Shadow Lover

"The shadow appears"

The shadow arrives as every night. She tears upon my skin. My pain is their greatest delight. They open the fear I hold within. Claws that rip and tarnish my soul. Teeth that nibble and bite. Soon I find pleasure...

Chance Meeting Pt 2

"The unexpected evening entertainment continues back in the hotel."

We’ve been lying on the carpet, wrapped in each other’s arms, listening to our own heartbeats slow down, as well as that of the other. There doesn’t seem to be a need to talk with Edward. There’s a sense of...

Absentia of Cellophane

"Pulling a lover back from the Otherworld"

In my journal of poetic love, versus Argus eyedAs I scribe the vermilion with a darker shadeFeeling quintessence of silence calling my nameFearing no evil and feeling no painUnder the gleam of the magenta moonIn absentia of cellophaneAwaiting my shadow-lover,...

I was your shadow...the silence between usall that we could ever know.You had moved through me long agorepairing the cracks in my bonesmade manifest with winter’s grasp.I never knew they were there;your patient nature discovered them.I was your shadow,born as...