Is Heaven Really Real?

The big flaw in being human is being human

That's why the idea of heaven is so seductive

I would like to float up

And find slouching armies of lovers

For different moods

Motorcycle men, slick and rough in leather

To bruise my lips with kisses

Slender aesthetes full of poems

To murmur of love and sky and heather

Witty men, chefs, philosophers, musicians

I would drift from love to love

O paradise above

The big flaw in being human is being human

We plant our feet on mother earth

Be all things for me, we shout

And nose to nose we slowly burn out

Heaven, please be real, place of bliss

For something here is so amiss.

When Anything Can Happen

Young lion, spirits running free

You are the nth of cool

Beautiful hooded mystery man

Tie your shoes and walk, like Moses

Through parted waters

Where girls with mermaid hair

Sing

They say there's scientific folklore

Winds blew across the Red Sea

Exposing a swath of sea floor

But no, I say

The sea will part

For young men confident as lions

The sea will part

The sea will part

And so will girls, sweetheart.

Keep Me Close

Baby

When you came into this world

It was your eyes, your eyes

That mother-child look, that gaze

You know

I dare you to find that gaze elsewhere

Grown-ups cannot dissolve their walls

Put down their bows and arrows

Drop their egos

We try

But baby, I can dive into your eyes and swim around

Your eyes, your eyes, have me spellbound.