Vulnerability

You make me want to sing songs of hope
And put a shiny bullet in my head.
Do I love you? Do I know you?

I hate that I love you irrevocably.
I adore you, and nothing in this world
Scares me more than that.

I may stand tall before the world,
But before you I am a child:
Vulnerable, weak, transparent.

- c. noel
7.20.13

For R. M.

This winter's night a star is shining
Where no light had shone before,
Against the clouds a silver lining
Burning brightly evermore.

- c. noel 12-18/19-15

Dismantled

at sight of you, sound of you

awaken dormant rebel fires,

dissident flames from immortal coals

resolve dissolves

lost in tides of ocean-eyes

eroding levees erstwhile laid

I am overwhelmed, overcome

heart dismantled in an instant

and how am I to reconstruct?

-- c. noel

Missive

I opened up your wordless letter

Written silence, sealed and sent

For hours I only sat and wondered

What your empty missive meant

-- c. noel (2010)

It Came With Age

Beneath these endless stormy clouds
The shadows veil and fog enshrouds
The remnant of the hope of youth
Which perished in the quest for truth.

-- c. noel

Relapse

I dared to stare so deep into
     ocean-eyes so crystal blue;

now silenced love I buried deep
     screams in dreams of troubled sleep.


-- c. noel

The Fool

The Fool survives on naught but luck;

Most always, it's a waste of time

To reason with a man like this - 

Just let him wallow in the muck

Of foolishness, for all the grime

Of ignorance, to him, is bliss.

-- c.noel