Water soothing thoughts of chill
Skin without cover taking in the moment
Overwhelmed by the perfection
Touched only by each other
Sensation beyond comprehension
This place is the world for now
Time to let go
Let it take us away
Passion's script evolving before us
Willing captives in its grip
Where is the line between us?
It is melting away
Passion does not divide us
It makes us one
Transported to the brink
Past lavish wooded banks
Where water meets air
And is released to the wind
How brief the solitude
Where once there was no break
Destined to rejoin the flow
Within a tumultuous mist
Bold fragile beauty
Ancient natural danger
Surviving through time
But destroyed by fear
A sparkle from the right
Edge of my vision
My gaze darts to it
It is steady, moving
The sharp light cuts the night
Brighter than any star or planet
Tracking, no cruising, the sky!
I cannot see them
The people
But they are there
Inside that point of light
Looking down at a globe
That thought alone is vast
And the speed, intense
The glimmer falters
They pass into shadow
A sunset for them
For me, the steady night
They are gone to me
The connection is lost
Deja vu, but no
For this one is dimmer
Another ship
In hot pursuit
It looks different
Even from here
I can almost feel them up there
The quick dip
In one of the Colorado's
Tributaries seemed like
Token refreshment
This small branch of the
Great river
Having carved its own
Awesome canyon within
You see
There is a vital difference
Between climbing
Into a canyon and
Climbing a mountain
They are mirror images of each other
You always know the
Climb back up
Will be harder
That is an ominous thought
But we made it
Switchback after switchback
We saw rim within rim
Always thinking
Or maybe hoping
That the rim we could see was the top
But we really knew
Deep down
That it wasn't
It couldn't be
Dusk was approaching
As we gazed upon
The last rim
Bats flew overhead
We both knew we could make it but
Feared we may not be able to muster up
That last bit of strength
To go just one more switchback
Reaching he top seemed
Almost anticlimactic
The experience was one of
Loss of perspective
Being in the canyon is a little like
Being a rat in a maze
You lose the whole picture
But you do feel a part of it
It seems more real
Full of life
You glow from inside
Radiant beyond compare
Enveloping me with your warmth
Modestly natural
Your herbal hair brushes me
With scent of earthy spice
Numbing me with deep serenity
Unimaginably sensual
You ignite my passion
Like a rising storm
Absorbing my fire with yours
Mysteriously woeful
I want to delve deeper
Inside what you are
Drawing your realness closer
Painfully relaxed
I lie on the edge of a blade
In willful anguish
Because you are there too
Quietly tormented
You drop your eyes away
So dark and deep
Protecting your soul from my gaze
Unwillingly torn
You fear the flame
Which can never burn you
Drifting away to cooler waters
Etherial as a cloud
You tremble with uncertainty
Hardly there at all
Falling through my outstretched fingers
The door revolves around me
As I anticipate the flash of cold
And hold my breath to meet the change
Both painful and delicious
Night falls bringing only darkness
A dark heat with the frigid flow of
Cool washing over legs as we pass
The beckoning doorways on Bourbon Street
Beers and Hurricanes to go
Blues echoing from gritty rooms
Burlesque salesmen touting their jewels
And uninhibited stumbling souls
As the Bayou recedes into intricate
Tendrils of life teaming soup
The heat becomes a permanent memory
And the voodoo charm makes me promise to return
Is nothing like Jae's
Where the gin is Bombay
And the Sushi is scrumptious
After a long day
It's the end of the Quarter
And the withdrawl is ugly
All that matters are the Numbers
Begging and stealing they
Suck the vein dry on that
Last hapless hopeful client
I hide in technology
Trying to find my blinders
I hear the gleam in their Eyes
It sickens and excites
It depresses and uplifts
Madness
The highway is straight
A direct line to the fire
But the cup of Joe calms
I settle in
Time is sucking away
So hard to meet minds
In a 3000 mile triangle
Status demanded but unfulfilling
Serious man breaths
Down my neck as I scramble
To make the machine sing
It laughs at me
But there's the sunset
Growing my world
Washing time behind it
I dive in