voyage

09/2011

Untouched rose petals float on the winds of your dream,

leisurely flowing towards the burning center of this mirage, 

clouds carry my hopes away across what remains of your sky.

Disintegrating rays of sunshine brighten my face as your apparition

descends to lay beside me upon our berth of spoken promises,

my aspiring hands reach to mend the cracks in your silvery skin.

Familiar conversations replay in gentler tones, while we hold

dearly onto reflections that time is so eager to eat away.

Shouts and cries cut through your lingering intoxicating scent as

they shake me in effort to wake me from these generated scenes

out of fear that I may never be able to return to harsh reality. 

I have wandered aimlessly though the brightly painted fields,

sailed the raging oceans detailed on the pages of your heart

and here in the comfort of your soothing memories, I will stay.

Author's Note

Reviews

[light and ashes]

A beautiful and tragic poem, sometimes certian memories bring us comfort so we linger in them, but we much not get stuck in them unable to get out for we loose sight of reality that way. However sometimes maybe it is better to stay in those memories if the reality is hell. Maybe being a little insane in that way could be bliss?

[♥ Kinnixk]

Holy...wow. The imagary...it's insane. Beautiful. Great work :)

[allie_arrowz]

This is so beautiful, amazing, sad.
Trying to live in the memories but you always get pulled back into reality
Amazing.

[rivers]

This is a great piece Joshua...You truly have written many wonderful poems from a unique perspective that I really relate to... this tugs at the heart at the same time feeling a peaceful understanding emotional resolution...You've got a great style to your writing...Thanks for sharing.

[Bridgette's Ink]

This is spoken with no offense whatsoever, but the way you warp something from dark to beautiful reminds me somewhat of a Tim Burton film. Forgive me if you take offense to that (I personally wouldn't) it's just how you describe things and indulge into the most unusual, yet captivating details such as "my aspiring hands reach to mend the cracks in your silvery skin." Again, I love your work and the mystery it exudes. BRAVO

[Spookers]

Beautifully written as usual. Nice work

[roarke]

good illustration. Images upon images. A well sculpted moment.

[BlueDreams]

Very dazzling write..After all the imagery is what that matters a lot in fantasies.. :-)

[EMF]

It's beautiful mate. Simply beautiful. I really don't think anything else can sum it up more

[Priscilla Sayers]

Powerful and tears at the heartstrings. Amazing Joshua. Simply, amazing.

[Alexandria Reece]

Not ceasing to amaze me, this flows so well. I love how it progresses without losing the initial aim. The words you chose are very well placed together, like a mosaic microcosm of the relationship detailed here. It was truly my pleasure to read your work.