Why Have You Forsaken Me

living deaths often

scream enlivening yeahs to

break free of all ways                       

Cross Fertilizing

wed hate love

                            to brew

tough love 

                   forgiving for not

knowing what we do

Wind Dance Without Within

no solid food

reveals through moods

all wind I breathe

dances in me

nourishing cells

guiding me well

I’d like to fly

even if I die

by diving in

to loving wind

but I’m a man

who walks on sand                                     

when moved by greed

to rush seize squeeze

I want to scream

out of this dream

stone please be bread

or I’ll be dead

but freeze my greed

until you seed

desires to free

humanity

with loving care

we breathe through air

divinity's here when we feel

we are all one

is truly real

while we adore

whose by our door 

Baptize Us Wise

  Baptize Us Wise  

Under water he holds me down

till I feel I’m going to drown.

While I am breathless in John’s hands
I’ve made a friend who understands

desires we have to share and care

are as strong as our need for air.

My first gulp of air

feels breath’s a prayer

creating with love

peaceful as a dove

birth of an adult child

who’ll find how in the wild

earth water sun and sky

re-birth whene’er we die.

Aware Air Cares

Every spring we travel to Jerusalem

    where our Passover Seder

    inspires us to create

    new ways to be free.

When I am twelve,

while my parents are journeying home, 

   they are shocked I am missing.

After searching for three days

   they are amazed to find me 

   teaching adults in the temple.

I tell my negligent parents

    to join my new family

breathing in sacred air

a parent who always cares.

Primal Love

 

Neighbors call me bastard, 
but told how shepherds adored me 
when I was born in a stable,

I feel loved and able to love
like a domestic animal.