After All (video)
After All (audio)
After All
Do you not know
How much
I love you
Dry sun
glow begins
Green leaves move
stutter
Sun’s spheres ripple the soul
Through the centre
Afterglow
So sweet
like love
Like herbs and spice
and black space
Pure white clover
green waist-long grass
Purple thistles
and raspberry nipples
Yellow daisies green as life
Crawling creatures to dry death
Crowns of flowers
and poppies red
Sweet sweet-red
Bird songs
in the hot air
Then a breeze
release plumes
The crickets sing for love
before you die
After all
Then a storm comes
– Ephraim Hylton
Picasso (audio)
Picasso
There is a Picasso
of you and I
in a grey studied room
black straw seated chair
white covered bed
you in white top
and dress of red
and I
in black
kissing you
as if life
depended on that
alone
your breath my breath
your kiss
no walls
could define
– Ephraim Hylton
Morning (audio)
Morning
You took the cloak
Off the night
And the morning
Was naked
To face the light
Though scared
I knew something
Sacred
Like lightning
Filled dreams
I felt awakened
And all the fears
Erased before me
Forged again
A new promise
As diamond dimensions
That just saw
the sparkle colors
Of blue and red
And gold brilliance
And the most wanted
Peace
A hush a glow
For the One and only
A dream becomes me
As white shasta daisies
And purple dame rockets
Into a beautiful blue sky
Do you know love
Show me
Tell me of the morning
of inflamed emotions
As a heart floating
Outside itself
My mind altered
You carry the night
In your eyes
The moon and stars
In your hand
Sun rising within you
Hot danger
Like exulted Love
Nothing scares me
Yet I find my heart
Fleeing like a dew
Red flags flutter
My inner world at war
How I desire you
– Ephraim Hylton
Very Life
Love
in abundance
For love
Is forever
Love is the very life
For I am
Because you are
Your Grace
As sprinkles of spring
Upon the breath
A need to need
Clear and fresh
Scented and sweet
I thirst
I thirst
for you
As a man
In the desert
of time
Seeking the well
of peace
and Love
– Ephraim Hylton