love letter to the sun

The winter sun is so much different than the summer sun
sure she shines all the same
but the heat is barely there.
I wish I could adequately explain the way the feeling’s different too.
The way she touches my skin
and meets my eye, reminding me of all the winters passed.
Shivering cold, replaying memories of warmer days.
The summer sun too conceals in her some secrets.
Languid and lazy she beats down and brings the calidity.
Perhaps it’s the Leo n me but the sun contains it all
give me a quiet Sunday afternoon, an 80’s guitar riff
and closed eyes seeing not black but red
all of a sudden I can see right through to simpler days.
Satiated afternoons and effortless joy.
The ignorance only a child possesses, contentment running deep.
I could write entire novels about natures ever present, gentle power.
Bringing for that comforting feelings
“Oh, I’ve been here before”
and so I will again & again.

there’s no place like….

There is nothing worth saying right now
We have been stripped of our freedoms time & time again
I am a caged bird who refuses to sing
I am bored and restless and anxious for the future.
Others are wondering how they’ll pay their rent or buy food
and I’ve been there, albeit for different reasons
I know it’s hard and it’s petrifying and it’s degrading.
Screaming into the void seems like the only option
and even that won’t help.
So what do I do? Where do I turn my soul and guide my energy?
To what ends does this go?

Trapped animals are looked upon with sad eyes
Now we look inward with those sad stares
It’s almost in jest, the irony, the way we have become inhuman ourselves.
I am somehow both exhausted and restive
Eager to find any glimmer of hope, any sign this might end
You would think this would at least inspire good art
but even that too feels pointless.

I am full of nihilistic indifference
Still desperately clinging on to scraps of hope
because what else can we do?
How else can we keep alive that thing in each of us that screams
“Keep going! Keep going!”
I have wanted to die many times
this is a different feeling entirely.
An unhinged claustrophobia that threatens to spill over in any way it can.

One Year

A year has gone by
and not a day I haven’t thought of you
Sometimes I feel like my heart was buried with you
not my physical heart, of course
but the one that still hurts.

I loved you at a time when i needed to be seen
and somehow you saw me
You taught me a new way to be strong
when everyone else thinks your dreams are ridiculous

I’ll never know another soul like yours
for it was truly one of a kind
not in a corny hallmark way
more like the protagonist of an epic poem
dark, moody, determined, and underneath it all, a heart of gold.

I see you in everything
from the howls I hear at night
to the chills that run up my spine
I carry you with me always

The days pass and soon too will the years
I know how time progresses, the endless march
and yet there you are, in my mind as ever before
unchanging for eternity
an angel as ever you are.

Discourse on Grief

I sit here today and I think of you. I think of you often, everyday even, but today it’s supposed to be different because today is your birthday and it both is different and isn’t different all the same.

The missing you is still the same, the cruel way the brain can skip down memory lane, suspending for a moment your knowledge of reality, that these images one can conjure up so eloquently are fading fading fading and at the end of it all you’re still gone.

While this is your first birthday that you’re gone, it’s a reminder that while life moves on, and everyone you once knew is growing up and growing old and going on with the march of time, you will forever be crystallized as a young man, still very much a boy at heart, with so much pain and so much potential. I will forever remember your sheepish grin and tendency to be covered in bruises and scrapes and the way you were always fighting; fighting to be better, stronger, smarter…fighting but always with something funny to say about it. To somehow both be a source of light and joy and childish humour but also a person with the type of wisdom you either have or you don’t, that comes from somewhere deep and dark.

A true example of the notion of the two wolves that live inside each of us, yours were constantly battling and while I am forever torn apart by the winner of that competition, I still feel so lucky that I got to know both sides. That I got to laugh and enjoy life with you and that the broken parts of me felt absolutely seen by the broken parts of you.

Today is the same and it is different and every day since you’ve left has been tinged with unquestionable sadness and loss that often feels unbearable. But one thing I know about loss is that it is bearable, you get up and you go on and while I may not know why that is, I know that it is and so I sit here and I think of you.

questions

Me and my crystals and my
wine.

My feelings are so fucking loud I can’t
drown
suffocate
forget
leave behind.

Everything sticks to me
good
and bad.

It permeates my skin it
forms my being.
I am an amalgamation of my experiences.

Balance balance balance!!!!
All I seek is balance.

No wait

all I seek is to be seen…..
understood.

What do you do when the one person
who
SAW
you
is gone forever?

It all comes back to fucking
you.

At least I am justified in my obsession
a part of me always knew I’d lose
you.

Why couldn’t you be stronger?
Why do I have to be the one to survive
over and over again

The men in my life simply
expire
without any answers for their emotional turmoil

One day……

well I dare not say.

Discourse on Duality

There exists in me so many versions, “duality” doesn’t seem to cover it. Yet, I guess anything can be broken down into binaries…I am many versions of myself. I am all sorts of confluencing parts & pieces, so often seemingly at odds, by their very nature. I worry I am both too smart and not smart enough & I worry that the empathy and kindness I think I possess is just another reflection of narcissism; the way in which we all see the world through our own specific point of view. How can any one person know or decide what is truly good or right? We can spend all day doing mental gymnastics, trying to justify our beliefs but at the end of the day the logic is predicated on absolutes, of which we can truly know nothing for certain. And so here we arrive at absurdism or nihilism or perhaps you prefer to pawn it off to Gods or Spirits, all in all it shows how truly reticent we are to dive head first into the unknown. There always has to be an answer. The ultimate duality presents itself as the desire to know in absolutes and the fear of any unknowns.

what doesn’t kill you

Grief is a big feeling
that comfortably stretches out over time
expanding & contracting
unable to be contained

She will consume you if you let her
the deep dark cavernous halls
she’ll show you deep inside

The fire burns
but does she devour inwards or outwards
what is life without suffering,
the perfect partner to pleasure

My tears they fall like rain
and yet I laugh
to keep such pain is to know such love

How lucky am I
my heart breaks so deeply
if only because my highs feel heavenly
I am a god, I am dirt.

hot hot heat

The casual caliente nature that is evoked by the sounds of a Spanish guitar
Feeling the soft, sticky hot breeze.
A lick of my salty smooth skin.

My hips move to the music,
the way the leaves sway gently in the wind.
I glisten, I glow.

A warmth, a devilish nature.
I’ve always had this thing inside me;
burning passion ready to escape.

The sun shines down on me
heating up my body
reminding me of the ardor of the day.

The evening moon creeps in slowly
basking me in luminous light
casting devious shadows.

I am both contained and unrestrained
painfully self-contained
begging to break free.

reflections on being

I struggle to write the right thing,
always concerned with if I sound
deep enough, consumable enough
like, would I like this if I read it on instagram?

Is it relatable enough? Trendy enough?
Did I reference the right thing? Do I have the right problems?
Or is it just obvious and contrived.

Is this my inner critic?
Or a glimpse of the truth?
The black and white,
the back & forth.

The latent insecurity, lets not forget about that.
Protection of image, protection of ego.
Unnecessary tethers I can’t seem to shake.

I try to educate myself into the person I want to be,
like if I read this book or take this class,
or get that job,
I’ll be smart enough, good enough, important enough.

Why is being in itself not gratifying,
that I must constantly seek to find value.
An impending need to cement my unknown legacy.

First Encounter

I could write about storms or sunshine, I could regale you with tales of drama and debauchery, or I could lament, but oh how I’ve already lamented (can one ever lament too much though, really?). Surely those aren’t the only options but less I digress into endless list making and distract myself from the tale at large….I mean the tale on the tip of my tongue begging to come out! Only, you’ll never believe me if I tell you, will you? There’s only one way to find out, as the old saying goes.

This tale is not like the others, or maybe it is, a little bit. But in a lot of ways its really quite different. Like I said, you have to go with me a bit, suspend your disbelief, slip into the grey area of the imagination, well I mean it should really be called the rainbow prism of the imagination, but yet again I digress.

There’s something so tantalizing about the start of a good story, the way you lean in closer and adjust yourself accordingly to get the best view or earshot or whatever. It must be human nature, the art of gossip, of talking amongst one another, about one another. Yet this is a tale about me. At least I think it was me, at this point it almost feels like a dream.

You’re probably wondering what’s going on, when is the story going to start. I promise this is all going somewhere, I’m not building you up just to bring you down. I just want to set the stage, set the mood, set the tone, really. Once we reach the peak I’m sure you’ll understand my point.

Anyways, here goes, like promised. I’m about to start. It was a night like no other, I was listening to music; something soft and unassuming, real background music type vibes. I was paying light attention to my surroundings, growing dimmer as the late autumn sun crawled beneath the horizon. I shivered slightly, feeling the cool chill brought on by the last kiss of summer. I had layered up, knowing the warm days could turn deceivingly brisk, but I had to admit the layers were light and the outfit was of course for looks more than function.

Now we’re getting to the part where you probably won’t believe me, but I swear you need to just trust me, suspend your disbelief. So there I was walking along the near deserted backroads, fields on either side of me, filled with various crops and animals, houses few and far between, the music humming gently in my ears, I skip along really, more than I walk. My own personal music video. At least in my head. Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about. Okay so here’s where it gets weird.

I am suddenly overcome by a spine chilling feeling, like a line of ants just crawled up my back as my blood runs with ice. Then I see it, the telltale blinding light that starts every story like this. And I hear the strange hyper-realistic sound, a noise I both can’t quite place and seem to have always known. I am scared in a nervous way yet something cements my feet to the ground and my music has seemingly shut off to match the mood. (Smart phones really are getting too smart).

After what feels like forever the light dims down to a visible level and I see a shiny metal shape emerging in the distance. A round disk with flashing lights and high-tech looking gear and knobs and nozzles protruding from every which way. The door starts to open; my breath catches in my chest. The world seems to hit pause. Only the door is moving. Slowly. Painfully slowly. A figure emerges from the smoke – do they have a smoke machine on board?! The way my brain wanders….even at a time like this.

Suddenly the figure approaches me, my feet still held in place by their invisible bonds. I can’t help but feel the excitement creeping up through my toes, up through my calves, my thighs, my stomach, my chest, my neck, right up to the very crown of my head. My eyes adjust to the strange surroundings and focus on the figure approaching, expecting……expecting………well not at all what the fuck I’m seeing right now.

Before me stands the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen. Tall, dark, handsome, all of the classic adjectives and some how more. His eyes betray a sort of emotional intelligence and softness, yet he is unmistakably smouldering with masculine energy. Suddenly I am scared, but in a whole new, excited way. In fact I can feel my tiny lacy thong growing wetter by the second. What kind of sick mirage was I experiencing?

He continues his slow determined stride towards my frozen figure. I stand mesmerized and curious, on the edge of my seat….or I guess feet, waiting to see what would happen next. Suddenly he was standing right in front of me, more perfect and glistening closer up. The aura he was exuding was impossible to ignore. The seemingly ideal specimen a few inches away. “Don’t be scared.” said the low, steady voice, reading my mind. “My name is X7Gh8jI90- HU*, but you can call me Xavier” he said with a smirk. He, there I go gendering the alien.

“Would you like to see my ship” his voice was almost playful, his eyes impossible to read now. “I……I………yeah sure” was all I could muster. He took my hand and suddenly electric shocks ran through my body and my feet were once again able to move as normal. I followed Xavier without hesitation towards the ship. I was almost certain no one would ever believe me at this point, but I couldn’t help but see it through.

I climbed slowly up the ramp towards the, really honestly rave-resembling, inner hull of the spaceship. “This is my, uh crib, I think you would say here?”. With that I couldn’t help but burst out laughing, momentarily forgetting that I was in the presence of ET. You would expect Xavier to blush, but no, he smiled, seemingly delighted by my amusement. What a captivating creature. Xavier continued to show me around the lofted space, the various control panels and command centres looking absolutely sci-fi, while the kitchen, living room, and bathrooms looked exactly like they would on a cruise ship. I was definitely impressed. Yet I couldn’t help myself…..

“Where do you sleep……..amongst other things” the last part was under my breath, or so I thought. Xavier smiled at me again, this time in a more devouring, salacious kind of way. Again I felt shivers, but this time they weren’t up my spine. “Let me show you” he said, his voice delicious black velvet. This was unlike any of the space media I had consumed, or even heard of.

Again Xavier reached for my hand, each time he touched me a new spark ignited somewhere deep down inside of me. It was a longer walk than expected, though once there it did not disappoint. Aliens really know how to do comfort and luxury, let me tell you that much. There was rich colours and plush fabrics, ornate metals and glasses, tasteful and bold. The pièce de résistance a gorgeous California king (and then some, honestly), a canopy bed with sturdier than usual looking posts and the same dark, rich, plush, ornate theme that encompassed the entire room.

I walked around the room, taking time to look at all of the various features and decorations, doing my best to avoid the bed, certain that it was the only thing on both our minds. “Like what you see?” Xavier asked, though I had a feeling it was more of a thought than a question by the way it seemed to come out in a purr. I turned towards the bed and walked over, running my hand along the ever soft duvet while looking him straight in the bright green eyes. My breath caught in my throat at this point, again time seemed suspended as I calculated my next move. Suddenly I was at the left bottom post of the bed and I noticed a metal ring. “What’s this?” I asked.

Now he really grinned, full on sinister like, and yet, I had never been more turned on in my life. My pussy was on fire at this point and it took everything to maintain eye contact and not let my eyes roam down his tight body to check if his pants were as tented as I hoped they’d be. Xavier strode confidently over to me and swooped me up with what seemed like the movement of a prima ballerina, yet I could feel his strength enveloping me. I had no idea what I was doing at this point. I just knew I wanted to keep going. His hand grabbed the side of my face firmly drawing it towards his own as his soft lips pressed into mine, his tongue just gently grazing the entrance of my lips as I yielded to him completely.

Xavier opened the drawer beside him and pulled out four cuffs with silver chains that matched the rings that I now realized were on all four pillars of the bed. “Now, I’d hate to ruin such a sexy outfit. Why don’t you take it off for me” he commanded. I obeyed. I slipped off my clothes, hands trembling slightly, me trying desperately to hide my growing excitement. “Everything” he purred again, once I had gotten down to my bra and panties and hesitated. I looked up at him through my lashes, daring him to make the next move. He flipped me so that my head was facing the end of the bed, slightly hanging off the edge, my back on the mattress and quickly secured the four cuffs and chains to my arms, legs, and the bed posts, respectively.

He stepped away, standing in front of my now upside down view, he began to remove his own space clothing. He revealed a body that was as perfect as I had imagined, so much so that I basically started salivating as he removed his shirt and began to unfasten his pants. I couldn’t wait for what was to come next. Xavier slid his pants down painfully slow, his black boxers betraying the ever present bulge growing harder by the second. “Are you ready” he taunted as he stepped towards me, finally hooking his thumbs into his waistband and lowering the last layer of fabric off his chiseled body.

His hard cock sprung out and it was the most perfect delicious looking dick I had ever seen in my life, I had to have it in me at that very moment. I went to reach out for him instinctively, forgetting my shackles. He laughed. “I’ll take that as a yes” he pushed his tip into my mouth, my tongue eagerly awaiting it’s entry, as I began to lick and suck all the way up and down his shaft as he thrust gently in my mouth. He increased the pace of his thrusts, his long hard cock beginning to hit the back of my throat as he deep-throat-face- fucked my eager mouth.

Suddenly his hands started working down my body, first massaging my breasts than moving ever so painfully slow down my taut stomach towards my aching pussy. He found my clit with expert dexterity and began to massage his fingers around it, all the while pressing his palm down onto my mound stimulating all the nerves he could with one hand. I wiggled under his weight and his hands, now working tirelessly to make me cum. I couldn’t help myself as I felt my pussy began to tighten and I lost control of my mouth, not that it mattered, the way he was driving the ship at that point.

“I’m going to fuck you now” he growled at me, suddenly sounding animalistic, or rather, alien-istic. He was on top of me in an instant, the weight of his gorgeous body pressing against mine ever so sensually. He looked into my eyes and kissed me deeply, for a moment, we simply explored each others bodies, while our mouths did the talking, in quite a close and contained way. Xavier pulled away and directed his rock hard throbbing cock towards my slick entrance, teasing the slit with the head of his dick. “Please…..fuck me already” I couldn’t stop myself from moaning. With that he plunged his stiff member into my opening and I saw stars instantly, I had never felt such instantaneous pleasure, not an orgasm, but the immense decadence of the tease.

His thrusts were impeccable, alternating speeds, depths and strength at varying, delectable intervals, all the while one hand continued to stimulate my pulsing clit while the other squeezed my neck in just the right way. I squirmed unable to contain myself as I felt another orgasm begin to build from deep within me. “I….I’m……..I’mmm gonnnnna cum” I stuttered again, my brain melting under the effects of extreme pleasure. “Good.” was all that came as response. Suddenly I felt it building from my pussy, spreading outward through my limbs, my neural pathways seemingly all alight as I began to gush, squirting and cumming at the same time. “Thats a good girl” Xavier purred with ferocity as he continued to pump in and out of me all the while the waves of pleasure rode through me, racking my body.

“Now it’s my turn” he said, breathy and excited, “open your mouth”. I did as I was instructed without even thinking, he shoved his dick down my throat once again and a torrent of salty sweet hot liquid poured down it. I lay there panting, unable to process what just happened, as Xavier removed the cuffs and scooped me onto his lap, petting my hair, kissing me all over. “There’s just something about you” he mused, half to me, half to himself, fully to some entity known as the universe. I told you you’d never believe me once I told you my story.