The ocean is vast
and
the shallows deep
bounded
by
predators
in the devil's keep
.

Is it a mistake to confess what I feel,
When I already know the outcome is sealed?
All I long for is to hold you near,
Through the night’s embrace and dawn so clear.

Yet pain and sorrow, anger too,
Grip my heart when I think of you.
For in my dreams alone we stay,
Together, where love won’t fade away.

She
spoke in the way
I
imagined
and
when
I
kissed
her
it was a reverberation
of
words
that
echoed her heart
.

He eats at my soul with a lover's slow hand,

Each bite a hymn, each wound carefully planned.

His silence, a gospel, his shadow a prayer,

I light every candle, but he's always there.

A feast in the dark where no one can stand.

finger-painting walls,
soft whispers guard fragile light,
hope flickers within.

brushstrokes of my trust,
boundaries bloom like wild fields,
strength begins to grow.

abstract shadows fade,
in colors, I find my voice,
the self stands aglow.