"What brings us together pulls us apart"

Dripping words,
Pains of silence
Closed out, definitely alone
The past you cannot see
Crying pain....

Breath too shallow
Came from ringlets of devotion
Joined the old, with the new
Now forever gone, torn apart
Forevermore.............

Beautiful colors blowing away
Beautiful bridges that are after me
makes me turn my head once again
back to what I could have been ....

I don't want to fall apart
I don't want to cry and bleed
I just want to love you all
Please help me be myself again ...*

Debbie Brooks 2014

Pretend my eyes are blue
to match my blood;
deprived of life
and breath
my lungs search for air,
but I drown.
I hold no love, no life
between the gasping cavities
of my cavernous chest.

Pools deep below my eyes
unseen
Deep into my body, endless depth
to drown in,
drown my heart in my lungs

Stifle my love in depravity

Death with no oxygen for my blood,
for my brain,
for my mind,
for my love.

Blue.
I cannot feel,
for a lack of life
suffocates me.

~

lost in thought, a deepened musing,

far away from noise and music,

welcome silence, unthreatened hush;

twilight’s western curtain of dusk,

slowly lifts, unveils her features,

displays a show for just two creatures;

celestial risings’s muted dance,

neath the moon one takes his stance,

the mighty hunter, Orion’s threat,

till from the chase he falls in sweat.

the stars connect in tale by numbers,

whispered tell from lips each utters;

in dreams our bodies join the arch,

heaven’s hosts with whom we march,

a nightly parade of planets calling,

till herald sounds the curtain falling,

when daybreak brings them sweet relief.

as one by one they fall... in sleep.

~

postscript.

a trip to Central Washington's wine country last week under a rising harvest moon begged a nighttime detour to Maryhill’s Stonehenge. the starry night, free of city light pollution, the constellations, the shadows of a full moon on cold granite... all so hauntingly beautiful... reminds us that we are gifted our role in the nightly parade of stars, the breathtaking march of planets that we need only look up to join.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPK6iq0gnks&