Sunflowers

Sunflowers.

Have you ever really seen?

Thick prickly stalks

Shooting from the soil.

Leafy greens like trunks of trees.

Shade beneath the thousand faces.

Faces.

Black grain faces.

A face of soil.

Presenting themselves high.

High to the

Light.

"This is where I come from,"

they speak,

"I am one with my ground.

The ground on my face.

My dark face.

The ground is my face.

My soil-resembling grainy dark face.

And I

am not

ashamed."

I listen to these faces.

I stare long hours at these faces.

One with the ground.

One with the light.

A fan fold of yellow petals

Encircling dark faces.

Reflecting light

those yellow petals

spreading their arms to the sun!

"Take me!" they cry,

"Let me absorb your LIGHT!

For I live to shine!"

Chorus of praise.

Chorus of light.

One turns to me.

"Take my hand.

Let us shine."

Satine to Christian (poem 3- Letter Poem, Moulin Rouge)

Dear Christian,

Don't weep, darling...

Don't tear yourself apart...

Alone at your leaky apartment,

I know you're

locking out the light

Shivering in the quiet.

Soaking your sleeves in tears and

Chilling yourself with misery to the bone...

Darling,

I am with you always.

I am yours.

Always.

My final bow ended in your arms.

The final and single chance to be a 'real actress'...

My only dream

In its final repose.

The end in my greatest gain.

My greatest love.

With you.

Don't weep, darling...

You brought me to life.

No longer a prisoner of the show-girls,

nights of ecstasy laced with

the crying of souls...

No longer a caged bird with broken wings

and thousands of

dreams...

No longer a woman draped in the musk of old cologne

smoky bars and sweaty beads of booze...

No longer, darling...

For now I am a woman

whose heart

belongs to

you.

Dry your eyes, darling.

Open the heavy wooden-paned window.

Let the light in.

Awaken your tired eyes

Stretch your arms and greet the day.

Say hello to the world, Christian.

Breathe life into your works.

Write. Publish. Love.

Love, darling, love...

Above all...

Love.

Satine

Goal (Poem 2)

Do you see it?

That light down there, a little ways.

It's a dot in the darkness.

It's far.

Do you see it?

It's glowing.

It's burning.

It's hissing at the night.

I know you see it.

It stands alone.

In the abyss.

You're crawling.

You're searching.

You're yearning.

It's waiting.

It's there.

You see it.

I know you see it.

Go.

Go.

Go get it.

Bring it back.

It's there.

It's yours.

Those Giving Eyes (Song Lyrics-Poem 1)

(stanza 1)

he plays lead guitar but he’s not in a band

bites his lip, and he’s silent when he’s mad

but the way he looks at me always makes me sad

cause i can’t let me be with him like that

(chorus)

i take apart my soul and he shows me the pieces

holds me close and irons out the creases

and those giving eyes just let me stay

and those giving eyes just let me stay

they let me stay the way i am

(stanza 2)

i’ve sobbed in his arms and i’ve kissed his hair

i tell him i’m broken and he doesn’t care

he knows that i’m leaving and i say it’s not fair

how could you love me when i’m too scared

(stanza 3)

turns out time means nothing to him

just days of the week and months of the year

and he said he’d wait as long as it takes

for love to grow forth and to let go of the fear

(chorus)

i take apart my soul and he shows me the pieces

holds me close and irons out the creases

he lets me in to who i am

and those giving eyes let me stay

and those giving eyes let me stay

the let me stay the way i am

(stanza 4)

i told him that we’re the sun and the moon

he said he’s the moon cause i reflect light on him

says i’m the one who makes him shine

cause i fought his darkness to shed light in

(stanza 5)

little by little that fear falls away

lets me loose from the pain i felt

he says that’s life, you gotta know what to do

you gotta know what to do with the cards you’re dealt

(stanza 6)

he pleads me to tell him if my feelings change

if they diminish or grow twice in size

and whenever i doubt his decision to wait

i’m silenced, lost in those giving eyes

(chorus)

i take apart my soul and he shows me the pieces

holds me close and irons out the creases

he lets me in to who i am

and those giving eyes just let me stay

and those giving eyes just let me stay

they let me stay the way i am