Where have you been? Out and livid. Crack the shade and peel back regret. Sunkissed and drifting.
When dawn comes, I am beside you and I am everywhere. In air. I’ll follow the forked path. Shimmering moonbeams and a twin-size bed.
Bitten with a wild ache. Riverside songstress. The bird psalm baptism. Never again.
Fantasize the sight, a broken rainbow's edge, opening doors, soft and falling. Crimson comfort. Dig the high, the torment, the black hole that swallows. Feel and forget.
Rain visits in loneliness. Thinning my wondrous anxiety. All the slipped tongue promises, bent. A heatwave races ‘round the consciousness.
Gaze off. Slow drip. A mattress with our forms forever imprisoned. My soul grasps the halo held with gentle touch, the thorn pulled, the scar fading.
And beside tenderness, I slept. Hope dizzies my tapering trembling. Spit down the throat, and I accept. All the memories, all the cracks in the void, spin.
