A likely nightmare
waking alone
your silhouette
on the horizon
did you depart
in these echoes
of water and stone
effluent
or did your wind
scatter you away
bear you aloft
ephemeral
look at your distance
see your vanishing
you become a fading shadow
at sun rising
you linger
tracks still following
a straight line
in the long sand.
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First published
June 14, 2016 12:02 pm
An’ I must go
For you have left
An empty hole
Where once
my soul was still
And I alone
Am all I see
Singly, simply
nothing but
a hand among the reeds
desolate
as the sun shines through
reflecting upon
the waters
and sparkling
with cold light
and little stars
of motes traveling
to and fro
alone never touching
turn your eyes
turn them here
to this, my sentinel
standing sober
alone on the walls
watching the sea
empty
soulless without you
praying
that you will turn
was I given permission to write nothing but the truth did I ask you to write about truth about me and of you leave me alone I cannot stop now leave me so I may sail slowly away you and I we’re in my eyes so forget your thoughts of me telling lies I cannot weave untruth’s rot behind my own eyes or in my unheard cries to sail away and live in my truths without your blindness do I cut you to tell the truth shatter our friendship let me go free if I stop, I’ll die believe so I may escape this cold grey for I see the truth in thee you cannot accept that my eyes are set free my mind leapt to find that cleft behind your dark eyes but I found only lies
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