Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Ebbing Into Silence

 

It seems ingenious by art of sound, tone hesitant, leasing a smile; if loving is made vulnerable, or strategic, how have we become stable? Holding to her calmness, her excellence, envying where she pledges allegiance; sore petals, softer grass, turquoise experience. In begging for obsession, to sense reluctance, by grace to have surrendered. Souls magnified, parish wishes, condemned to allergies—her swiftness, so many degrees, falling into a form of freedom—to adore, if worthy, some strange creature. It appears disingenuous, to claim against passion, to feign a dream upon an ax. Holiday sadness—those woes coming harsher, to remember a special soul and precious silence. If loving is made unpredictable, some unique monopoly, how have we become stable? I was noticing interior, the way she paws a heart, so intricate the way she plays nonchalance. In spirit to announce her, to receive self, cleaving to invisibility. So great the affection, so distant the reality, two hiking up hills. To exhaust compassion, to invert good luck, listening to joy’s radar. I was found daydreaming. I was located returning. I was lost in sable eyes. Some deep lantern, some sailing ship. Upon waves meant for adults.      

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