Letting go!

Letting go

Cut the cord

Cut the cord that binds me to you

My heart beats for you

Muscles contract, muscles relax

Impulses shoot along their neural pathways

All for you.

To see you, to smell you,

to touch your skin

causes an Implosion within my fragile skull

My obsessive need for you

A black hole

Distorting space and time

With my hunger and need

Cut the cord, cut the cord

I am a vortex

An empty space never to be filled

By tepid affection

and half-hearted regard

Where is the fire?

Where is the searing heat of passion?

It is time to let you go

Time to cut the cord the binds me to you

But not you to me

Extinguish my obsession

Quench my red hot madness

Oh but the fear. The uncertainty!

Will my heart continue to beat

if it no longer beats for you?

The Buddhist

The Buddhist

Clouds sail by

Ships of cotton wool in an inverted sky

Reflecting sheep in a lake of glass

A dream of clarity

Where a leaf is more real and pure than a man

Birdsong an intricate composition

That makes Mozart clutch his arms with pique

He can’t compete

With nature in her true and savage form

The Buddhist sits

In enlightened shadows

Seeking nirvana in the salty breeze

A half smile plays on tender lips

Gazing into a frozen sky

But not quite safe within the swirling void

Of a calm and empty mind

Soon though, perhaps soon

Meanwhile, a child picks a flower

A swaying yellow bloom

The first to escape from winters clutches

And laughs with joy and pleasure

Skipping up a verdant hill

Homewards for fresh baked bread and jam

And malted milk

With the undiluted ecstasy

of a loving mind

Happy New Year

Best Wishes for 2008

Lots of love from Carol