Heartache’s luxury breathes where lights burn
the thick smell of pancakes and fresh blueberries
passion wakes but all was lost ere it started
words falter in the debate of will or won’t
A mad dash for someone to hold
and lost amidst the jasmine
soft smells of resin and yellow pollen
waiting
unable to speak.
Fire flashes
last dance
night falls
golden light pours over the horizon
slow walk
more drudgery
memories burst
music swells
bass drops
Bodies writhe in heats abandon
Drunk on light
Barely aware
Slipping away
Hoping for…
Something
Waiting for…
Unknown
Working towards…
Nothing
And the barren notes of a silent Symphony
Crash
I am buried
Life drains away
Second become minutes
The slow torrent becomes
Drip
…drip
……drip
Last light before the fade
To tell a story about breathing
About air filling lungs
About not thinking about you
About not dreaming about you
Only this pressure building
From within to without
Exhale
Expel it out
But lead sits heavy
All the things I cannot say
Because I wait
These moments of desperation
Reaching for you
And finding absence
Scrabbling for purchase
In this new normal
In broiling heat
Sleep steals strength
Depression saunters its way across the stage
Hope of renewal, forgotten
Footsteps echo
Staccato fade
Doing
what I never would
I worship at your feet
Or suspend you in ropes and dark gazes
For you I’ll switch
Yours is mine and I am yours
Choose my problems over his
Our dreams over the static
Your happiness over expectations
Pelgris 