Leave them better off than you found them
Applies to kitchen counters and hearts

Oh, make me a better lover
Slow me down
Sift my speech for gold
Clean my heart
So I can sit naked with yours
Let love drive our thoughts
Let me lift you by the power of the rising tide of my life
The way you have lifted me
May my words be a song in your ear
May my actions speak of our love
Perfect me
You deserve nothing less

Sometimes I tell myself
I need to be more careful
I say what’s on my mind
I have a playful spirit
But some people
Are in the mood to die
One of these days I’m going to play tag and accidentally push one over the edge
Then I’ll really be sorry…

My rough edges
Smoothing down
Been tossed around
In the river of this life
No point in fighting the currents
The scenery will tell you everything
Just look around
Really look
You are cooking in a stew
And the other ingredients
Are right there with you
They’re reading the same recipe

Drifted into a side-cove
Sat there for a long time
Getting rocked by the waves
And doing nothing really about it
I couldn’t see out for the fog
Feeling sorry for myself
I finally took the oars
And found my way back out to sea

Poetry and science
Are not so different after all
Both taking something large
And exploring just a part
Looking for the beauty
The simplicity
And the elegance
Looking for the rhythms
Rhymes and reasons
Publishing

Today was honey in my mouth
Poured by the gifting hand of God

Sweet perfection revealed
In every infinite moment

Waves of action
So precisely timed
Crashing into my shores
And shattering stones of resistance
Into tiny grains of sand

You win
I surrender

I realize
How silly it is
To be insanely jealous
Of the people on whom the sun is shining
When the earth has moved me to its dark, quiet side, for a while
Or when a series of mostly impenetrable clouds keeps blocking the glow

So I throw off my clothes, close my eyes, and give a huge smile
Grateful
Relieved
Overjoyed
When you light my skin again

There you go again
Drinking your red bull
And giving me wings

The sands are strewn across the universe
In as many stars
I can only see a few hundred
From my front porch
But they make me gasp in the wonder
Of my own little consciousness
In this naked pink body
On this tiny planet

In a huge sea of worlds
How much other life is awakening
Upon the fuel of their spheres?
Trillions of fiery globes burning green
and blue and teeming with anything
that has a chance of survival

We are called only to glory in each other’s abilities
And bear a trembling witness to the awesome burgeoning of life all around us

All else is a human complication.