I See You In Colors (Paul Matsumoto)

I am pretending you did not exist.
Ink nightly washes black
over my consciousness
and abandons me as morning seaweed
upon a foreign beach.

I am pretending we were simply
the sparkling imagination of some higher being,
our life together set below a singular epic sky
unrepeated
in future histories.

I am pretending I cannot taste you
each day as I do the sea air in my breath
when I am running,
my heart tied upon one foot, 
ancient melancholy tied upon the other,
anxiously racing, 
madly racing through lifetimes,
to find our brightened souls.

I see you in colors that don't exist.

It is all that I see clearly.
and why I run.

I Want To Be With Her (Paul Matsumoto)

I want to be with her 
who knows secret things 
secrets that hang precariously like drops 
of honey from her lips 
falling through space and 
ringing like tiny bells that only 
she 
can 
hear 


I want to be with her 
who splits the sea breezes 
with excited horses 
and waves lapping the soothed sand 
as 
I savor the saltwater 
off her skin 
inch 
by 
inch 


I want to be with her 
as the universe awakens 
electric 
where you are the first morning 
and nothing in the world 
is 
usual 
today 

You Were Gold (Paul Matsumoto)

You were gold
I was silver

We drank moonlight
from rooftops
in drunken glee
and kissed with
the taste of promise

We were
light chasing light
over evening wave tips
I've inhaled your sky
and sand and water as

I walked into your ocean
and failed to walk out.

The Secret Language of Angels (Paul Matsumoto)

"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été."

("In the depths of winter, I discovered there was in me an invincible summer")

-Albert Camus

You moved in me

at first as one cell in my heart that vibrated
to a distant tuning fork an infinity away
then as my heart whole gave way as a symphony
eternal,
as waves upon the waiting shore,
you sang within me

We inhaled the secret language of angels
and leapt from the edge of the world
into the spinning darkness
clutching tightly to each other
knowing we were the wings that
would never land 

We embraced with human arms made of light
and became the torch
that set fire to the stars
and gave greatness to the skies

Darlin',
you and I,
we always both knew
we were never a random
fate