I'm afraid if I stay,
I may never leave.

When
the
sun sets
gorgeously
behind the mountains,
we are reminded everyday-
There is always beauty to be found amidst darkness.

-FJ. Pacaldo

Sometimes I wonder
if noise had a colour
then what shade
would silence be

you breathe in sweet zephyrs
you speak in rosewood and petal-moss
you sing in cascading ultramarine
you smile in gleaming lavender lust
blue
like the ionian sea
or silken-soul river
and momentarily
a lucid
sapphire touch

And over time,
My pen stopped bleeding
But my heart didn't