i have had one taste
of your salty-sweet skin,
lapped gently at the soft solidness of your body,
loved the finite and fragile confinement
for the liquid soul swimming in your eyes.
now i will search for you
on every lonely shore;
i will fill each empty footprint
looking for your unique shape;
i will chase down unknown walkers
hoping to hold you again.
i will watch for you forever,
Lover i could not follow.
i.
she
doesn't speak
anymore.
if flesh
is a gift
then her presence
is spent.
and he'd
buy the world
for a word
from her lips.
ii.
he
counts the future
among
her possessions
daily.
the seconds
will never
amount
to the first
time he held her;
his hands
might as well
be the earth
that embraces her
forevermore.
iii.
she
still
doesn't speak,
but he
cannot
stop listening.
She pries the hands of her watch back an hour,
Yet everyone knows
It is still 8pm.
She can not change the clocks of the world,
Only her own.
She is no goddess,
Time is not hers to control.
She is no scientist;
She deals with much harder facts
Than those presented
By mathematical equations.
Her effort remains unnoticed,
Invisible
Tears streaming through her fingers.
The smudge in the makeup of Her
Life
Refuses to wash away
The tiniest of errors
Shake her tired shoulders
Like children
Constantly waking their mother.
They, too, cannot find rest.
A vicious cycle in the night.
She brings the world her dawn
Singing like a
Cold stone
and the withered grass rise up to meet me
Blank stare
of the darkened windows up above me
Gray wind
howls deep and harshly at my back
Red roar
heralds iron beasts across the tracks
I can see my voice floating
past the lamps of the night
I can feel the spines growing
by the coven's delight
The three who watch over me
and dress to compress
knit a golden curtain round me
I taste an old caress
The bundles of flesh
lay shivering defeat
the casualties with breath
no more than putrid meat
A wraith born of heat
spirals upward in the ice
I tremble at the sound
of a burnout soul's advice
He said, "Melodies are answers
At the end of the journey,
When it's time to look back,
It's not how far we travelled,
Or the goods in our pack.
No, my friends, it's not these
Nor the price that we paid,
As we travel through life,
It's the choices we made.
Laugh, and the world shies from you;
weep, and they weep along.
For worlds resound to the cross and mound
but men cannot smile for long.
Sing, and the hills will shudder;
sigh, and they bloat on air.
The tearsome sound is ever found
but mute is the voice of care.
Rejoice, and the startled flee you;
Grieve, and they'll never go
They have timid measure of all your pleasure
But are comfortable in their woe.
Be glad, and two friends are many.
Be sad, and you'll have them all.
The ancient pines sip on nectared wines
but weeds flourish on acid gall.
Feast, and your halls will riot;
Fast, and man bows his head.
For few can rise wit