Every lover knows

It's up to us
what we do with this
use it, abuse it
discard it at will

Or turn it into a paper airplane
on magical wings
fill it with a breath of air
you breath and mine

Watch it soar untrammeled
above the ordinary and mundane
transmogrify into passionate and
singular and so essentially us

That years from now, when we
look back, wistfully maybe...
you from your vantage point and
me from mine...won't we be glad
we didn't abuse it.

nameless faceless you

nascent, silent, you
flood my universe
sans presence, sans words, sans love

this heavy quiet
paralyses yet
shimmers, a distant mirage

turns mute, ominous
calm before the storm
sweeping me out of your reach

roiling unease drowns
my gut, as my soul
assumes foetal position

could it be crossed wires
cipher missing key
scrambled code I read it wrong

oblivious
to fractured desires
the cosmic tango spins you

out of my orbit
tormented intense
your early warning radar

pings and beeps you safe
past conflagration
I watch you go, sucked away

I do not fight to keep you
as your life establishes boundaries

sets limits
beyond which I would not step
hallowed space excluding me

pause dream consider take stock weigh options
analyse refute accept

pushpullebbflowebb
whatever it was
magical spark extinguished

this week fills me with dread
rock-heavy and dark
foreboding? omen? who knows

seven days will tell
my wart starts to twitch
soonsoon i know i will know

In the stillness

I feel you in the stillness
blueblue of the ocean
catching in my throat
a thousand myths
siren song and tridents
desire burning sightlessly
across the abyss
too far too far

I seek you in the darkness
the blackness said it all
doomed at the start
You turn away
But not before
One by one
The candles flicker out
Reclaiming you heart
your soul your stomach
your liver and your spleen

I had a dream, a nightmare
release floods the dam bursts
forsaken eddies swirl
and beckon and swallow
leaving no trace
all gone all gone
leaving only stillness and
I feel you no more

I remember you well

Come over here, where have you been
I know you from some other place and time

From planets past, from time surrealistic,
From Dante's inferno. Or was it New Majestic?
After the show...

Was it with you I shared my bag of popcorn
Or no, perhaps my hills of pine and deodar
No wait...I know...
that lazy summer evening
In a tub of scented water sipping wine...

Or could it be we've really never met?
But look, remembrance is in your eyes yet...