Finding home

sleep
eyes closed heavy
pulled down from consciousness
Arms encircle
holding against the night
scents mingle
ease down
tensions release
blood and bone
safe

The scent of you
And the promise of another night
Together

Dipping below the faultline

Wash hands in broken glass
This smoke curls
Burns away blood

Consonant spill but
The waves never make it
To ears

Frantic replies
Ignored missives
Friends when needed

But just this smoke
And blood
Else times

Treatment like a cloudy needle
To make you feel…better
Used and discarded

Scattered in the shattered glass
You use to cut yourself
To remind

This is living

Reading tea leaves

The mercurial kiss of stone
Carves me down
Tracing petals
Fall, rushing
Sigils drawn in my bones

Our lips meet, soft and welcome
Missing your fingertips every day
Phantom dreams
Of what we’ve yet to share

Tracing patterns in heather
No touch the last

Shallow rising of a setting sun

Give me a taste of these things that I waste
Burn me up
Beyond recognition
Can’t find ruptures
Once the skin’s broken in

Last rapturous voice
Calling me from the grave
But I can’t settle
You woke me up
But test my mettle
And found it wanting

I’m still forming
Sky metal warming
Beat me to shape
My purpose is warring

But those days are past
Never was official
Just a man with a business card
And his hand out

Waking up to a reality I can’t know
Finding life amid the wreckage
But pieces stick
They’re vestige

A woken dreamer
Last memories spill across the page

Tap comes dry

Faltering
Failing
Words coming out
Haltering
Heavy handed
Lost the delicate touch
Words dropping like bricks
Instead of fencers touch
Breaking and broken
False smiles and fake friends
Loss and pain
Words and words
But all just the swirl of broken leaves
In the lonesome autumn night

Thoughts of a falling leaf

If I could be but memory
Or shadowed kiss
Bend sympathy

Slink slow across nerve endings
Spark lightning
Make each moment last

Our futures unwritten
We’ll write it together

More than you know

More than you know

They say more than you know
I love you more than you know
I value you more than you know
I want you more than you know
need you more than you know
you are more important than you know
you are smarter than you know
you are more beautiful than you know

Well…

Way to withhold information, asshole

I love you in the same manner that earth loves the gravitic effect of the sun that keeps it spinning and alive.

Holding back, it makes no sense to me