The golden lights glow and
          twinkle and
          dance
The magic of the bulbs like
     fairies prancing
     through the trees
Jumping from one snowflake to
     the next
The slap of the bone-chilling
     air tempered by the
     bewitching
     bouncing
     brilliant
     forest of lights in the middle
     of the city
The beat of my hollow heels
     follows me as I trace
     a path
Around this oasis
Forgetting myself for the moment

I've always missed you
So what's different now?
Now
I miss the idea of you.
I've always loved you
So what's different now?
I just realized
Admitted to myself
That I'm in love with you.
Never the right time for us.
Never the right place.
Except in the quiet
Arms and legs
Entwined
Our world

In the vicinity of midnight
After a sticky city day
The sweat of the streets washed away
The glow of the flat screen
And the anonymous king size bed
Prone and captive
No urge to escape
Captivated
Kneading
Leads to
Needing
Your touch topples towers
Avalanche
And then the
Quiver
Shiver
Lover

This life with you
     without you
     has driven me
     mad
The
Swirling
Twirling
Hurling
Whirling
Riddles that represent
This life with you.
Without you
I am nothing
     and
with you even less
who knew....
could have predicted
This carefully orchestrated
Mess?
Only you