The sun set behind a veil
Still twilight stripped me
Exposing my truth
Feel the yesterdays
Fall around me
As the night’s faint light
Traces every beat
Of my heart
While the first star
Confessed my life’s journey
Straight into your arms
Love commands me
To submit
To time’s opaque omnipotence
And throughout the night
Your tenderness is all that remains
Upon my flesh
Feel me
Completely fall to pieces
In your embrace
The darkness that loitered
Scatters in the starlight
As my skin wears yours
Like the dense night air
Cloaks the dreams of lovers
And my heart is the sound
Of ten thousand drumbeats
Before the crowd of eternity
Looking upon us
From a luminous perch
Beyond the lusty shadow
Of my body’s surrender
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
