The Memory

I sit and gaze
Inside the looking glass
It reflects clearly a time
Long since past
Overflowing with memories
Your smiling eyes
Linger before me
Your voice clear
A lullaby in my mind
The feel of your mouth
Pressed softly to mine
Our arms wrapped tightly
In a lovers embrace
A smile graces your lips
A giggle escapes mine
Twirling and laughing
The reverie of our play
Inspires a smile
This is what I needed
What I longed for
Watching the memory
Reaching out
My fingers find
The coolness of the glass
Lingering briefly
The image blurs
I am reminded once again
What I see is the past
A moment in time
A solitary window
Reflecting
My current reality

Melancholy

Two hearts

Lost in indifference

Wandering

Seeking solace

Hidden within forbidden fruit

Temptation

Entangled and revealed

Reaching into the fire

Beholding an illusion

Melting into one another

Perforating

Facades in keeping

Sharing secrets

Held behind

Walls of protection

Suffering self imposed

Melancholy

Taking comfort

In their obstinance

Finding a false

Reverie

Smoldering in the flame

Singeing their lips

Suckling a fantasy

Now steeped in ash

Scattered to the winds

Two hearts

Lost in eternity

Hand In Hand

I trip and fall,

Navigating the twisting and turning path.

My soul,

Unsure of my footing.

Questioning the direction I thought I knew.

My destination’s unclear.

All has changed before my eyes.

Still,

All remains the same.

Where will this opportunity lead?

What is my destiny?

Surely it is you that I see.

It must be.

True love lies in wait for me.

My heart answers your call.

I believe you when you say,

You will carry me away.

I’ll be caught if I trip and fall.

We’ll navigate the twisting and turning path

As one.

Hand in hand.

Your soul,

Bound tightly within mine.

Call Line

My heart's

Bled dry

My eyes now clear

The tears have

Died

Numb from pain

I’ve given up

On me

On you

On us

Nowhere

To be found

Your soul separate from

Mine

Say goodbye

Don’t leave me

Holding on

Dying

Do it now

Call line

Clarity

Who am I?

Must I explain?

Don’t you see?

The cavern that grows

Between us

Each time you

Leave

No warning

Not clear

Never clarity

I’m left there

Wondering

Waiting

Are you coming back?

Is it time to breathe?

You don’t

Comprehend

You don’t see

Let me explain

You’re everything

Tell me please

Will it be today?

Will you come back or

Stay away?

Why do I wait?

I don’t want to wait

I can’t

Comprehend

Who I was

What I will be

I want clarity

Still wondering

Still waiting

Forgotten Names

Wind whispers through low towers

Cluttering the ground in a

Row

Caressing souls who lay sleeping

Alone

Encased in hallowed ground gone

Cold and hard from years passed

Moss grows between

Cracks scored in stone from

Endless tears shed over

Wilted flowers left behind by weeping hearts unknown

Angels

Flit and flutter by

Gazing from above

Taking those ready by the hand

Guiding them home

Very few left behind

Those

Refusing to go

Wandering

Searching

Seeking yet never finding

Damning their own souls

Restless within this cold hollow ground

Doomed

The walking death they deny

Shedding tears upon wilted flowers

Staring in disbelief

Their name they see carved in marbled stone

Cries lost and unheard among

Winding winds

I hear them

Whispering to me around and through

Stone towers of decay

Fingertips caressing forgotten names

Strangled moss

Wilted flowers

Held in place tightly

Fed by their

Denial

Holding them in my heart

Speaking their names

Quietly weeping

Their souls wrap around my warmth

Feeding from me

Taking what they seek

Finally ready

Gazing from above

Taking them by the hand

Guiding them home