Friday, April 3, 2020

Our Symbol, Our Love


I love you like tomorrow isn’t coming, as we tiptoe the landmarks
Of mars. Your eyes dream a former parade—and we die, swept
Into a fever. I love you like tomorrow is ending—for this is the
Love of satisfaction. I breathe your fairytale, unburdened by your
Attitude. I ask not the inhuman. I ask the deepest layer—a cause to
Scream and fly. Only furniture understands such stability, and
Only a psych understands the unstable. We live as twain, afraid to
Stress the oracle. And Neptune is crying, and Pluto is wailing, but it
Feels normal to hold on to controversy. And I love you like tomorrow
Isn’t coming, moving gently until, and we nurture such blankness.
Welcome me to pluck a tulip, and foil a rose as a keepsake—for
Forever is peeking—a mantle of heirlooms. I love you like tomorrow
Is ending—and champagne bubbles, Love—as we fall in private, and
Rise in public. Thus, a reservoir—our symbol, and life—our love.

Subtle Gesture

  Like a vision it probes—a subtle expression. Love has mastered subtleties. I perish with each one. It was never our luxury—sable honest ey...