I've been expecting you.

15 May 2013

Ah, Well

Tonight I keep you hidden,
In the broken corners of my dreams.
Caress your face in the fathomless  shadows,
Till
 I wake with silent screams.

Under a pale shadow-moon
a night-bird flutters ominously.
Winged portent of my soul.
The beginnings of how my heart was rent
to bits by an iron-will.

I put it back : bit by bit.
Futile efforts by a blind Fool.

They tell me that love-bred flowers always die.
Who knew tonight that would fly?

The movie-hall lies abandoned.
Amidst spit-stained walls I sit
Alone
And watch the sad sad re-runs of my past mistakes in black and white.
(Pass me the bloody popcorn somebody!) 

2 comments:

  1. and the sepia tinted past becomes stark in black and white when one looks back. in the grey half-light of solitary daybreaks and the lonesome evening walks. pilgrimages to routes that once held too much to be walked without a slap of memories.

    yes.

    write on.

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