Karisma

I am drying up in the middle of this rainstorm

I am separated from this life

I am unhappily disconnected

People are burning

And Christmas came and went

Worlds fell apart

And New Year came and went

So I can’t quite cry

I needlessly wagered on tradition

She didn’t feel the same way

For twenty more minutes

I danced to music I hated

With people I didn’t know

And in my mind

I thought of sitting on the ledge

Where eagles hang in the hot air

And the silent, cool freedom

And I came home

To long to never speak again

I am captured

This is a kaleidoscope of Karisma

Collapsed plans

That soda water

And the cold floors

Only the forgetful were successful

What success have I forgotten?

Your own path is steeped in altitude

And in sickness

It once led from the cities to the hills

Then to mountains and on to the sky

Soon I will wade through the lakes

And from the water serpents

I will take a heavy kind of jewel

And become a little more than a small memory

So live in the knife-edge

Beautiful and quiet

And live for the wild.

Ocean Crossers

The greatest days of my life

Were spent elated

In the realisation of love

It was an adventure begun alone

Inevitably shared

Knowing you are gone

And knowing pain would follow

Completes cliches outside competing hearts

Beating fast hearing foreign stories

This is my new future

This was not foreseen

With the best memories fresh in my mind

I am now an aimless body

I don’t know what to think anymore

What is the point here again?

I feel like I found something far more important

Far, far more important

Someone the same

A quiet consolation

And whilst it is surely a question of when not whether

Meeting again is a matter of painful patience

So waiting is the balancing price

Patience played off against pride

My perspectives are altered again

Know what is best though

Push on, for if not dead before

It will be all the more worth it

Trust in time

This is impermanence

This is change

This is the way this wonderful world works

Before those days you never knew

Now rest assured in the knowledge

That you know her

And that in time

Love will really find a way.

Any choice is a wise one

Without concern for honour

I love freedom.

So here I am

In a new room

Encouraging freedom.

You must be free

You are a smiling and free human being

What a fantastic life

If I could see through your eyes

I would be viewing happiness

So be free!

If love
Then free

If in love

Then share brilliant freedom!

Coping with change

Naked claims

Highest heights

Direct messages and meanings

Coarse phone lines

Grins and smiles

Laughter and memories

Dusty air

Coping with change.

Kala Ratri

To speak bluntly

I know love.

From now on I know love

It really is as great as history tells!

So to speak bluntly

I am utterly in love.

I love you

I want to marry you

I want to have children with you

I want to laugh and kiss and celebrate

No doubt there is duhkha ever present

But with right approach, happiness can be all-encompassing

So surely we have found our right approach

Our skillful means

Our middle way.

We are equal and happy

We are sure

Sometimes stoic

Sometimes passionate

We are sure who we are

And what we want.

But now we are in the hands of time

That ever-present force

She will drive forward relentlessly.

So this is our night of time

What will happen when morning comes?

Will she keep us together?

You know I am hoping

Jm$-#m-,$-;-

Shes returning to the states.

So

Sure enough

How can you not love the woman of love?

This I have learned

With knowledge and expression of self-identity

One day we will stand shoulder to shoulder

Freely in love.

Yarke Dawa Nyis (Summer’s Two Months)

What did you ever want from love?

Whatever and whenever

Soon enough we will be saying goodbye

Once again goodbye to love

But from the moment I woke up

Under the cold of the fan

I knew you were the girl

Tsamling gi tsangma

Nga la khyering cigpo kapo yod
Danda yod ma red na
Dagarang nyima cig
Nga nyis sems cig chag gi red

Sems gi nang la shes gi yod

Yinayang des dus bar du

Je la jeyong.