'Four' by Ravyn LaRue

Unfathomable summer sweetness
I sat like a giant child
On an enormous swing
As a beloved boy pushed
And jumped on beside me
He cuddled close in his affectionate way
And I felt secure in my soul beside him
As we glided through the air
Like overgrown children
Without any worries
As we looked upon the sun that set above us

'Three' by Ravyn LaRue

Isolated near the edge of the park
I swung facing towards him
As he stayed in place
Dragging his shoes in the pea-rocks
I tried comforting him
Yet I knew his place in my heart kept shrinking
He said
You wouldn’t understand
Since you’re successful
I asked why
To which he said
Because you’re happy
I chose not to keep on faking a frown like his
Since after all he was right

'Hibiscus’ Message' by Ravyn LaRue

He held the carnations tight
between his index finger and thumb
And he rooted it safely
within the barrel of the gun

He returned its stem
to mineral-made gunpowder from which it once grew
In hopes of preserving
the spirit of what is true

The sergeant uprooted a flower from his gun
But the message had been sent
All our good had been done

The gunman’s soul had already been saved
Since it’s better planting flowers there
than on our own children’s graves

Hibiscus’ message
had already been preached
And their ironclad hearts
had already been reached

'Come Hear The Music Play II' by Ravyn LaRue

I want my final days
to be a finale
I can see no other way
since no matter how sad
and how hard it may be
to get up from one’s seat and applaud
when the beauty life has
overcomes and drowns you in its aura
I will have no other choice

The music will swell
and slither it’s place into my heart
and I’ll feel compelled
to rise up all at once
and join those I love
who once were far from me onstage
and now are weaving their way
through the audience
to find me

They’ll take my hand and say
“I’m so glad you could make it”
and I’d say
“Yeah, me too”
And we’ll hug and kiss
and reminisce
and speak of all the wonderful things that happened
while the show lasted

'Came Back Wrong' by Ravyn LaRue

I feel like
for a while
I was a ‘Came Back Wrong’ plot
but I have a character arch
so I think I’m thankfully getting better
UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE I KNOW

'The One Who Loves You' by Ravyn LaRue

You feel like home to me
and I don’t know how to explain it
but you do
there’s a piece of my heart
that evidently got left with you
(regardless of whether or not you noticed)
I left almost all the pieces here when I left
I just didn’t realize until halfway through
but I realized
and when that happened
it hurt hard
and for some reason
(the home-ness probably)
I got this notion that you could heal me
but I need to heal myself
I know this
I’m a grown up and I cannot rely on others for my agency
yet connection is what I’m about
and connection is what you’re about
and I love you for many reasons
but the compatibility
of you and I’s soul-speak is certainly something
even if you don’t understand my poems always
and even when I’m ten steps behind you
you somehow feel like home to me
and believe me
that means the more than the entire cosmos

'The Artist Is Present' by Ravyn LaRue

Hero has Abramovic eyes
or perhaps
Abramovic has Hero eyes