Lack of love within
Oxygen source depleted
Life’s flow disrupted from lack
How does one survive
Love’s the oxygen needed
Supports even vertebrates
Lest your heart, soul slumps
Love distributes nourishment
Love’s salutation needed
Choka
Twilight of sleep
Between awake and dreaming
Ebb of conscious thoughts
Complete peaceful silence
No time to ruminate
A touch will bring an awakening
Drawing fluid lust from within
Good morning my dear
I don’t do pink
You find me climbing
Hiking up my dress to run
Always rough housing
Be like other little girls
Not a lady, I am strong
Polite, plain spoken
Sugar doesn’t drip from mymouth
Opinions are held
Softness may not be outside
Armor set around my heart
Tortured souls
Flesh caricatures
Monsters sculpture for pleasure
Degrading one’s innocence
Why such gruesome deed?
For a dark souls amusement
How shall a victim retract?
Semblance of white lace
An imperfect existence
Illusion of normalcy
Success by degrees
Notice corruption not yours
Retrieve your worth heart and soul
Recharging (Choka)
Where’s the whole of you
Crumbs is what I am left with
Within my heart there is more
Slow down take the time
This emptiness will refill
Up righting what’s upside down
Recharging the flame
Embers of passion regained
Our two hearts will light the sky
The earth weeps
Desperate whisper
Urging forceful quality
Any are nonresponsive
Piercing to the heart
How can one turn away
Remedial gritty tears
Women and children
In the name of religion
Mutilated, beaten, marred
Silent congregants
Silence shows complicity
No woman, child left behind
Disregard Petro
Regard the weaker vessels
Liberate from the bully
Earth weeps each soul
The cries not heard nor answered
A tattoo on others souls
Reconciliation (Choka)
No regrets rewind
Let’s start from the beginning
Words become complicated
No one’s right all wrong
Blindsided by anger
Seeing past not future
Bridges are burnt down
In war bridges are rebuilt
Cost is split down the middle
We need conveyance
Rebuild with added structure
Boundaries for both parties
Integrity first
Forging a new bridge no gaps
Solutions come from the heart
Design Beatitude
Isolate the cerebral
Abundance of your heart flow
Anticipate good
Bridge now built on solid ground
Cross the threshold with promise
What’s Dear
My heart reaches out
Open to all to receive
As a child carries ballons
Childs grip tightly held
Fingers entwine the ribbons
As my heart entwines a friend
Seeing YOU
I saw you coming
A massive crowd between
My heart quickened as my pace
The distance lessens
We are noticed by others
It was as the sea parted
Some seem to wonder
Clear envy on other faces
Our reach has sensual rhythm
We know what we have
Not mere wanting but sheer bliss
Ours is one in a million
Homes Nest (Choka)
Tumultuous sky
Marks the changing of seasons
Warmth of air collide with cold
Warm colors arrive
The aroma of wet leaves
With apples and cinnamon
Fill the air and hearts
Hearth and home preparing nest
Harvest is canned and frozen
Wafting aromas
Children in school quiet home
Preparing for winters siege
Wood burning dispels
Chill as family arrives
Bringing their warmth of chatter
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