Death.

Death surrounds every
Beautiful flower
That once bloomed.
All the gray.
The moss leftover.
The ivory clings
To what's left of the earth.
It's my loneliest time.
Sun still rises
But you miss the way it feels.
It's a maddening tunnel
That never seems to end.
Then I remember.
As if it just left yesterday.
The bright hopefulness of spring,
The smell of lilac,
I miss it's determination.
To try again.
Be better then last year.
Become as beautiful as it once remembered.
As I remembered.
I'm tired of seeing
Death.

Woman.

I saw her
Beautiful presence of
Womanly being
I knew I loved her then
I saw her
Essence and grace
Stockings up high
Red on her lips
You felt as if you have been with her
Before
It was the art of holding what you were up high
Pride is ones worse predator
Rare.
She was everything
It wasn't a look
Hardly a moment
When you see her
You kind of just stop.
The way the skirt hugged her.
She was everything
That mattered about
 being a woman.

The Sea.

I walk somber

Against the fainted tan

Crisp air you followed me

Salt air keeps me

I have missed you

Like memories of me

When I was...

All my darkest 

Come for you 

The promise you make

That in the end

There is only you

But that is enough. 

Playing with fire.

I lite a fire
Grew in my hands
The glow alone
Could light a world
Unknown.
I watched it dance
Fiery flames of madness
Till it blushed my palms
I got too close.
Blistered.
Heat.
Fire.
Ice cubes!
I got too close.

Rain.

I want to dance in it.
The drops fall
Heavy
Like children's pitter patter
Suddenly I only listen to you
When I hear you.
Smells so brisk
Salty like the ocean
You have traveled far,
I breath calmer
Inhale deeper
When I smell you.
Stained droplets scatter
When you stop
I can only pray you will
One
Day
Return
So I can dance again.

When I Left.

I had to go
I couldn't stay
My feet began to move
Before my mind caught up
I knew it then
I would hurt you
Deeply
It's not a natural thing
For me
When I went
I felt alone
Deeply
My only companion being
The crunch of ice under my toes
It's the only thing I felt
Cold
Like the frozen rain
The falling chrystals
The melted snow
The shoes that didn't fit
I ended up on a street
I didn't recognize
It became clear then
What I was running from
I had to go
I couldn't stay
When my feet began to move
It was from myself
And not from you.

Life.

Done
seen
FELT
Full body in
Only to this thing we CALL
life?