There is a place within me
where naked truths await
expression.
There is a spindle crying
to be unwound.
There is a song surpassing
all songs, yet unsung.
There is a vapored mist
where silence is enthroned
but for the echoes of
familiar celtic chants.
My poetry cannot mend
my life, but I can gather
the words unto myself,
as one would cling
to a newborn baby
at childbirth.
The naked truths within
me rule my pen.
It is the penalty for
my passion.
The years have
sobered me.
I rise from the sleep
without fear.
I am reborn, and
my soul is restless.
I want to write
truthfully of
loves and passions
I have known,
which now seem like
the most natural things
in my world.
Like a hymnody
after the sunset,
I will bare my soul
with a psalm of words;
lying naked in the wind,
I will wait for the warm foam
to embrace me, for
the tide to go out.