and spaces between us
you've come to show you'll go on
I'll show you
that I will too

After

From loving you came sunshine
and I lost my senses
rimmed in grey
we said we'd stay

February

I'll be late; don't worry I'm coming!
fingers flying vehicles veeringfatecolliding
what  are  you  talking  about?

Before

Never-mind, I draw the line
and fall like a teenager
[self destruct] and show up
like, and idiot

I don't need a dozen roses, you ain't gotta wine and dine me
just get all emotional, I wanna see you looking up

sensation overwhelms me
but this time it's not your touch
and in my black-tinged vision
I don't see you

the only thing we have in common, as spaces bends us apart
is the passage of time and the bruises we exchanged
space - yours fly by, reshaping your reality
           - mine sits frozen, allowing 985 to build a divide
           -
           -  and bruises heal, as memories change and fade with our
              common passage of time
if all i am is a faint smile between your lips
                            im happy

rose petals dance in the springtime breeze
azure skies above, dotted with faint grey clouds
and if you listen too close,
you'll hear the huum of the bees

wind in my hair, sun kissing my face
I glace to the left and see your body all strewn out
smiles flicker, eyes alight, you're my first place

and as the sands fall and time slips away
we pull each other close and embrace for the day

I hold your eyes with mine,
you hold my heart with yours;
we can become one
behind closed doors

i tuoi occhi marroni svolazzano
e dico piove le rose
le nostre labbre sfiorano insieme
e i nostri cuori battono contemporaneamente
le rose hanno le spine, mai io te **
le rose bruciano, siamo in fiamme
ti amo da morire, fino ad allora, sei mio

cool breeze
Autumn's cloak
through the trees
softly, I spoke

"The only difference between us is
you're too scared to say you love me,
and I'm too scared not to say I love you"

a moon bright
birds twinkling above
stars sing in the night
my song of love

"Lay your head on my chest,
let it fall with my breath. Each rise
is a truth, each fall brings the next"

the fire slowly dies
and the darkness closes in
who could forget all our highs?
who could forget where we've been?

"I'll never see you again,
so maybe it's fine, that you've
succumb to your fears,
and I've beaten mine"

and as seasons drift away
and our time turns frail
all I've left to say
comes in one final exhale

just imagine
seeing the water jettison into the sky,
the spray bursting off clouds
mist glistening through air as colors drip between droplets
the base of the water-rise acting in place of the precipice of a water-fall
just before liquid jewels ascend towards the empyreal
and separate into a thousand small gems, each with their own color, their own purpose
to the surrounding Vleiroos at the summit

But We don't rely on water
we grow and bend and ebb and flow with the water rising past us
But we cannot rely upon it
it does not char and burn, nor crackle and conflagrate like our lover does
he is the one who burns us up and blows us apart and turns us from ashes to dust to doxy and expiry all through accouchement

blessed be the fruit
of the vleiroos in the winter
and blessed be the water
given to the vleiroos in spring
and blessed be the fire
that carries the vleiroos through pullulation

I love when he threads
the tips of his fingers
in mine, drops his head,
leans into me, draped
over my shoulders

I love when his feet
lay on mine, hidden
under the table, yet
emitting energy in motion

I love when his lips
press shut, pursed to
hit, and fall on
my collarbones, finally
shocking the air from
my lungs

I love when my pen
scrawls over the page,
leaving the trails of
ink behind, depicting
                               us

Our first synthesis
photophsphorylation
And our first breath
adenosine diphosphate phosphorylated with an inorganic phosphorus
Growing into something beautiful
primordiums breaking from the shoot apical meristem
You were from one, and I was built of two
of the cotyledon difference
I watched as your skin peeled into the wind
as the sempervirens battles the deciduos
And your beauty withered away as well
Angi never surpassed Gymn
And there we stood
never before so different
And yet never the same

Black and White your paint pours from your tongue
And my lips could never go past yours
because I drink the colors
that would shatter you
like rain
through the bow