To lose yourself in someone else

May seem a sweet relief

Sighing grief

Between their teeth

While tracing soft pale cheeks.

Gathered heat and tangled sheets

Paper, silk and ink

Vestiges of memories

Scattered on the floor

Stained with spots of bright green shots

Held in forevermore. 

Till stars appear before our eyes

In breathing’s labored grasp

Held closely in between the words

Our hands so tightly clasp.

Crumpled sheets of silk and wood

Discarded on the ground

Words too much to even speak

Too much to make a sound.

Sighing gently

Silently

Almost like a thought

Whispered.

Heart of Oak

From hair and eyes like oak and pine

Words poured from cherry lips

Sweeter and fuller

Than honey, maple or wine.

Verse sustaining and sustained

Founding and finding

Secure foundations for hope

Entangled like roots and rain

Rising from her lungs whole

Devoting air to the single phrases

I devour in form like rivers

Sending chills throughout my soul.

Yet, even fixed I cannot comprehend

The priceless nature

Within this goddess

I call friend.

Separation

Mind’s suffocation

Choking each little thought

Drowning each feeling

Trapped behind a bulletproof wall

Built to stop the pain

Unbreakable, but transparent

Seeing and understanding

But divided from everything,

Everyone that matters.

Exhausted Respiration

Your name catches in my throat

Like a breath I feared

Abated

Before it struck my lungs

And rendered paralyzed my disposition.

I am lost

In pursuit of fruitless acquisition

For words too heavy for exhalation

Invalid explanations

For all you make me feel.

Yet, failing proper respiration

I’ve still discovered systematic devastation

And traced the cause to you.

Reminders

It’s funny when you smile like her or him

Or that person you once knew

That little twinge,

The tilt of the head,

The catch in the chuckle

You subconsciously noticed

Yet included in your portrait of them.

The way her tongue caught between her teeth

Or how her teeth tenderly graced her lips

When she couldn’t quite express a thought.

The words he made his own

From mismatched particles of language

And tidbits of thought.

The people in your life

Slowly sharing subtle textures and actions

Slowly become one.