John Three Nineteen

And this is the judgment:
that the light has come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds
were evil.

The Other Lover

Pretending to love you, shamelessly, like a brother

your skin, bronzed by the heat of Mother

Earth who created you in her reflection, like no other

you pull me into your world, with force softer than a feather

of a dove in flight, my adoration soars the open skies; together

we end original sin and feed temptation, together

we enjoy the fruits of sin and rename love, together

we plant the seeds of our love in the earth, together

the seeds birth white lilies across the fields of the mother-

land; Nature fights my resistance of loving another

Lover birthed from the soil that was meant to support no other

feet but my own.