Dare you ask
How to describe love
Like asking about the taste of water
Or the scent of a thousand rose beds
It can only be experienced
With all its suffering
Torment
It’s end
And zeal
Do not ask me of its meaning
I only
Want to know more
Tag: poetry
Upon My Soul
Let a thousand past lovers
Point me to you beloved
Bring me fulfillment
With your whispering touch
Having thought I had known
The sweetness of caress
Oh let me smile
In wonder now
with each of your affections
Upon my soul
Forever
I have planted you
In every place I’ve gone
In hopes you blossom
Be it in another’s earth
To have held you close
A memory for lifetimes to come
Fill up every void
Defining love and loss
Birth and death
Blurring lines in its disobedience
Lawless in action
Wanton spirit to explain
How we did hold the sun and moon
When our embrace created breath
I still inhale you
Envious the rose became
Interchangeable
All the same
Buried you in the air I breathe
This is how I’ve set you apart
Forever
Truly
Do not think of me keenly
I do promise thee
That I will fail you
And leave tears where Love reigned
This admiration you feel
Is merely illusion
Only the Heavenly Father
Deserves this praise
I am just a man
Try as might
To forget this reality
I am fallen
But loved by his creator
I can only ask forgiveness of thee
For my foolish ways
Words and actions
I pray you know
This love in my heart
That grows with his every word
Because it is there
That you will know me
Truly
Scripture
Tell me
You’ll pray with me
That God will be first in all we do
And when you see me on my knees
Thankful in tears
That you’ll join beside me
Bow your head as I do
Whisper sweet nothings
In my creators ears
Where it becomes everything
And from there
Our love can blossom
With the promise of today
Tomorrow
What was
washed away
As his hands touch ours
This will be our courting season
Not Netflix and chill
But Scripture and prayers
Tell me this is you
And every mistake before you
Shall be erased
Tell me
That Moment
That moment
Right before
Where anticipation
Brings warmth
That is where
I want you
Forever
Redeemed
There is no religion
Words and dogmas will always fall short
Books can be burned
Erased
Used for selfish gain
Rituals designed by he who holds authority
Only disguise your lack of knowledge
No need to chant incessant sounds
Nor prostrate into various forms
Repeating syllables over and over won’t do
Even music falls short
I can sing forever
And dance in place
All this just a work out of the body
Can bleed out animal after animal
On hand made idols
Babble language, speak in tongues
It all fails
Before the one who gave it all
Neither Church walls
Nor Mosque floors
Monk postures
Will suffice
All that we can build crumbles
All that we own isn’t ours
When 10 out of 10 people die
There’s only one escape
One promise
Of which none other can make
No other dogma can assure
I will put my trust in him
Who gave to me and didn’t demand in return
For he loves me so
Let all those around me depart
Let them think me crazy
Talk about me behind my back
It never stopped you before
I have hope in him
When the darkness of life beckons you
Where will your hope be in?
Who will be your advocate?
I now have mine
For I stand redeemed in his blood
Remnants
I can smile
And know
That yes there was a moment
When our hands binded as one
And the fragrance of breeze
Made fantasy actual
There wasn’t any need
For sustenance as food
As we existed from loves nectar
It was there
I vowed protector
And as it were
Through the years
Emptied from such duty
Only did a shell remain
And what was love
Withered in dust
It is said
It’s better to have loved
Than to never have loved before
I evoke curses upon
The barer of such a scourge
That with its departure
Left remnants of a heart
Full Circle
I found a space
Between the in and out
Restriction holding no obligation
Where I could finally lay my anguish
There and only there I’m to know
Rest once more
Evading Mara
The tempter iblis
The armies of destitution
I shall recover what was lost
Coming full circle
Facing myself
Clutching dark
To discover light
Discerning this moment from that juncture
Setting free it’s cause and effect
And finding deliverance
Breaking the stronghold
Of disillusion
I will form a treaty
Within Ego and heaven
It is there that I will treasure me
Anew
Separate from all I know and knew
In between every breath
I found a space
Axel Garcia 