Leslie Alexis Poems

The air was so quiet their heartbeats were heard.
Each on its own as sweet as the call of a song bird.
Their heartbeat as drums and their breath as violins.
They stood, awed, as Adam and Eve must had been.
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The breeze was hot
The night was dry
The moon was big
The sky, star-eyed,
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Let me be the kept promises of your tongue
The yes, which by tomorrow is fulfilled,
The no, completed because it was your word;
Let me be your honesty.
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He’s no composer of music that gain praise from men:
His fingers do not strum the cords of the guitar well.
He’s no sculptor of Davids that paradigm mankind;
At his touch marble breaks as though eggshell.
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As a boy this he is what he wanted to be:
A fireman whose hose can make a sea,
A soldier whose suit commands order,
A policeman; to his car there’s none louder.
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Are you dumb?
Do you not see the string?
Feel the puppeteer’s pull
On your every ping?
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Life is much like a shingled roof
That’s glued tight to make rainproof,
But time and time one goes aloof
And the whole crumbles with rainfall.
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I wait for the morning like none I ever had,
When I wake to television without ads:
No selling, no stealing, nothing to pay.
I wait for a time when money does not make the day.
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I have no desire for gifts
This Christmas
No mistletoe kisses
No well-packed wishes
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One should not
Hide their smile
When the sun blooms
in the morning.
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