SOVEREIGN :: 2012

Unassailable, bitter words are like snowflakes meeting the fibers of my sweater

Impenetrable, this flesh is like armor for any emotional weather

Invincible, this Goliath stamps David down because he is clever

Undoubtedly fresh is this perspective under the auspice Insecurity would treasure

There is a bible

Buried underneath the ground

Like soiled psalms

It blossoms melodic poetry over time.

There is a creator

Awakened within this shell

His visions are thirsty for agents

Adept at turning water into wine.

There is a nomad

So connected to others

His empathic umbilical cord

Is forever tethered to their minds.

This is the story

Of the creation of a giant

Of a sun that rose within himself

And said this life… this life is mine.

Untouchable, like pictures on the internet I will only fuck your imagination

Impregnable, a kiss can be like scaling a fortress of a sovereign nation

Irrefutable, solace is a devotion to my masculinization

How else will I be the man, I am to be, if I can’t embrace my own consternation

Some things are meant to never end.

Let the giant roam the earth...

Sovereign.

FUTURE'S MONARCH :: 2012

Richie/

I will never be prepared

For my future.

Holding back

Will never stifle change.

Futile is creating walls

To stop the flow of feeling -

When they always crumble

Under purpose’s reign

Destiny’s prison

Is a self-imposed cell

Devoid of risk’s imagination.

There is no crown,

There is no glory,

There is only a death

By conformity’s stagnation.

I feel as if the sun has risen

Inside of me.

That this tender source

Of unbridled empathy…

Fuels what others

Could never know,

Could never see -

That longing

To be great,

To be greater than the sum of me.

There is nothing more powerful

Than growing older,

Because each experience

Brings me closer

To my own divine truth.

These wrinkles

That would be erased

Are the remnants of smiles

And tears

That I’ll be damned

That I ever lose.

You see,

These are my photographs.

My body is my scrapbook

And occasionally

There are markings

Etched into my skin

That reflect what a moment

Gave and I willingly took.

This is my bible

This is my history.

This is my legacy

Built by my haus

Of liberté.

I craft my inner kingdom

Like a Sphinx

I will never tell my secrets

I hold them inside of me.

24 HOURS :: 2012

Richie/

24 hours to seduce you

1 late morning to devour you

Seconds to unravel

The fabric of your resistance

Heartbeats

To drown out no

With oui’s assistance

24 hours to play this game

And see it through

Fruition

A lifetime

To play back

This brief

Carnal

Expedition

Flow my way

Unrestricted

Words

Like freely spinning webs

Draping

Flesh

Like the cobwebs

In our head

I have no fear

Of rejection

It’s just

Temptations kiss

And I always want more

What I expect

Tomorrow

I will miss

The hand

That touched the knee

That touched the chest

That touched the imagination

To bring out

A moment’s crest

Like a coat of arms

I’d wear it proudly

Carved into my chest

I devoured your life’s breath

In the wake of a day

I had no reservations

No sense of regret

To impede my way

RETURN TO INNOCENCE :: 2011

Dedicated to JC

You graced my presence

Like a Disney princess

I watched you move your lips

And a bird descends

Like a gentle snowflake

To your outreached fingertip

Laying beside you

Was like osmosis

I now feel you inside of me

I pull from your sensitive strength

The kind of love

The kind of energy

I want attached to me

Darkness was my muse

Tragedy broke my spirit

So that creativity could

Run free

Like a river of goodness

You broke a dam

Built up

To protect that innocence

Deep inside of me

And now I feel

Those currents

Wrap around my mind

Like a tornado of veracity

You will be my muse

And make a real man out of me

More powerful

Than anything I could gain

On my own

Is the return to innocence

That your presence

Has shown

I found that Light

Still burns

Like a silent flame

Deep inside of me

Forgotten no more

I rescind my neglect

And I stoke that flame

So that it consumes me