GRANT GUY

GRANT GUY

UNTIL

my language   to voice   to give it truth   was crippled

i crippled my voice    to keep the unwanted language at a distance

unable to do harm   b/c love & death are the same word

the walls i built were as strong as a granite

as hard as god’s unforgiving heart

to keep my language   my voice   to keep the words away

until

until you found my crippled heart & made it virtuous

until you found my crippled bed & made it virtuous

until you eroded the granite stone fortress

erected against the unwanted language

against my voice   against the word love & death

you filled my heart & soul w/o owning them

i filled your heart & soul without owning them

a new sound has entered   my ears     new words   & not frightful

it does not matter if we are in the quiet hours of the night

or in the golden glare of daylight

the words rise up like a choir off my tongue to a living air

the new sound   the new song

of my wanted language sings sings sings out loud

wherever the words    new sound travels    in laughter or tears

we could be holding hands or kissing

the new sound    how i love the sound of that

the words love & death

no longer chained together

i

love

I love    goddamn it

SHAKE HANDS OF THE DAY

a quiet dawn

& sun crested day

await the new lovers

in this moment

in the bed of discovery

they are in no hurry

to shake hands of the day

arms & bodies locked

in the frozen moment of time

the love of the waitress

& the singer of songs

flashed like holy signs

& etched by gentle rain

In their souls forever

a super 8 motel

never glowed with so much

poetry

ALL I NEED TO KNOW

for a love found & lost

& lost & found

she is the only light i want to know

for she is all    all that is beautiful

&

allows me to withstand the harsh to the heart

i raise my voice in harmony

to her song of light

allowing me to sing my song

for she is all    all that is beautiful

& she

allows an honesty to surface

& her song

is the birth of my honesty

that is all i need to know

GRANT GUY

GRANT GUY is a Winnipeg, Canada, poet, writer and playwright. Former artistic director of Adhere + Deny. His writings have been published in Canada, the United States, Wales, India and England. He has three books published. He was the 2004 recipient of the MAC’s 2004 Award of Distinction and the 2017 recipient of the WAC’s Making A Difference Award.