HYPNOSIS

How do I know if you are there?

Wisps of confusion in the air,

Moist and fragrant, smoothly tow

Do I dare to find out?

Cast away on turbulent pulses

Torrents thrusting to and fro,

Anchors haulin’ does no good,

Do I dare strike forth?

Into the wild, skimming the blue

reckless, gasping happiness true

shimmers wistful, camouflaged..

Resonant hums strange and calm

lull and rock, a sultry psalm

beckon, come join the entourage..

‘Tis a parade of fools

The ones who did choose

to merry-make and sing for the soul

Gyrate and profess

Love does make life a mess

But its trance is a hypnosis that makes me whole.

GOODBYE

Remember me as a smile

Not as an ache in your heart

Remember me as a blessing

Not a curse that cut deep and hard

Look back on me

always as a soft dream that lit your blues

Know me in your thoughts

as a wistful wish that came true.

I dare not stay longer

for the mirage will scatter

Though I yearn to be stronger

my courage does shatter

And so I leave you

before fragile desires swirl into mist

Goodbye, winsome one …

so that our friendship stays as it is.

My self I see

You want me to give up my sun, my moon

my rhinestones that make me swoon…

You want me to turn pathetic and wry

while I wish to stay a butterfly.

I fled and fought the twinge, the tear

I cried wracking sobs, cringed from the fear

but no more cobwebs, no closets, that’s it

no more promises that sit rancid.

Careless, composed, calm , contained

A film of white o’er the deranged.

Is it a must, a doctrine, a rule, dear heart

that you must please all from self apart?

What I do see, I must believe

What I do seek, I will achieve,

There may be walls or mountains tall

With hope riding high, I will climb them all.