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    in eyelids, imagined (yes, i feel him, believe him)



    snow falls on eyelids
    imaginary insides
    where, in this land,
    a safe place to hide,
    in the arms of another,
    beast of beautiful,
    without the knife,
    come to die

    just a little bit
    and a bit more
    "deep breath"
    skin on skin
    delicate droplets of sweat
    no worry, rip yourself apart
    wondering, fearing
    what comes next

    just peace,
    sweet release
    if this moment is all we have
    why do we waste it with games,
    mind, reaped wrath

    because we do not know ourselves
    as much as we play, pretend
    to, and do
    because we bleed our "self involved"
    onto others, with little thought, hindsight
    exactly what we leave behind,
    once through

    survival of the fittest
    but who defined "the fit", first place?
    snow falls on eyelids, imagined
    as i awaken to your absence
    you were never really here or there
    just a mesmerizing mirage
    of manhood, betrayed
    and so the bleed, this removal
    tragic

    yet somehow
    in eyelids, snowfall
    shines, sunset
    and i smile, your smile
    returns again,
    you were always here
    and never left...within.

    begin.
    again.

    ("it's all gonna work out, man"
    and it is here,
    in his whisper, i somehow believe him,
    beyond the wanting wonder of when)


    bowen hart roselli
    16 may 2020
    ringwald love
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    surface swimming, sadly (amongst the illuminance of a love, made in magically)



    "surface swimming, sadly", she said..
    as she tended to the wounds,
    psychological, his head...

    he, not like any ordinary man
    something he struggled with,
    all "the within", take a stand

    acutely aware, this game,
    in illuminate
    betray one another
    "falling victim", the material state

    how we betray the nectar,
    for "the numb"
    distillation of depth
    for the deifying of dumb

    "the average, the obvious",
    we succumb
    as if no other option
    to be allowed, bathe the sun

    soak it into our core, our being
    rapturously righted, our sight
    inner "seeing"

    so we settle
    and surrender
    in order, "fit in"
    the inner "patrick bateman",
    for some of us
    our paradoxical sin

    that while we know
    there is so much more
    we surface swim, sadly
    necessity, "open doors"...

    that we know, we really just wish,
    could walk past
    so little here of sustenance
    the succulence of sensual
    most can't feel, unaware,
    devoured, en masse

    quantities
    that don't demand of the intricate
    and so he accepts, and rejects
    molecular dissonance

    all man made,
    these constructs of casual
    as the "acceptable" state,
    the latest frothing, "fashionable"..

    but life, and love, in its "real",
    not cliche
    as something within him, repulsed
    walks away...

    then contradicts his true self
    for the crowd
    and returns to them
    once more, while knowing inside,
    they cannot see him, his "proud"..

    attempts to lead them
    somewhere, more mysterious
    more magical, meaningful
    as if he, only hearing this...

    yes, it is possible, to transform,
    "only knew",
    as in, "if they", could listen
    see the signs, touch the truth

    yet he knows, most can't
    so he self betrays, he, then swallowed
    by his sense, obligation
    the wants and wanderings,
    hearts wallowed

    in their wants, their needs
    who they demand, he then be
    "invisible-ized", again
    he somehow, convinced, "true self"
    must recede...

    to the background, the shadows
    and be the light they need him to be
    as his darkness, it seeps into "her"
    the one, the unexpected, found he

    in a space and time, quite strange,
    quite magic
    he both embraces, rejects
    her understanding,
    his "tragic"..

    all the things that another
    "not supposed to love"
    in him, "she just did", and does
    no end, his mere presence upon her
    enough

    the embodiment realized
    and actualized, in her
    not a fabrication for
    the glean, guilt gestation

    just to let him be,
    all that he is
    how it excites, then does scare him
    as to run, said so said he,
    "gifts of man, numbed"...

    yet consistent is she,
    to his insistent inconsistent,
    fires, flees
    no rejection of him,
    no matter, scrawled in silence
    his "please be sick of me", plea's

    simply "always there",
    he, aware
    he captured her heart
    doesn't know what to do
    with her "bare"
    and so he runs, and so she walks
    in honor, his inherent
    immeasurable illuminant
    "can't forgets"....

    ....all the things, in soul silence,
    she knows
    that she hopes, one day
    calls him back to her, shows...

    not all, so surface swim, sadly
    not she,
    to the deep, in divine
    she awakened one day,
    to realize, hues of heaven, haunt he

    as do they her
    and so, all this concern, care
    born in worth,
    bound, this earth...

    of having lived, loved, lost
    enough, know the difference
    between something, someone
    "just more of the same"
    and some "one", something, unfathomable
    his electric, delicate, then demanding,
    "sweet incredible", engulfing

    illuminance

    (there is nothing wrong,
    "hand in glove",
    if somehow he could free himself,
    the "suspect" soul,
    the "expected of him" role
    let the heart rise above
    the "should" of surface swimming, sadly
    and just....be...truly loved)


    bowen hart roselli
    2 may 2020
    ringwald love
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    discernment (In a land of love, lacked integrity)



    the message from the messenger
    the undressing from the undressor, worth
    the player from the play, at hand
    the stand up, comic,
    from the stand up man

    the nectar from the nothingness
    the chaos camouflaged from confronting, this
    the intimate from intimacy, feigned
    the blameless from the externally blamed

    the lover from the loveless, heart
    the unwavering from the run away, art
    the act from the actor, playing a part
    the target from the targeted, dart

    the dodge and weave
    from the intention, deceive
    the believer from the can't be believed
    the "know themselves", from the
    "everyone else"
    who can't keep track, all the lies,
    told themselves

    just a sponge, a mirror, everyone else
    the chameleon ghost, pray, if before you
    he fell

    the charlatan from
    the scarred, deep within
    the devil from the divine, of the sin
    the liar from the lies, he's told
    the story from the teller, hold

    "the belief, seduce",
    from the convenient excuse,
    it's worth
    the manipulator from the man, re-birthed

    from the woman, good, wise, strong
    the "letting go" in the days, pained
    wronged

    the words and sentences,
    in "meant" versus meaningless
    the thief of hearts versus
    the heart, come forth, healing this

    all the moments perceived with magic
    when upon you
    was just a trap for the tragic
    games played out for the "grab, go"
    another
    as in taken because it was there,
    for the offering
    there is little "look back now"
    and even more, "why bothering"...

    not in a land where
    there are so many ways
    to get for the gain,
    so many ego's in pain

    because, we know
    we reject what is real
    and wonder why wounds
    they can never quite heal

    not when "the party"
    is all around, to partake
    not when a man presents himself deep,
    but is fake

    as in betraying all he claims to be
    the deepest cut, is the stripped
    awakening, deceived

    you were, it's just the blinded by love
    loving a man for whom nothing is enough
    to bind him to any fixed idea
    concept, who he is...

    this poem, for the golden, in the gift
    of the girl, named leah...

    in reflection, reality, it's important to see
    discernment, he is gone, for now
    but was he ever really here?
    or anywhere

    bleed....the need.

    to know, to show, to give him gifts
    to solve the mystery, his gorgeous,
    your wish...

    to find yourself, yes, truly found in him
    while the evidence suggests,
    the chances are slim...

    all it takes is a read, between lines
    discernment
    the taken from the take,
    took the time...

    to "back and forth", the flow you had
    honor it, respect it, covet it, glad
    to know it's rare, this kind of connect
    no need to bite the hand that feeds
    no thirst to "mind game" the love
    he seeks

    "discernment, darling"
    she whispered, in a dream
    "let go, it will show"..
    and maybe, just maybe, one day
    he will grow,
    into a man, of discernment
    and integrity,

    (your) love, owned...

    and honored
    no need to ruin, no run away
    escape, to roam..

    (come home)...

    discernment
    the art of looking within,
    letting, grow....

    (the walk away wonders, of whispers
    "walk with me", felt, lived, known...)


    bowen hart roselli
    9 may 2020
    ringwald love
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    walls and the wounded, come down (a safe place to surrender and drown)



    there is no pleasing
    those who can't be pleased
    there is only teasing,
    those who live for "the tease"

    as in taunt and provoke
    for the reaction they seek
    why is it to be vulnerable, of heart
    is always seen as pliable and weak

    manipulate,
    covers woman and man
    stand up, stand strong,
    stand "something",
    just stand

    as in take one, now
    or take a seat
    be destined for a life
    on perpetual repeat..

    mistakes, like maulings
    unheeded callings
    to walk, a different path,
    your own
    be care, the lustful longings,
    deep moans

    the crevices, cracks
    in your psycho-sexual pavement
    to crawl on all fours
    there is a high price, taxed payment

    taxing all your reserves, your energy
    you'd yes, sell your soul
    for "the one", psychic synergy

    that manifests magic,
    seeps madness, the same
    the tragedy, knowing it's out there
    and just maybe,
    even knowing his name

    no shame, no blame
    an end to the endless, infinite
    passive aggressive,
    "line reading" games

    as in reading between lines,
    are they there?
    unfortunate, the power games played
    always one left standing
    over another, stripped bare

    pathologies played out
    crossing boundaries, each others place
    amongst the sun, a sea of stars
    you'd give anything,
    his trusted face

    for whom real belong
    is no longer a matter of
    "pray, pine for, and long"
    it just is, found reality
    the gift, the gold
    in each other's arms,
    soul strong

    both seen, both actualized
    naked limbs and love soaked eyes
    this isn't an auction, for charity, prized
    no "highest bidder", for the bitter,
    despised

    this is the universe aligning
    and aligning, for good
    two hearts, not carved,
    not manufactured, of wood

    not fabricated for the forcing,
    another
    to play out pathologies
    predicated on the preying of others

    it seems we all are slaves
    to each others' misbegotten ways
    the lover loves
    and the player plays

    sick and saddened,
    slain by the game
    just deliver me, desire less
    then, if all "this" is about,
    the need to control, without soul
    and to maim, swells of shame

    reciprocation
    is right, like release
    of all the wrongs
    we've been wronged by,
    the sheets

    laid upon and laid down,
    for "the using",
    prettier, in the pink than the blue
    and black, of the mind fuck,
    the "capture/kill", bruising

    purity is without motive, ulterior
    no hidden agenda's
    beneath the exterior
    of a beautiful face
    you cannot seem to forget, erase

    for whom no one else
    can take his place
    to be seen, in equal
    the film in final, no need, thought, sequel

    you'd surrender it all,
    for this realization,
    "home",
    the engulfing, electric
    faultless, flawed, pure

    embrace.

    a safe place to surrender and drown
    and somewhere, in secret
    you feel as though...you've been found.

    (in him)....


    bowen hart roselli
    21 july 2020
    ringwald love
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    life, love, laid, success (all that shit)



    i don't get it
    cuz i don't get it
    cuz i can't forget it
    so i never win it
    cuz i don't get it...

    from dog to doormat,
    the blink of an eye
    from interested to "outta here"
    another dick, another guy

    another love, walks past me, by
    cuz i just don't get it
    this thing called life

    it's all a game, and how you play
    determines if you're a "leave" or "stay"
    determines if you,
    the stamina to succeed
    at the buffet where the beautiful feed

    cuz their the ones
    with the security of money
    and the ability to line up
    the latest "honey"

    fit the mold, you'll get the gold
    buy all the lines, and do as you're told
    be whomever they need you,
    the moment
    land of hypocrites, chameleons
    if you're a "you, that" , then own it

    hypocrisy reigns
    and few are complaining
    if it gets you the "get there"
    in the "good for you!" gaining

    of all it is, that matters here now
    plenty of cash equals plenty of pussy
    equals plenty of pandered to,
    equals plenty of power

    could be substituted for ass,
    if you're gay, bi, or "do anyone"
    could be substituted for cock.
    if your one of those women,
    too often seen as "fuckin' hot",
    but no fun

    domineering cunts
    out for power and control
    they got it, get it
    as in, get the shit done
    just dildo themselves
    instead of wasting their energy
    on caring, finding, "the one"

    cuz "love" cums and goes
    this day and age, a commodity sold
    cuz the ones that don't get it
    never read the book,
    or paid attention, were told

    the first to be slaughtered,
    fed to "the gang"

    heart of gold.

    "look here bro's and bitches, alike
    this one's ready and damn dude,
    quite ripe"...

    cuz they don't get it
    so we gotta show 'em

    "hey, lets play that game, called
    toss em and throw em"...

    fun, fun, fun
    as the sun sets on another day,
    heart done

    not "won",
    not cherished,
    but primed, for the perish
    cuz if you haven't gotten it by now,

    if real treasure lies in you,
    character, honesty, love
    better guard it with your life
    cuz few, if any,
    could care more than even slightly less

    that's my best hope positive guess
    from one who didn't get it
    'til way too late in the game to impress
    and in many ways i still don't
    which leaves me more, a wilting "won't"

    unless i fight like hell to change
    hide my "damaged divine"
    amongst all this "derange"

    i don't get
    cuz i don't get it
    cuz i can't forget it, (love)
    so i never win it, (life)...

    cuz i don't get it.


    bowen hart roselli
    19 july 2020
    ringwald love 
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    adverbs of frequency,                                                                         to express how much you mean to me



    sometimes stay and sometimes go
    sometimes yes and sometimes no
    sometimes fucked, and sometimes,
    "fuck you"
    always though, you inside me, true

    often lost and often found
    often surfacing and often drowned
    often left and often right
    always, longing, hold you tight

    never sure and never wrong
    never weak and never strong
    never fear and never free
    always here, why can't you see?

    daily done and daily didn't
    daily open and daily hidden
    daily sleeping and daily awake
    always ready, for you, your partake

    usually here and usually not all there
    usually truth, and usually dare
    usually sexual and usually platonic
    always, to please you, yes, i am on it

    seldom seen and seldom unnoticed
    seldom known and seldom unknown, this
    seldom silent and seldom voiced
    always, in adoration,
    you leave me no choice

    unusually bound and unusually free
    unusually you and unusually me
    unusually pouring and unusually plugged
    always, yes, for you,
    blind man,
    filled with love.



    bowen hart roselli
    8 july 2020
    ringwald love