Poetry – Page 264 – Carl Setzer: Word Shaper

Seek love

Cower not, fearful of love.
Rejection’s burn isn’t so brutal
As to remain empty of love’s
Brilliant warmth.

Always seek the sun
Sunlight through the clouds
Longing to be found.

Into myself I dive
Collapsing my life
Into a single
Moment, everything
Becomes clear, but then
Fades beyond my grasp.

Love’s immensity
Reaches beyond the body
Dancing on sunlight

Like something
Jane Austen would’ve wrote,

Dancing around edges,
Flickering, flirting, motion,
Seducing me, drawing me
Closer than I should;

Then I would dare if I were
Rational. But that mind
Sleeps on the edge of
Where darkness meets
Light.

One must be cautious
If you choose to play with fire,
Is your heart the fuel?

I seek the oblivion
Of knowledge

Within the finite emptiness
Between yin and yang
Exists everything,
I long for.

I won’t seek to tame.
If anything, it’s your
Flame that appeals
Burning bright against
Dawn’s light. Glorious
Destruction.

Plato’s cave reverberates
My eyes adjust to the light.

Amazing to me
The transference of worry
To another’s child.

Love’s ability to move
Intertwining deep within
Joyfulness abounds.

Experiences
Flowing downwards to my soul
Freedom blossoms forth.

Clouds eating sunlight
Gray brightening in the morn
Life passing quickly