Submitted by joshua mertz on February 28, 2015
Would you love again
Knowing what you know now?
That love will run away
Bored with the sameness
And comfort of a thousand nights
Run to hide its beautiful face
In the trees and sidewalks
And the lost light of stars
Because the joy is too strong
Or too weak or made thin
With time and the mundane
Love lives on the drug of newness
Always seeking, always singing
Always wanting the heady rush
It is not until
Love mellows and grows full
Of ashes
That it gains a new name
Which cannot be spoken
Submitted by joshua mertz on February 28, 2015
Everyone is wounded
Even as a child
Summer bundling into autumn
Then winter
The beauty of all things
Stolen by the cruelty of time
The drug of wanting
An insatiable dance of desire
And the inevitable disappointment
Of a finite world that does not pay
Respect to the conceit of
Infinite perfection
All tastes, all journeys, all loves
Falling short of the dream
That wounds us all
From the moment of waking
Submitted by joshua mertz on May 23, 2014
Dear Earth
I return to you this sweetest of souls
Whose life was as nectar upon my tongue
A small thing, lovely
Lively and full of light
She comes home, Earth
A shell that held this wonderful life
As I have held her in the mystery of night
And curled with her into the answer of sleep
She sleeps now with you
On the long journey home
Curling into your answer of clay and root
Dreaming deeper dreams
In the night of long darkness
And the day of new life
Submitted by joshua mertz on March 16, 2014
We want the world of dreams
To be always in love
But not the world that
Muddies the feet
And clouds the eye
With desire
(Even of dreams)
A world salted with
Brief glimpses of glory
Peppered with infinite perception
Dance of light and photons and
Atoms
And infinitely down
And infinitely up
Which we paint with dreams
Thinking it is real
Submitted by joshua mertz on March 14, 2014
When I wish upon a star
It doesn't get me very far
Instead of feeding sand to fishes
Perhaps I'll wish for different wishes
Instead of warmth, respect and love
I think I'll wish for push and shove
I'll wish for cruelty and warfare
Instead of dreamy, hippie starfare
Ask that star for idiot drivers
For tailgaters and soulless strivers
For movies fraught with huge explosions
For dying frogs and soil erosions
For inequality and greed
And piss on all of those in need
Then I'll get my wishes granted
Instead of all that love I've ranted
I'll drown my angels at the bar
And wish upon that goddam star
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