Like air, I’ll rise
you cannot see me
yet I’m felt
like the wind that whispers your name
or touches you
unexpectedly
a cool caress upon your cheek …
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What prayers are given
within this holy silence —
How does the wish to be anointed
with the saving grace
of touch
manifest itself …
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Night falls,
and with it the cloak I’ve kept
upon my thoughts.
How tightly I’ve bound them
tom me
until now.
They stretch before me
dark and silent seas …
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Shall I lose myself in this
blackbird night, lush with silence
and dark thoughts that take root
to bloom in midnight’s garden?
Solitude and reflection,
is a mirror laid upon my cheek
and a sense of belonging is magnified …
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Is it naught but
a foolish notion
seeking to conjure you
out of the mist of memory
and longing, bruised and bittersweet…
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Isn’t it romantic –
the way it climbs and curls
uncaring whether welcomed,
undeterred by the inhospitable
brick and mortar of our lives.
It enchants us,
vivid, lush with promise;
curves holding light and shadow ...
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Let me
breathe
this once
without thinking, no tears
falling from scrunched up eyes
or lips salty with memory and regret,
the waves having crested …
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As I wrote, the memories
unspooled like film, images
shuttered and left to gather
dust in the far reaches of my mind
a book never shared
only a what if of never knowns …
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We leave our hearts in the snow,
no last goodbyes left
to melt the ice clinging to the edges.
I wonder if is it possible to lose it all —
heart, mind, soul,
in a single breath —
the one you took with that kiss
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We breathe in waves,
inhale
exhale;
the ebb and flow
of all we say,
fluid as water.
But what lies hidden
in unspoken thoughts —
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