Cradle my emotions in the gentlest of whispers
Lace my heart with sultriest of ribbons
Fill full my sail with the worthiest of winds
Engulf my being in the sweetest of notions

Colour me beautiful with the most vibrant of rainbows
Propel my universe into the farthest reaches
Soothe my aches with the most abundant love
Carry my vessel to the sandiest of beaches

Embed my thoughts within the fluffiest clouds
Let soar my dreams on the bravest of kites
Set my destination in the furthest horizons
Present me with life's buffet with the tastiest of bites

Blades of grass shivered
As the fingers of the wind strum
A hum ever soft and hauntingly serene
Sweetest song my heart reluctantly would welcome

I stare into the minuscule expanse of land
The horizon does not exist far here...
But still my eyes would stretch
To see the obscured very clear

All alone save for the company of a lone tree
And the jovial chirps of annoying birds
On this island with very little space
Trying to find comfort in ill-arranged words

My eyes do see but my heart remains obstinate
Beauty of the universe would always invite
I could just jump and join in its merriment
But... I am just a tethered kite

I'd want to rise to the highest skies
To be one with the nature's song, composed and tuned
Alas bound to a string, I can only go so far
I am my own island,
                      *helpless and marooned...

It was those blue eyes, sparkling with words
I dreamt about reading but believed it impossible
Too beautiful to be seen with nuclear nerds
In my breakable beaker, you'd never be soluble.

A mismatched juxtaposition, atom for atom.
Even if I permutate, molecule by molecule.
We could never have struck stable equilibrium,
I could never escape the premise of ridicule.

Spent too much time postulating the unknown
Spent far too long balancing tricky equations
Head dug too deep to realise a factor that had grown
An external variable that had encroached with similar intentions.

My hand slipped from the scale when your finger touched my own
I forgot the words "controlled reaction", momentarily
Seeing goosebumps on your skin, and other bumps now shown
I gently pushed your wayward hair behind your ear, daringly

A moment frozen in the range of sub-zeroes
Dare I forgo the mandatory steps and arrive at a conclusion?
If I do I'd garner the title, "the nerdiest of all heroes!"
My "spidey-sense" failed me this time, and awarded me with a "fist-meet-face" reaction!

Happened in a blur, nanoseconds that sang in mock.
What was it that left me in a twirl?
Propped myself up to see the wrath of a crimson-faced ****.
All fists, no brains who yelled, "Hands off my girl!"

All this hilarious yet passionately painful hullabaloo
Let me drop the beaker of sodium in the zinc basin
Forgetting not to get it wet, the moment, clearly now unglued
When suddenly, "BOOM" it sounded like a pending cremation

Jocks, and nerds, and screaming cheerleaders
Hit the ground like a lunchtime scene from downtown Baghdad
And Blondie whispers in my ear, like a gypsy mind reader
"Maybe we should cool it, for I am in love with another lad"

Her words hit home and burned like The Lindenburg on fire
Amidst the fracas, cracked voice stammered to mask my bruised latent ego
"Nothing improper... Just an attempt to save your locks from the Bunsen burner
Science is my only love, just so you know"

Thanked God for my eyes and the need for correction lenses
Those thick convexes made it easy to not reveal
Steadied my frames and packed in hasty pretences
Accusing eyes followed as I exited the room with tears concealed...

Pieter Meyer
**ryn

The stars, the rain, the sun's fire
All my hearts desire
Thinking back on wavering roads
How I never let you go
Found again after countless years
Diminishing all my lonely fears
Love which never faded away
In the background the songs you play
I reach to run my fingers through your hair
I love the way we'd look like a pair of love struck teens
You, the very root of my fantasies, and bad dreams
May countless flowers bloom for you
The sky's warm kisses soft and blue
I've loved no man more
He  had been an open door
welcoming me in from the cold

My heart
My hopes
My fears
My memories
My mind
I lost it all.

I can no longer feel my heart beat in my chest. It's frozen in time.
I thought it was on pause, waiting for you.
But it's slowly starting to turn cold.

I have nothing to look forward to anymore.
What is my life without you?
What is LIFE with the absence of your love and light?
A life minus the very essence of you is a life I hold no interest in living.

I no longer fear darkness.
The monsters under my bed, nor the ones inside my head.
What does any of it matter anyway?
Why would anything possible phase me when I've already lost the greatest thing in my existence?

I don't even remember the crisp green colour of your eyes, nor the vulnerable velvety sound of your voice, nor the battle scars that traced your veins and made coloured splotches on your knuckles, nor the way you held me tight, nor the smell of your musky scent that smelt like patchouli and home, nor the way you held me when we would say goodbye, nor the way you promised me it will never really be goodbye.

I can't ******* think straight. It is 9:59 pm on Christmas Eve, eve, and you're flooding my mind and I can feel simultaneously both everything and nothing.

I don't know anything anymore.

I don't know who I am or who I was or who I want to be.

But I ******* love you and I ******* miss you.