SMASHED SAINT

truth sets free: a blog

Still (a song)

for apa though the world be shaking and my heart be breaking i’ll still still believe in You though these walls are closing in and my soul be imprisoned in solitary, i’ll still still believe in You when my eyes begin to fail me and my mind tries to go blind with the pain of feeling…

April 16, 2011
The Scientist & the Seer

for Uncle Walter* There are moments of simple wonder when I believe That constellations can be contained inside our eyes, That comets can wrap around our brows like ribbon And fly out our mouths like laughter, There are moments of verdant courage when I believe That nobility and knighthood can never die, That death cannot…

April 8, 2011
Naptime

it’s fun napping in the sun, a blanket my dreams, a pillow

April 6, 2011
Bones and DNA, pt. 1

I hold my breath to have you so near Don’t want to lose this moment It’s like holding sapphire inside my lungs Then I remember you are always here Always near, even if I let out this Breath, you are closer clear closer So I breathe you in, I breathe you out And all around…

April 5, 2011
Revolution Is

i want to believe. to know like i know my name and fist that it’s possible to change. to change the structure, the culture, the apparatus, the skeleton, the bones, the systems, the processes, the highways that get us from here to there, that invisibly determine this or that and make one rise and the…

March 28, 2011
the reason why i do the things i do

you’ve carved my heart with love engraved your fingerprints onto my breath soaked your sweetness into my skin; and every movement, every thought is captivated you exude everything i am and do together let’s discover all the ways the world can grab your beauty, your truth, your words; the reality of your fiery eyes can…

March 28, 2011
falling in love

falling in love is not just for lovers of the honeymoon kind, the high school sweethearts or courting kings and queens kind– but we can fall into love with all of us: the way five crowd a sidewalk street on a sunny day, or sit in an unworthy cafe just to bask in…

March 21, 2011
the eyes

they cannot lie when you look down, away to the side, avoiding mine they cannot lie when you look straight, an arrow ablaze, lit, unfurling to mine they tell a story tragic or beautiful and i can fall in love or walk the other way because blindness was never my lot

March 21, 2011
Sometimes

Sometimes I’m loud Sometimes I’m quiet Sometimes I’m the night A laughing disco ball spinning With glittering funk soul sistahs Sometimes I’m the dawn An expansive flight of light Sweetly soaking the tired night

February 20, 2011
Keep Me

If I begin to morph and mutate Into a conglomeration and collage Of all the things I never wanted to be– A ball of Emo hiding in a back alley A slicing scream secluded in a silver haze A swerving erratic line of up and down– Remind me again to breathe you in, Drink in…

February 18, 2011