Gracious Words.

“Sometimes, there are moments,
pockets of time where time stalls
and the space between us
is drawn into insignificance,
as if fate’s very own hands
had created a black hole
and swallowed the distance
between us.
In these moments, I sit and watch,
not with my eyes but with my heart
as you sculpt the silence into
something so beautiful, it tears
away all shreds of reason
leaving the sweetest sense
of belonging to crawl beneath my skin.”

Like winter’s serrated breath through
the crystalline veins of the Black Willow,
hollow bones tremble neath 
the weight of misplaced whispers.
The haunting hush reverberates
within me, filling the emptiness
like some dark cancerous lullaby;
killing me softly and to the beat of your heart.
As tears weep from sobbing wrists
my fading thoughts carry you with me;
to rest, to peace, together
tonight;
I let you go.

I asked for a kiss
and kiss me she did;
with lips pressed firmly
on my own.
Intensifying
with every rotation
swirling like a cyclone
she was consuming me;
pushing me under.
I was drowning 
in her incoming tides
And as she howled at the moon
I could steal breath;
the beast had been freed
and it tasted like heaven.


Your eyes deceive you, my sweet
for you are not the reflection
that pains you so, the sadness
painted in your smile.
You are so much more 
than the woman you see
and this is why I love you.

And love you I shall
as if you were carbon
pressed deep with me,
lost in time, 
consumed by the fire
ignited by our first kiss.

And with time
you shall love you
as I do
and emerge as
the perfect uncut diamond
to my rough.

“When I see you,
when I touch you
when I catch your scent -
it’s like holding a chrome
kettle that’s been wired incorrectly
and is connected to the mains.
You course through me
sending tingles from head to toe;
what a fucking buzz!”

Breast to breast
her weight 
pressed,
to rest upon 
my own;
feather-light
but firmly 
rooted
by heartstrings.

Nose to nose,
eyes transfixed

on melded reflections
of 
enchanted souls;
united

without knowing why
but knowing,

they fit perfectly.
Lips suspended,
linger, hesitant as

warming breath
greets warming 
breath;
creating energies
that reach with unseen 
hands
to caress, to kiss
though lips have not yet met.

Behind closed eyes, I seek you;
consuming the darkness, step by step
until all that remains is your light
in the hour of the dead.
And though I may not see
I will know your touch,
the warmth that shrouds my skin,
permeates my bones and folds into me
with married breath and singular pulse.
And here is where I’ll hold you
until reality breaches the night sky
and I awaken, cold and alone
hugging the space your absence left.

“You are the sum total of your own
self titled imperfections and self loathing
but it’s all those little things you hate
that I fell in love with and will continue to love,
for I know there is no other you.
In my eyes, you redefine perfection
and are perfect exactly as you are.”

Maybe it was the haunting
opulent light of midnight’s
majestic grace bringing forth an
ethereal radiance so beautiful yet
never more heavenly than you;

maybe.

But on that night
as the moons reflection rose
from the 
still waters of the pond
and the gentle breeze 
placed tears in my eyes;
I saw your halo shining bright
as you wrapped your wings around me.