Tuesday, March 23, 2010

innocent


Young love
Originally uploaded by grahamfkerr

innocent love
the scent still lingers
but the cake's been eaten up.
it'll come back to haunt you
as crap

and you'll wonder
at the transformation.

innocent love.
now how did that recipe go?
it'll never quite be the same
but maybe
someday
i'll mess it up
and it'll somehow come out
even better than before
otherwise
my mouth will grow numb
to the imitation
of what was once
thrilling

and we try so hard
to recreate that look in our eyes
but
if you look closely
you can see
the effort,
the difficulty with which that imitation
of the look of love comes.

and the point of that look is that
it is free and easy and painless and innocent.
so where does it come from
when that innocence is gone?

Saturday, March 13, 2010

i got a new journal...


I'll Give You All I Can...
Originally uploaded by Brandon Christopher Warren

and here's what i've been writing:
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missing a face
i've hardly seen
let's listen to coltrane
play
the blues...
after 5 minutes
i could let you in
to my mind
my eyes
my mouth
my heart.
for what?
the feeling of love?
could it be worth pursuing?
any option?
stupid?smart?
close your eyes, close your eyes
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admiration.
so close.
but there's nothing to be had
for fear
of breakage
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a first glance tells you you need to meet him
a first word says you ought to be friends
and as soon as his hand seems to drift toward you
you want to be all it ever has.
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on paper life is dead.
your eyes are where the life is
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he only knows the joy,
none of the pain just yet,
so he is unafraid of what's to come
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where did my peace go?
you seem to have ripped it to shreds,
but i'm hoping that's so you can fix it.