Swallow the Stars

 

Illumination

A spark of this.

She lights the room

To watch me leave.

Waiting for something

that won’t shiver in the night

and go cold. Moonlit lullaby

somewhere between earth and sky.

Starlight. The song of darkness.

She sings sweet sounds, serenades silence.

Seas swell, shift of seasons, shallow sights

shattered by shoreline sirens sinful screech.

Scattered swift and swept. Silent struggle.

 

Call down the moon,

This pearl in your hand.

Break the tide apart,

This quaking of the heart.

Why not love this soil prison.

Stuck dirt on loose collars. This was

Always black and white. Moonless

Sky this palmed perfection.

Bleed this heart dry.

Soothe a shadow-souls secret sting.

This sizzled skin still strong

She sends succor in substitution of self.

Re-creation of unrealities

Suffer this too to pass.

The burden of the mountain is

That it will not die and so

Can only watch. The door that

Does not budge should not be opened.

Possibility of affection, to avoid

Inspection this slight shift of perception

Will be deemed necessary.

 

Reviews

[Freder Fredersen (aka G..]

Solid write. I enjoyed it.

FF