Regardless

I saw you,

I met you,

I loved you,

I left you,

I asked you,

If you knew,

How it feels when something is just really out of place and doesn’t exactly fit,

And do you?

If you knew,

Then would you,

Remind me,

Why you do,

What you do,

And how you,

Remind me,

Of you through

All these little intruding thoughts and memories that really just throw off the flow of things on a day to day basis?

Yes you do,

Pervade through,

My mind and,

Manage to,

Remind me,

Of how you,

Wanted to

Rearrange the structure of my life and completely disrupt my nicely established patterns.

So if you,

Won’t mind to,

Back off and

Just try to,

Resort to,

A brand new,

Restructured,

Life’s worldview

Then maybe I won’t find it so difficult to get rid of your dissonant and non-conformist memories and simply be able to move on with my life.

But then again…

If you go,

And turn heel,

You won’t know,

How I feel.

I can’t say,

Anyway,

In my rhymes,

And strict times

How you so beautifully obliterated my preconceived notions of order and showed me something so much better, so much more.

So you knew,

All along,

It’s simple,

And never wrong,

To tell you,

My darling,

In verse or

In song,

Regardless

Of flow,

Regardless

Of tune,

So long as

You know that

I love you.

A Walk on the Beach

This one goes out to all you beautiful people waiting as anxiously as I am for Spring Break. Enjoy.

A wisp, a wave, a wave abashed

About my ankles dared to crash.

A cave, a grave, a grave brand new,

Opened up to swallow my shoe,

But death, a breath, a breath renewed,

By salt and sand and light anew.

What’s more, a shore, a shore of stars

Sprawled out in perfect silver bars.

A hope, a dawn, a dawn in sight,

Beauty of simple, daunting might.

I start, I step, I step away,

Out of my grave, and on my way.