The Humbling and Other Poems

by Robert J. Tiess

No humbled heart wants dominance.

Perhaps I won't state I love you. Instead, I'd show it every day. My actions speak. Hear what they say.

Your current turns my water wheel, drives my heart's machinery.

worn cornerstones of calculations decaying reasons in debris.

Perhaps in time, I'll land on you and see life from your point of view.

I need no stars to explicate the energy within our kiss. To feel your heartbeat, grasp your hand, or waltz with you is to understand the galaxies and everything, eternities disguised as time, this multiverse of mystery: your love's the lens that lets me see.

you wonder when you start to rise, if light exists outside this night,

A theory sets you on a path. You sense there's more than mortal math. The universe propels past cause, and thus, you wonder, and you pause.