8/fold

The fifth in a set of NINE.

Artwork generated by CrAIyon (formerly DALL-E mini).

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8/fold expanse of
What is God, if/than Love?
Loss and life,
Sky and falling like the heat before rain.
Cutting like a good knife;
Darling,
I would,
To eat your pain.

What a laugh,
A belly-ache and half-full
Dull to and of,
Be
Not to love me,
Gone before you know, leave
Can’t be sure, too
Low
Go back a second,
First you see it then you don’t…
Breathe.

Tomorrow, she
Red of face and skin,
Sorrow,
To bleed
Blue now red,
Need
Tongue cold,
Begin again,
So young-old,
Maybe,
With extended spine,
Divine and mine will
Swish the flies away,
Dead, yours, “not mine”,
No plague, doors cleared of fear today,
If I asked what would you say?

Only to want it all,
Yet
Needing nothing, set
Feeling something, get
Going
Like the needle to the groove,
Flowing,
Your feet will do move,
Knowing,
Though it might surprise you,
What you thought you left behind is still beside you,
That light you thought was out is still inside you,
Glowing,
Whether showing,
Or let to be for only you to see.

No moment like the one we’re given,
No home quite like the one we live in,
So
Just be, with me,
In this time and place we
Can lie face to face,
See
In embrace,
No distance, space
Between
Just eyes and that which lies behind,
A beautiful face belies an even more incredible mind,
Soul
Something I can never really find, let alone hold
Though it means much more than any fine stone, gold
More than any path, whether
Sticks, bricks, leather
Or 8/fold.