickery is this?

 I step too far.  Gone like mist on a hot August day

Am I destined to be loveless,

Lifeless.

What pieces of karma must I

Reseal to fix this hole in me?

What desert must I cross to find my truth

I lay here in the sand, the dirth of my aloneness

“Pity,” say passersby as I gasp my youthbreath-

“She was so young.”

I choke on a dry laugh.

 

Can’t… breathe… must…find… water…

This compass is broken

Why is my North South?

  I lay on the grass in the center of the circle in the center of the cemetery far away from the city, only minutes down the roadwatching the Meteors fly past Earth. I think to myselfWhat wine goes best with a Mexican dish. I step up to him in all his hot Spanish loveliness and say: This is how it’s gonna go down.Me and you. Here and now. Don’t think just do.  Kiss me now, ask questions later. I wake up. Stupid Alarm Clock.   

Garnet Windrider

August 2007

 

Dale

Dale

I saw your tight lipped smile,

lips quenched by the smooth liquor

the bottle burning in your hand.

Eyes gleaming bright,

 glazed, penetrating

looking beyond our facades for a deeper meaning

seeing very little through the bottom of the glass.

Your future is dim,  and bleak,

like a desert, windswept, everchanging,

 always the same with or without.

You reach for hands of Death,

I reckon I will save you

from yourself.

My soul will live on you say

this body is dust.

Seeking  some hollow peace

waiting for the world to change.

I say  You can’t stop it, only yourself.

We are the same with  or without.

You smirk

as you drink your poisonous firewater.

I have  pleaded enough 

and managed to save you, tonight. 

The sunlight grows out of the darkness.

the bottle is empty.

The World has not changed.

We are the Same with or without.

Garnet Windrider

June 2007

My Sophomore Debut-Randomness

I’ve reached a certain age where I think I would like to reinvent myself. I’ve heard that’s the In thing to do when you turn the Big 4-0! So I would like to reinvent myself into a slender more youthful model of myself! I am learning more and more every day, that I am NOT 30- something anymore and am beginning to FEEL it too! Alas. I think I will go remodel a leftover Chocolate Easter Bunny into an earless model of itself! Why? Why is it always the ears first?

And what does it take to be a flavor maker at a Gum factory? I bought some gum the other day because I just HAD to find ou EXACTLY how this “Exotic New Flavor” tasted. Well, let me just tell you, gum that HAS the flavors that are in a cocktail  you might find in a Cabana on the Playa del Carmen or a resort in the Caribean, does NOT TASTE LIKE THAT DRINK after two minutes. Now I am not trying to dissuade anyone from this gum, cause it was okay for a little while but it seemed the longer I chewed the flavor just sort of metered out. So it not long lasting but most definitely INTERESTING. This particular brand had other Exotic New Flavors that, for the pure curiosity of it, I will buy. I  liked to share  with my friends. I would offer them a piece of this gum saying; Try this gum, its really different! Everyone agreed and assured me that I did not need to share it anymore. Ever.

Garnet Windrider

May 3, 2007

May Day Song

Sing the Songs of May Day

May the Day be Bright

May the Day be Joyful

Sing in Your Heart the Songs of May

Of Earth and Sky

Of Your Love’s Desire

As You Dance ’round the Beltane Fire!

May the Day be Healthy

May the Day be Lovely

Dance with Beauty and Glee

For May Day is but Once a Year

So Dance, Maiden, Dance Happily!

garnet windrider (c) May 1, 2007