Just Like

I’ve lost you.

Everything you stood for.

I opened up my heart to you.

Completely, my door was open forever.

I was innocent. I was available. I was yours.

Wednesday.

You toppled my everything.

With a divine thrust of misguided trust.

You deceived me, placed a black widow down my throat.

You drenched me in gasoline, you lit me on fire.

I am poisoned from the inside.

You commanded.

My veins and arteries wrapped around you like unearthed roots.

Like a parasite you sucked me dry of anything I had left.

I could not hurt more.

My eyes cannot produce any more tears.

You killed my heart.

You killed my love.

It’s just like suicide.

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.10.16.20:39:36@130BKLYN

Coming Of

I’ve never had a black guy suck my cock.

So, the first time, obviously I was very excited.

I must say, they are right when they say,

“Once you go black, you never go back!”

The black guy was so good.

Maybe it’s because his lips were bigger than

Most white guy’s lips

Or maybe because his cock was so big,

He knew how to handle mine.

I don’t really know.

All I do know, is that -

He was an awesome great cock sucker!

That black guy.

What a cock sucker!

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.10.15.17:13:03@130BKLYN

Heart On Fire

I fall to the earth in a pile of ash

Rivers wash away my unspeakable sins

Bathed in ancestry

Collected by competing skies

Her gown unravels before me

Torn from her knee to her thigh

Thick ivory skin exposed

Liar accused

Functioning on my stimulus

Automatically I respond

Realities forgiven

I secrete, I stimulate

Poison has made us frozen

Steps no longer leave footprints

Tongue twisted in sentences of hunger

Eyes are blind to fidelity

Worn down the flames

Mask my long

Damper my ache

Close my barrier

Opportunity apologizes

Desert becomes memory

She was forged

Shadows no longer speak

Valediction claimed

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.10.14.12:24:30@130Brooklyn

Wyeth’s

For a moment,

You are my world

Your rose lips meeting mine

Your blues capturing mine

Your scent swallowing me whole

Your hands touching mine

Your hair draped over my shoulder

Your legs crossing mine

No creature can compare

No monarch butterfly, no speckled humming bird

No sunlight or glowing moon

No ocean wave, no afternoon breeze

I see the beauty in your heart

And I must confess

Before statues of angels

Before witnesses of reverence

I am eager to know more

It is my deepest truth

My amorous intent

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.10.13.15:45:16@130Brooklyn

If I Asked

If I asked you to kill me, would you?

If I asked you to marry me, would you?

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.08.09.21:16:49@130BKLYN

Nothing Keeps

It never remains the same

There is no reason

Everything changes

Seasons, people, objects

Things move, grow, morph

Things are removed, replaced, reconstructed

Skies are grey, blue, orange

Trees are different

Everything is always old

Or new

Bought, sold, borrowed, stolen

Liberty given, taken

Found with pleasure, neglect

You are my metropolis

My industrial animals

My man-made horizon

My falling freedom

Here, oh here

Nothing keeps

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.09.20.15:36:00@EastRiverNYCQ

Where Is The Beer? The Beer Is On The Shoe.

Wine spills

Guinness follows

She bends

I witness her cleavage

Her smile and pierced chin

Shoes wet

Table chips

Fisherman sits

Walking by

Stumble beneath

Second round

Euros spent

No hires meant

Stocking stuffer

Purple melting

Mind loss

Your host lost

Secret stealth

Twice occupied

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.09.12.12:47:00@FCORome

Where Is Argentina?

I’m positive

Between your well-worn shoes

Cobble stone streets

Armor guarded chapels

Broken stains

I’m a descendent

Waking up to your

Holy neons and pointing nuns

Priests dub a new track

They close the shutters

She passes by in multiples

Together bare

In every hue and shade

Youthful fountains everywhere

Straddle your motor

Midnight speed

Frozen, I kiss the city

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.09.10.18:57:00@PantheonRome

Pantheon Drip

Drip, drip, drip

I see your hot pink drip

Pigeon goes,

Pigeon flies

I hear a river flowing

Drip, drip, drip

Blonde bird

Brunette bird

Red bird

Bloom

White man

Helmet man

Suit man

Gone!

Drip, drip, drip

Alone

Drip, drip, drip

Dry

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.09.09.13:41:00@PantheonRome

Beautiful Suckers

Drying you of everything

Dripping deserts clean

Rivers of stone

Taunting, they lure

Dirty thieves

American Express

Photographic ecstasy

It’s all a scam

A triple lie

Definitive threat

Human degradation

Tactical war game

Missile defense lost

Surface charge

Almost at crest

Beautiful,

I am no sucker

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.09.07.19:58:00@PiazzaDelRisorgimentoRome

The Berliner Girls

Taken my nationality

Removed my cloak

Declare - I am circumcised!

Buy your shoes

     And say -

          Goodbye!

Unpack your goods

Stand by a tree

Extra large

U8, you ate!

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.09.07.11:43:00@BerlinMunichFLT#234

What Good Is Light For?

I need the dampness

I need the cream

I need her orange scarf

I need his dream

No flying darkness

No shining light

No wedding bed

No rocky bite

I need the prowling

I need the steak/stake

I need her skin

I need his passing ache

No Greek goddess

No night lullaby

No fee reason

No blood dye

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.09.07.11:30:00@BerlinMunichFLT#234

Polish Electricity

I was feeling faint

Weak, fragile and unreal

I was about to collapse

Decompose and fall apart

The end came

Before the start

Old age lines

Spread like disease

Chanting languages

Movements understood

September thunderstorms

Bolts break open the sky

Sitting behind desks

Crossing legs

Misplaced elastic

Spell check

Couple of donuts

Four pack hold

Didn’t get named

Watergate laughter

Burned inside

Dozen times

Multiplicity

Electricity!

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.09.05.19:25:00@SchlesischeBerlin

Aley Steak

Dozens of cows lined the street

One by one they are selected for slaughter

Sitting down at the dining table

I have my knife

I have my fork

I cut - I eat your steak.

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.09.05.09:38:00@A8BERLIN10117

At The Albrechtshof

Move in over river Spree

Spread like smooth butter

Memories of paintings glow

Upon steps of heritage

I take you hand in hand

A waltz on a train

I don’t even know your name

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.09.05.09:35:00@A8BERLIN10117

Mistaken Love

Remembering you draped in shades of red

I stand tall, I stand straight

Down hills, sloped, hard, rocky

I bend, I step, I climb, I fall

You hit me with your rattle

Up again, hit once more

Step after step, I get to the top

And spiral downwards

Helpless, you occupy my heart entirely

Your whispers enchant my dreams

I tumble, I stall, I halt

Crying in the corner

I peer out, I watch the others

They dance around the fire

Touching, reaching high

Stars light the night sky

She closed the door

I realize now what I need

I knock and follow the path once more

Nothing in sight, signs point in directions

My hair turns grey, white

The lure holds me near

I kiss her wet lips

Shattered, I’m awake

Awake

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.09.01.09:50:35@AleyLebanon_Koury

I Always Hear People, But I Never See People

Hearing their language

Through mosquito weaves

Wicker beds

And falling paint

A cloud surrounds my existence

Damp, I listen once more

Electricity hum

Beyrouth Traffic

I don’t see them, I only hear them

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.08.31.12:31:39@AleyVillaLebanon

Eight Hours

She lives

I don’t know where

She sleeps tonight

Beating drum sounds

Calling sons and daughters

Down aisles true

Beneath footsteps

Imprinted moments

Atlantic dusk, Mediterranean dawn

Night shadows descend

Her smile infiltrates my mind

Her eyes penetrate my soul

She sings my song

I hear her wings

I hear her fall

Just eight is what it took

A kiss, a little touch

A forever memory

A forever love

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.08.23.23:33:00@AleyLebanon

There Are More Clouds In The Sky Today Than Yesterday

Losing my friends, losing my love

Like before, I look right - I look left

I smash the glass, I yell, “Father! I am sick!”

The glass breaks, the glass falls, the glass, everywhere glass

So, love opens up

Love opens the door

Ajar forever, he is the clock, she is the wind

Swimming in this ocean

Decisions are tripled

You thought I would never phone you

You thought I turned away and would never look back

Thorns and needles, stones and rocks, burnt ashes and broken glass

The world collapses around us

Magnified magnificent - the world pauses

Clouds parting, I’m in the air now

Fire is burning, flowers are blooming

She escapes through my fingers

The last strand of hair floats away forever

Dancing across the sky

She is the star in my heart that keeps me alive

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.08.12.11:23:35@130BKLYN

Stopping Love

I stop time.

I stop the earth’s rotation.

I stop the clouds moving across the skyline.

I stop the clock rotating.

I stop the birds in flight.

I stop the flower growing.

I stop the river flowing.

I stop the volcano erupting.

I stop the tear crying.

I stop the ladybug crawling.

I stop the enemies fighting.

I stop the bombs dropping.

I stop the dew forming.

I stop the rain falling.

I stop the race beginning.

I stop the heart beating.

I stop the light shining.

I stop the sun setting.

I stop the wind blowing.

I stop the music playing.

I stop the painter painting.

I stop the singer singing.

I love to stop.

I stop to love.

© 2008 David Greg Harth

08.07.25.13:20:23@130BKLYN