Listen alone

Colours that enhance life lived

A harlequins kiss split in two

Dreams that once hid in a lie

Come to life on the back of my hand

Taking a chance on a word

I turn my head to drink the rain

I though I'd learnt a lesson in another life

Thoughts intertwine in a single illicit passing of a nothing

Brief may be the illusion of dancing 

Kiss me before you fall 

I know if I pass on this day 

Summer won't wait till the dawn 

Succulent yet the trees bleed

Passing time in the way I breathe

Words that have another meaning

Disappearance of a soul in blackness

Twist a look into a smile hidden beneath

Your eyes dart seeking solace in the void

Skin blisters into a shadow of remorse

I dance alone as I have no partner

Trust

In silence I hear the world 

I close my eyes to allow the nothing to envelope me

Her soft fingers pass by my skin

The breath of passing

Calming my being

I still myself and breathe deep

Absorb her beauty and being

Giving myself completely

Her smile warms my soul

As it does everyday

Trusting her with my heart

Cocooned in ruby and gold

Allowing her to hold

That which is precious to me

That which is now hers

Cherish

Cherish

I am not you

You nor me

Two lives lived

Diverging pathways

Intertwined in separate lifetimes

Meeting as a glimpse in this

A passing in that

 

Cherished be this meeting of souls

For it be lost again

Until the next passing 

Not remembered in the last

But known as a feeling

A memory forgotten

Sensed on the drift of the stars

Only a memory

 

Cherish time spent as this will pass

Time erases yesterday

Hurt erases tomorrow

A cut on a slender wrist

Only reminds of what has been

Yet lingers as a gentle reminder 

Of the two who loved 

Once

Hurt

A heart wrapped slender in barbed desire

A trick of words spilt on wonton tongue

Half truths and denial litter sentences that mean nothing

Left to rot amongst the discarded souls

 

Little left for the eye to imagine 

A life lived in hateful shadows

Ruminates upon reliving again

Scars that envelope a hearts living

 

Breath for the self sustains only a single heartbeat

Little else grows in a life less filled with sun

Cut out and again in an breath of one

Hurt is filled in the one less loved

 

Growth is suppressed as a step is backwards

Into the shadow of the lightless sun

Actions that cut scarring new skin

I close my eyes wishing to cease seeing