Catch me while I'm sleeping

Catch me while I'm sleeping
Whisper to my dreams
and hold me like you'll never see me again

Warm day
cold nights
like deserts missing rain
teardrops on the pillow

Forever lost in your
dark magic eyes
soothing heaven tones
with the bottoming of your voice

We must have been
soulmates
lifetimes ago
Grains of sand
helping build Egypt's great
monuments
Feathers in Pocahontas'
headband
Stars side by side
in a view only Galileo could see

There's some part of you
written into my DNA
like no lipstick needed
red stain on my lips
The way the brown of my eyes
matched your perfect complexion

Though you are light years away
not even part of this reality
I can still feel you move through me
Astral plane intertwined

So catch me while I'm sleeping
sing your song to my dreams
and hold my hand
as we dance through the cosmos
eternally

Bottled Messages

I'm in love with a world I have never met
Traitor to my city
and even my mistress golden state

Longing to get lost in foreign dialect
Travel to the places
that caused me to turn pages

There are hidden masterpieces
by artists well and little known
that my soul wishes to soak up

Music of other cultures
that cross universal divides
and make my body move

Streets that hold more history
than any classroom can teach
call for me to explore them

There are beaches with waves that have yet to lap at my ankles
and sand yet to burn my soles
Where I will wish for bottled messages in romance languages

My knees have yet to bruise
on temple floors
while I have a private conversation with God

I was born into a city
housing samples of the world within its streets
A prerequisite to my ultimate dream
of finding who I am
by being lost in the world

Sad Clouds

I see pain painted
As clouds on the azure sky
I hear mothers sob
As bombs drop and sons die
And the worst deaths aren't physical
It's when your boy returns home
And you know he's no longer whole
He left part of his soul
On the battle field
In desert sands
Or in the bullet
In the body
Of another mothers son
Who sobs into her hands
Hands she once used for safe return prayers
Are only good now for catching tears
They fall like raindrops
From sad clouds