I’m not a girl with the sea at my feet in the morning
Having been beyond the horizon in the dogeared pages of the night sky
The vast encyclopedia of the love of lovers
Is trapped inside time’s vacuum of loneliness
The light I know is from distant memories
And it again is consumed by empty promises
Like wishing upon a star that faded long ago
All desire has fallen prey to the science of lies
This hurt masquerades as the truth
My pain is beautiful
Crouching beside my bed
in case time will vaporize me before the light of day
I am just me
While here, in this anopheles pose I am alive
Here I am innocent
barren and bereft
of that which I found within the ebb and flow of your tenderness
I need
I hunger
Electricity rushes through my fingertips
delivering precursory messages from the depths of my soul
alerting me that I will have you again
I must
I am not woeful in my yearning
as I disguise myself within these misaligned shadows
that quietly creep across me
and hush behind the umbra
that lies beyond the afterglow
The hollow late night air scorches me with its bold confessions
As I consider my own salvation is lost deep within your arms
a last prayer drifts from my parted lips
For once I was lost, and now I am found.
The curl of my lashes
Draws you up in my mind
Scattered dust and spilled ashes
This crush feels unkind
The core in the deep
The love lost in the seam
Smudged with a weep
Iridescent moonbeam
The crinkle of a brow
How my beauty feels so pained
Choked by time’s hands now
My light is forever feigned
When love spills throughout the night
Where tears once had all the fanfare
And lusty ways conquer hearts
That never knew such care
The parting lips of an eternity of sorrow
Release the pain within
Such fierce kisses commence
To let a new eternity begin
Take flight in me
I’m the other half of your soul
Find your way into the heavens
Let’s make each other whole
Up in the starry sky
Reach across all time
To where you’ll feel the real me
I’ll be worth the climb
Begin to end the height and depth of forever before it meets the snow-capped peak
This love in the infinite beauty of the starry night sky
Where the roads descend and climb on our path to the windmills
When a look turned into a touch
Reaching out for eternity
Beyond the heartbreak we surpassed
With each tightened bind
Blind to the unraveling
And so it crawls back to me
Heavy against the floor
Struggling knees and heart-achy belly
The language of a soul’s plight throughout utter desolation
Because without you
my world ends
The curtain closes on the day
The clouds came to lead the way
Just know that you have all of me
For all eternity
I think about you even when I should not
I loved you even when I could not
I fear the moments that have traveled on
Plucked me from your heart and are gone
Those moments that lie between the love of lovers
Fall victim to the night like the stars’ cloud covers
Where do sailors look when they search for the shore
Wandering alone with the night tide as a lure?
Waiting for the stars to shine again
Waiting for my broken heart to mend
Waiting for the light of day
Waiting for you finally say…
That you want me
For all eternity
He’s a million stars
Lighting up a perfect sky
The blanket of night
Wondrous to the naked eye
Telescoping,
His heart’s astray
The Kuiper Belt
In the Milky Way
Scared to know the truth
So he’ll never hear a sound
Frozen tears fall
But never hit the ground
Shattered
I’m the pieces that linger
In an echo
Of a come hither finger
A million stars
Beyond the curtain of candlelight
I’ll linger in a dream
To escape his heart’s flight
