The Other Familiar

"One last companion piece, this time for my second Lush poem"

My touch once turned you to stone,folded the intricate universewithin you when longing couldn't keep me here anymore.I still read your pages by candlelight to see if the words revealed more to you,golden glows flicker against inkthat may as well...

Marked Again

"A companion piece to my first poem published on Lush."

I wonder if you still feel me inside,if the winter traced along and marked your being as it did minebecause certain threads still remainThat convinced me our limbs could curl and spiral together,your frame indistinguishable from my own,never to part...

Left

"being left what happens"

What happens when the heart is left Behind beating All alone What happens when the loving ends The hurting starts And the dream is lost What happens when the words stop The silence begins And the pain sets in What...

I know you are hurt. That you think you are ice. A thousand walls put up, Soldiers guarding every small cracks, Ready to defend the Enemy of memory, of what use to be, of new, possible love. I know you...

Do you feel as time goes on that you have have begun to die?Twisted and decayed,Our minds start to go,My conscience dying along with everything else bit by bit.When you dream you can no longer fly,Everything you thought you knew,...

I stand before you cryingHanging my head in shameThis isn't what I wantedMy love is not a gameMy intentions are to leaveTo slip into the mixAnd live among the chaos What's broken can't be fixedAnd as I turn to walk...

The Treck Back to Love Again

"The survival of those who had their love and trust betrayed"

Return to me my precious one And I’ll return to you in spades. Come with me towards the sun Where neither love nor passion fade. The trip we’ll take through loves lost lives, Include those on lush whose hearts lie...