I folded up your picture. The only one I held Un-seeing what you felt like The day I had to leave. I creased your likeness empty When decided Into war When blood and brothers beckoned The day I chose to leave. I pressed you into silence While virtue had its voice Regret unsaid unnamed untold… Continue reading Heart Locket
Wild is the ocean. Where expanse swallows October. Ravens circle, they know the time. When the swell dips too low. And the peaks shoot high. The season when even careless shipmen practice wisdom. They’ve heard, they’ve learned, that our journey will end under the world. The water is made for drowning. We know it, It… Continue reading Where we Float, The Ocean Wild
What is the truth? That the Gospel doesn’t change you, clean you, mean you will feel any different But the truth is It will push you, thrust you, disgust you About you And you will be the least. Say the truth Which you can’t speak So you won’t say But every day it plays On… Continue reading Say the Truth
Blank words stuck Under the tongue Inside the gum I chew and meditate The words. Regurgitate. I taste too late Guilt aftertaste Harsh reprobate She’s spoken in my name I knew better It didn’t matter My words had scattered From the top-down tower They didn’t bow Or Blink or bother The Father or His breath… Continue reading Prophet
Intensify After my dream Looping in heaven Crashing to earth Drinks on the beach But cycles teach my hopefuls to die. Why is it easier to remember than to forget? One thing I remember Is everything dies. So Did it die? Or is it just sleeping? Or is that my hopefuls Again beating the horse.
From the beginning the poems began. All good things lay there. Yet no one wants to go home. To what end? We all return to the master. But my problem is His mercy Because my life breathes in The in-between. The flavor between the drink The silence when my heart’s not beating The tingle between… Continue reading Living In-Between
No one is righteous No one is righteous No one is righteous Not even me. So why do I think I am. Why do act like I am. Once upon a time I wanted God to think I was the one Righteous. But then I was honest No one is happy No one is bold… Continue reading No One
I saw it in my dream or future. When I will put my gods to sleep. Now's not the time. It's too soon. Or way too late. Now They numb, gnawing my nerves stinging like pleasures. They stroke, scraping their nails, across my surfaces. They kiss, biting icy dry lips underneath my glosses. I feel… Continue reading When the Time Comes
Stones on her path, always wanted to touch them But always just wandering, running right past Smooth, hard, she finally did it one day Reached out with her fingers, velvet soft And took for herself. Just this once. She could throw it in the ocean Skip it over the waves Break the boundaries of endless… Continue reading Lucky Stone
Wanting or wandering freedom That doesn’t ever exist Where love is Is always a sovereign A rule maker Authority lover Who keeps and reveals the right Searching for freedom Thrills for the light And still There is sameness to see Under ocean Deep blackness Above sky bleak pressure At the bar Drink alcohol All drowning… Continue reading why?
Cindy Koch 