in the full moonlight

In the full moonlight there will be shadows
Kissing under the shadow of umbrella trees
Nights will be twinkling, smelling of stars
Mountains will sway like areca nut palms
Roads will whistle to the tired tap of toes
Sparrows will colour the sky with songs
Rainbows will bounce from leaf to bough
Cotton clouds will dance with cotton feet
Rivers will blush over oblong cobblestones
Coursing with gaiety like the giggle of love

Now that the minutes are beyond counting

Now that the minutes are beyond counting
The tears undone, not a requiem chasing
The white of the shroud beginning fraying
The grooves of the epitaph furiously filling
Reducing lives, meanings to unread scrawl
Now in that solace of lonely unbecoming
Unchained free from the grief of forgetting
Now in that oblivion and at last knowing
What began empty, was empty, is empty
now. That is one truth and that is all

We have become painless time
Journeying down the seasons
Warmed by summer’s yellow
Enveloped by easy night
Riffled by languid winds
Touched by the sprinkle of rain
Our winters come together
On this one winter day

We are beginnings fated to middles
Our stories written in riddles
We are painless time
We were born with evenings
To disappear with twilight’s last
We are silent, we are still
And clocks in anguish run past

to know unknow. to unsay say. to unlook look.
to giggle. chuckle. dote. and play.
to untouch touch. to unfeel feel.
to puzzle. scoff. dismiss. and abruptly know.
and flail. bewail. pine. and yearn.
to enclose. to stay. to run. to go. far. away.
and succeed. prevail. extinguish. and fail.