Poetry

Love is Addition

~ hiraethphoenix

I love you
Not because I will disintegrate
Without you,
Not because I have to lean on you,
Or topple to the ground,
Not because you understand
Every etched scar upon my soul
(some still bleed from time to time)
But
Because you choose to build a life,
A family with me,
You choose to hold me late at night,
Gorilla-grip and rhythmic breath,
You choose to venture into my
Feeling world and though most times
You are lost, you still walk bravely
Step by step
(often with a cigarette in hand)
Finally I now see that love
Is not completion,
Instead
Addition.

Copyright Hiraeth 2016

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Sea Of Self

~ hiraethphoenix

I will run along the beach
To find you,
Waves caressing my ankles:
Teasing me, beckoning me
To be free,
To find you,
To touch your sacred soul.
As I breathe, I empty
All fear and reach a rhythm:
Until I see you,
Until we meet,
Until I have words for you.
In the sea of your eyes
I lose myself,
Find my self,
Learn to love
My self.
Yes,
I will run along the beach
To find you,
Waves caressing my ankles
Teasing me,
To be free,
To find you,
To touch you.

Copyright Hiraeth 2015

Light

~ hiraethphoenix

The most intense love
I ever experienced
Was when I was at my lowest
And it wrecked my
Entire being,
I was convinced I had found a
Soul mate,
Someone I could save,
Had to save
(Instead of myself –
At the expense
Of myself)
Now I see the truth:
At my lowest low,
I connected not with
Something lighter,
But with that with which
My darkness resonated
Someone I could save,
Had to save
(Instead of myself –
At the expense
Of myself)
And just before I drowned
In darkness,
I remembered:
I am
Born
Of
Light:
I belong
To the maker
Of
Light.

Copyright Hiraeth 2015

Shadow

~ hiraethphoenix

And one day
You will no longer deny
Your shadow self, always lurking,
Always reaching to the past, the
What-ifs,
The what-coulds,
The only-ifs,
The you-should-have-been-more(s).
You will stare it down,
From toe to top
And challenge it,
I know you,
I have overcome,
I know you,
The past is done.

Copyright Hiraeth 2015

Born free

~ hiraethphoenix

One day
We will prove all the
Naysayers wrong,
We will stand exhausted, wounded,
Victorious in the sun.
Hand in hand our voices resound,
The sweet song of unity,
In our passion, in our stories found.
It won’t matter where you came from,
Or how you ended here,
Brothers and sisters we marched,
Different, defiant in the face of fear.
Forever etched in our memory,
Part of who we will be,
Yes, we are not lost
We
Are
Born
Free.

Copyright Hiraeth 2015
For the South African Class of 2015
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Once

~ hiraethphoenix

I loved you once
In the time when One Republic
Sang about angels apologizing
And the beachfront was bare,
Mall-free;
In the time you wrestled with your
Darkness, your demons waltzing
With mine to a song called destiny.
In the time you would trade love
For anything,
Everything,
Even your self.
And I loved you once,
In the time when he no longer could,
Would
And knew he should.
Yes,
I loved you once
(And sometimes when the moon sits
Crescent in the sky
I dream that forever
You were mine)

Copyright Hiraeth 2015

Recorded on Facebook

~ hiraethphoenix

Recorded on Facebook
Our forever end
On your timeline captured
That which we could not mend.
Along with the last photo
Of romantic us:
Me with a distant look,
A preoccupation that there
Must be more:
More love, more meaning, more
Than this,
You in a Rip Curl shirt, with your
Off centre smile,
Completely content,
Unaware of the approaching trial.
Recorded on Facebook
Our forever end
On your timeline captured
That which we
Chose
Not to mend.

Copyright Hiraeth 2015