life: acoustic & amplified

word play

Branford Point Sunrise by Timothy Siebold (facebook / Branford Photography)

You cast no shadow.

I noticed,

The day after forever.

Standing taller than life

Through your grief and strife,

I saw you,

And you cast no shadow.

Like any man my age,

The ghost of a younger self

Makes war against the sage.

My passion waned but not contained;

My wisdom larger than it had been

Was stretched and nearly at an end;

I saw you had no shadow,

And I didn’t comprehend.

I looked, I saw,

But there was no shadow.

I felt you were near

by the warmth in my skin.

I wanted to be more than I ever had been.

The smile in your eyes,

Made me want to know more.

And every day of learning,

Brought me through another door.

Every word that you spoke,

Every truth you intoned,

The gleaming person forged in tests

Of strength and character

Will, purpose, and ambition

Brought my desire to new peaks.

Still, you cast no shadow.

The gilt, gold hair

I could not believe was there

Oh I reached to touch,

Expecting nothing but air.

My fingers tasted fire,

And I knew it then.

The flames that I felt burning,

Also burned within you.

My resistance was through

The fight I waged was done,

I was standing to the right of the Sun.

🌕

TO THE RIGHT OF THE SUN by Charles Cooper

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i…<
m…

I am too much

I am a force of nature

I am powerful beyond measure

I am the unlimited potential of love

I am ever expanding spirit

I am extravagantly sensual

I am supreme intense sensitivity

I am fire that consumes

I am light that blinds and reveals

I am burning desire

I am a collector of moments and memories

I am an untamed being of wild riotous feeling

I am passionate hunger

I am raging waterfalls

I am the deepest ocean

I am whiskey in a teapot

I am the whitest bull you've ever seen

I am flesh and bones and harmonious aging

I am all eyes and lips and never-ending kisses,

leading ever onward to never-ending touch

I am the moon-surge of wanting to know and be known

I am too bloody stubborn

and too many words

I am music, all music

everyday, all the time

I know it's a lot

all that I am

I am just at the very beginning

of knowing myself

❤️

Amy Lloyd