make sure your heart beats once
at least once for someone loved
at least once for something above this
months between kisses and touch
disaster insane in feelings strained
embroiled in battle of maybe this time
this one time for me, just me alone with another

take care that your eyes fall for a moment
at least for a moment on something soft
something warm and moist and totally yours
the smell of the breath making love with yours
the fear of death made distant and unclear
nothing of dark brave enough to come near
you in your palace and like royalty adored

dear friend, clench your chest resigned
do not run, do not hide but accept that you've died
a hundred thousand moments gone by
and you in your dim landscape of time
desperate for clean air and someone there
before you disappear and are no longer distinct
part and parcel of everything once feared

did you not forget to see?
at least once you've forgotten to see
now aged and bitter and foolishly down
lost in years of laughter and sleep
one day wrinkled, unable to keep your own fluid
from passing you by and ruining your side
if only you had paid more attention to life

do try to find something of faith
you must have faith! in one thing or many
in god or man or mind or time
in life or death or something to hold in esteem
or slip away through the space unseen
without meaning, untended and still born
a death begun long before it visits your door

dear god, make the loneliness fade away
provide answers, provide lovers to pass the days
do not banish my soul to cold sheets
alone in the night to dream of what might
but has not yet come and may never
fused inbetween two souls together
who among us can be patient forever...