Detachment

Just a flicker

Then I must hide away.

Seconds of joy

Just fleeting moments

Then I'll hide behind

That Vulcan mask 

Of emotional neutrality that

Everyone expects.

Don't be too happy. 

Don't be too sad.

Others can't handle the emotions. 

One True Hero

There was a maiden fair

With flaming locks of hair 

Everyone knew 

Her heart was true

The Lass with Flaming Hair

The Quest she chose was rare 

At times it wasn't fair

But she did fight 

With all her might

The Lass with Flaming Hair

She drove her snow white mare

Straight to the dragon's lair

And battle-worn

A Hero's Born!

The Lass with Flaming Hair

Radiant

And once I fall to my knees 

Ready to accept fate's choice

The storm cloud shifts  

And the sun reassures

That time goes forward. 

The kiss of light on dampened skin

Warms and calms. 

The heat spreads from flesh to soul. 

And your smile goes on forever. 

heartStrings

Horsehair on catgut 

Isn't it the most lovely

Sound of irony?

Without

Colors dull

Everything softens

The loss of feeling

Craving an injection

A shot

Just a sip

Of the thing that makes me

Part of you. 

musicBox

Center stage

Single Fresnel pointed down 

And I'm supposed to step into it

On display

Be what they want 

No one will have you if you don't 

Smile

Clap

Laugh

Dance

Put on a show to the dark that surrounds

Maybe you'll be lucky 

Maybe someone will choose you 

Then

Out goes your light

Shuffle back to your cage you ugly thing

And take as your proof that

Lonlieness is your beauty

Beam

I'm not sure what

Makes you stand out.

I only know 

Something happens,

Something magical, when 

Your soul turns my way. 

Over the moon.

Under your spell. 

Package

A gift wrapped in skin

Presented

Eyes down cast

Perfectly still 

Barely breathing

Praying for acceptance 

She holds out the leash 

You look and consider

Thirty seconds of silence

That seem eternity

Then finally approval

And air fills my lungs again 

Insides

Sometimes your unexpected kindness

Obliterates me and turns the 

Usual drab into a glorious 

Luster. 

Sunlight breaks the carapace of 

Menacing darkness trapped

Inside a tortured and 

Lost soul.  

Enlighten my heart and

Seal my wounds, Maestro.