Openworks

Our lives a web of transparencies
Openworks of configurations
Flesh blanketing a skeletal frame
Beyond cells of propagated limbs
Extended courtesies, obliging
Kindly words of forgiveness spoken
The wounds of life’s bitter offerings
Fester without bandage nor dressings
Eyes castigate in hasteful judgment
Lo reasonable considerations
Would now behest our swift attention
Save unintentional consequence
May substance flow in unrestricted
Chaste embellishment for adorning
….this mantel of our integrity

Neurons in a cacophanic transfer
Teeming familiarity to
Infinite networks interwoven
Electrified by outward senses
A mind in all its complexities
Disseminating alterations
Divergent streams of great distortions
Fabricated to unkindly end
The human condition challenges
By virtue of our imperfections
Blood coursing through constricted veins
Life force of variant energies
Whilst heart and soul in deliverance
Congeal in functional accordance
….the very essence of our being

copyright Don MacIver 2009;  All Rights Reserved

Save For Tomorrow

Dawn draws my rise with intensity
As Morning Glory responds to sun
My gaze to you ever so fondly
In quietness you rest by my side

Silent, your dreams whisper tenderly
Of sweet moments that are yet to come
Let this day be but ours forever
And the nights echo our blessed heartsong

For all that has long come between us
Shall come to pass as night fades away
Hold me ever so close sweet angel
In your arms I will always remain

Reach out with conviction of your faith
That most sacred place within your soul
Where inner strength defines your being
And bathes your heart in content once more

In your arms I stand resurrected
By embracing whatever will be
Take my hand and save for tomorrow
All that could have been ours for today

Yesterday is but a memory
Filled with such heartache and frustration
As tumbleweed drifting aimlessly
Precious moments we lost to the wind

Souls for a lifetime joined together
Taking flight as though a shooting star
For all that I am and all you’ll be
Loving each other forever more

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Seasons For Change

Your eyes glaze over in idle curiosity

A banal silence washing over your voice

In this moment pain and anguish reigns

A heart that slows after timeless beats

Thoughts that wander impatiently

Between now and nowhere searching

Tears that burn as ducts run dry

Diffusing anger of what could have been

Little ones lost that never grew up

What I’d give to make it go away

The tidal ambivalence, nothing gained

Does a day fall so heavily into the night

Without sunshine nor stars would you see

In your autumn your hand now unsteady

Your walk without purpose and stilted

Jaded by losses with time you forsake

Accepting what life so unkindly unfolds

Unlikely reason, untimely reprieve

Rest well upon nightfall, divine is your grace

For the change of seasons fills your dreams

Embrace with dignity whatever must be

The night is still yours, the dawn of days

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Upon Layered Souls

As tiered as in lyrical verse
Thoughts linger in layered repose
Recessed in memory shaped as
A Bonsai painstakingly pruned
Intrinsic limbs of solitude
Hang lazily in altered state
Buoyant transitions of stratum
Void of cognitive dissonance
Photographed images shaping
A lifetime of moments we shared
Eclipsed by a passing notion
Draped in a moonlight serenade
We gaze with longing wonderment
Through the eyes of a layered soul
Our destiny shadowed mirrors
Prophesy of things before us
Stepping stones pattern our journey
A heartsong forever embraced

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