IT IS YOU

Wish I knew

How to give

like you.

The most unselfish

Being I’ve known.

Such a complete love

A myth to me.

You showed up

Perhaps a dream.


But then you held me.

You kissed my mouth.

And slept with me

And showed me soft.

You wanted me

And took me too.

I was in disbelief

I needed you.


Your love grew strong.

Didn’t fade away.

You didn’t leave,

I didn’t make you stay.

You chose to love me

And open your soul.

You accepted me,

As a whole.


Each day now, I feel you more.

In my heart and life.

Naked in your eyes,

Standing as an unprotected soul.

I learn to trust so naturally,

Which is something I don’t know.


Where have you led me,

My dear wife.

With your fingertips and voice.

That I would know desire and want,

And it is not a choice.

It is destiny,

It is love,

It is you.

--Diva

WISE

Some may say I've lost my mind

But little do they know

How simple and wise am I

I hid it in my soul.

--Diva
(One of my favorites)

DRAW ME IN

I saw the world end

in a dream

God how real

to hear the scream


Scream for me to save them

Scream for me to bend

In my weakness take them

Upon my back and wing


Fly them to the heavens

Far away from the pain

Where quiet and peace are reeking

And they no longer scream

At me.


Close to death we seem

Without appreciating the dream.

Life….we named it long ago.


A glimpse, a gasp, less than a moment, past.

Entwined in a thought surreal and true.

Once was flesh and broadened horizons

That have ends we never knew


Anchored ourselves to real and pain

Time and evil and rain

Exist.


Drew us in to live here for now

Foreigners on this land.
 
--Diva

DARE

I’ve watched an eagle

Dare a sienna sky

At the edge of steep cliffs

I’d stand, couldn’t fly.

-Diva (as published in "A Diva's Forte", Lulu Publishing)

SLOW FALL

It was a rain shower of frosted silhouettes.

Crisp autumn piling on the ground.

As the branches bled, deflowered

Were bare and silent by sundown.
 
--Diva