I Like...

Your hand in mine

Blue skies after wet rain

Ruby red wine

Complex exciting brain

Thoughts that stay throughout the day

Childlike-me just wants to play 

Far off lands and odysseys

Fun-filled secret fantasies

Golden hues and vivid green

Hidden treasures not yet seen

Outside air kissing skin

Sensuality flooding in 

Colours splash across the page

Skip grim-grey, don't want to age

See this life with vibrant youth

Speak all words with earnest truth

Spinning world with steady ground

Moving pictures filled with sound

My One Wish...

Now is the time

Hold it

Before it takes flight

Closing hand

Feel gently

Between finger and thumb

What is real

And all that is right

Quivering voice deep within

Push it down

Best not let that begin

Will drown out 

The sound of you

Choose the right voice

To listen to

Fluttering wings

Fragile body

Eyes scanning skies

High and low

For god's sake

Don't let this go

Holding breath

Standing tall

Made it this far

Avoid a fall

Keep stepping 

Heel to toe

Feel earth underfoot

Shuffle one then two

You know what to do

Clasp that hand

Try not to misunderstand

There are no doubts

No reservations

Being here with you

Feel that flutter

Delicate thing

Don't want to be hurt

Shouldn't have to think

Just be at one

With all that has begun

Feel all that I am

Finally realise

I see my true self 

Reflected in those eyes

Slowly release a once tightly formed grip

Let it flow and just be so

I am me 

That is all that I have ever wanted to be

Lengthening stride 

As I grow from deep inside

I don't know how this began

You were just this man

But I know who I am 

And all that I feel

My one wish

Just keep it real

The Day...

I first felt you
There beside me
I had no words.
No knowledge,
No grasp of what
Would be coming next.
That was the day
When what I had ever known
Would simply be wiped away.

From those first
Mouthfuls of you
Gently imbibed
A breathy blend of
Whisky and intrigue
Distinct expressiveness
That wove through
Artful conversation.
All this;
Yes
You piqued my interest.
Touched me somewhere new
I was there
Present in the moment
Finding me through you.

An intense clarity in your eyes
Reflected me back.
Simple honesty
Uncomplicated
I was here
Engaged and willing
Something about you
Who, and how you are
Led me to share
Small mouth-sized bites of me
And as time carried us
Through that night
Our lives began to touch

And as that day
Morphed into those moments
That ended and began
Whitewashed working weeks,
I began to
Physically
Emotionally
Intellectually
Let you in
To places that even
I had never seen.

Subconsciously
Perhaps,
I don't recall the thought;
The deliberation
The question.
I knew I felt
Different.
An organic
Lifting of the layers
Began way before this
First time meet.
Smudged fingerprints of former lives spent
Traced their way across our written words
And cracks of light spilled through
The pages of what would become
This;
The Story of Us.

And here you were
Right beside me
This physical presence
A manifestation of
Those gentle nudges
As you questioned your own
life learning,
Offering
Acute insights and
Acrid admonishments
Of that once-little boy
Earnest and deserving

The day I first felt you
Inside me
Wanting
Needing
Believing
No falter
No hesitation
Accepting
That this felt right
No awkwardness
For us to clamber over
Part-pasts too painful to 
Pointlessly paint over
So we shared
What was right
Peeling back our layers
As we slipped silently
Safely into the night
Yes
That is the day
I felt us 

Doesn't Matter...

Strewn clothes

Warm fuzziness

That hangs right here

Rain spattered window panes

Cold flagstone floors

Ticking clocks

Smallgoods and homemade breads

Ever changing skies

Clumps of clouds roll in

As mundanities roll out

Sighs out to sea

Nestled up here

You with me

Steam rising, curling smoke

Amber glows, popping wood

Writing words and reading books

Feelings shared in just those looks

Doesn't matter where 

As long as we are both there 

Two Small Worlds...

Yes,

It is undeniably true

When I say I have fallen simply for you.

Yet

There are days in my head where there's nothing but blue,

I have an ache that hovers as it softly seeps through

Layers, once mine but are now me and you.

I've been thinking about Us, you see

And what it is to be here, as me.

Floating along on this love-lapping tide,

I sometimes get caught while lost in our ride.

Emotions and colours escape once tied.

Synchronicity. Yes, that is you by my side.

Serendipitous as two small worlds quietly collide.

One Adventure