STEPS

STEPS

the Lord loves

doesn't command

he doesn't need to

to hear a command

to search for lie

to search for the evil one

order is not command

truth is not command

strength is not command

love is order

love is truth

love is strength

you can lie in a command

and cannot in love

in your freewill you can search

in love you find

love is the command

that you don’t have to search

that you can hear

above the noise of a lie

come to love

find strength

live in love

know truth

find the steps

and the order they fall

in not command

in a search

in love hear

how the Lord loves

A. MENDOZA, November 2018

STEPS

STEPS

the Lord loves

doesn't command

he doesn't need to

to hear a command

to search for lie

to search for the evil one

order is not command

truth is not command

strength is not command

love is order

love is truth

love is strength

you can lie in a command

and cannot in love

in your freewill you can search

in love you find

love is the command

that you don’t have to search

that you can hear

above the noise of a lie

come to love

find strength

live in love

know truth

find the steps

and the order they fall

in not command

in a search

in love hear

how the Lord loves

A. MENDOZA, November 2018

a page

The page and I exchange places

an allegory of a dream

twinned mirrors

ordinal directions

coordinating a dance

as gentle as matched silks

fragrant as honeysuckle

a floating scent

rippling across the breeze

ordinal mirrors

a dream dance

a page

exchanging places

to match the silks

twinned mirrors

fragrant dreams

of ordinal directions

the allegory of a page

that exchange places

in the self

twinned mirrors

A. MENDOZA, 11-5-2018

a page

The page and I exchange places

an allegory of a dream

twinned mirrors

ordinal directions

coordinating a dance

as gentle as matched silks

fragrant as honeysuckle

a floating scent

rippling across the breeze

ordinal mirrors

a dream dance

a page

exchanging places

to match the silks

twinned mirrors

fragrant dreams

of ordinal directions

the allegory of a page

that exchange places

in the self

twinned mirrors

A. MENDOZA, 11-5-2018

1:48 AM

 October  Desert

the music

the rhythm

the movement

the time

there is so much of

thinking in a dream

therapy for the sleep

alive in a world

fortunate

by the Lord’s grace

in love received

sentenced

to witness only what is seen

aware

to the whole

of a part

thinking in a dream

therapy for the sleep

moving to sound

dancing with joy

walking along

as a floating breeze

in the chill of autumn

there is so much of

received movement

and fortunate

music

rhythm in the time

as love received

alive in the world

the sentence

A. MENDOZA, OCTOBER 2018

1:48 AM

 October  Desert

the music

the rhythm

the movement

the time

there is so much of

thinking in a dream

therapy for the sleep

alive in a world

fortunate

by the Lord’s grace

in love received

sentenced

to witness only what is seen

aware

to the whole

of a part

thinking in a dream

therapy for the sleep

moving to sound

dancing with joy

walking along

as a floating breeze

in the chill of autumn

there is so much of

received movement

and fortunate

music

rhythm in the time

as love received

alive in the world

the sentence

A. MENDOZA, OCTOBER 2018

FATIGUE

IN AN EVENING FATIGUE

a motion escapes

like an ember

red hot and smokeless

that glow fading

to red from white

the single light 

before darkness

touch a be burnt

breath and relight

listening to that smoking

the evidence and an escape

and the from the ember 

motion before darkness

breath and touch

and inhale the smoking evidence

of the escape

a dancing light

 a glowing touch

a glow moving

from red to white

before the darkness

evading sound

a glow 

a light

an escape

a motion

an ember

the only light

smokeless

against the darkness

to touch and relight

with breath

finding evidence

that is the sound 

before darkness

spread as a vision

noticed

the embers dance

A. Mendoza, 10/2018

FATIGUE

IN AN EVENING FATIGUE

a motion escapes

like an ember

red hot and smokeless

that glow fading

to red from white

the single light 

before darkness

touch a be burnt

breath and relight

listening to that smoking

the evidence and an escape

and the from the ember 

motion before darkness

breath and touch

and inhale the smoking evidence

of the escape

a dancing light

 a glowing touch

a glow moving

from red to white

before the darkness

evading sound

a glow 

a light

an escape

a motion

an ember

the only light

smokeless

against the darkness

to touch and relight

with breath

finding evidence

that is the sound 

before darkness

spread as a vision

noticed

the embers dance

A. Mendoza, 10/2018

UNFOLDING A DIAMOND

UNFOLDING A DIAMOND

To dream

to sleep

to seek a question

not for an answer

an explanation

folding the layer

to awaken a diamond

not for a place

as a thing held

that eternal witness

that opening dream

that unfolding diamond

that explaining question

presenting as witness

a whisper, a dream as place

that question

as answer

that unfolded diamond

a dream

a whisper

a sleep folded

a question

upheld as witness

in the place

of answer

true explanation

in a diamond

A. Mendoza, 10/6/2018

UNFOLDING A DIAMOND

UNFOLDING A DIAMOND

To dream

to sleep

to seek a question

not for an answer

an explanation

folding the layer

to awaken a diamond

not for a place

as a thing held

that eternal witness

that opening dream

that unfolding diamond

that explaining question

presenting as witness

a whisper, a dream as place

that question

as answer

that unfolded diamond

a dream

a whisper

a sleep folded

a question

upheld as witness

in the place

of answer

true explanation

in a diamond

A. Mendoza, 10/6/2018