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Silence Crashing In

We sit in silence,

backs crooked,

the couches' cushions caving in.

The weight of passing hours

and minuettes alleviating thinking

in a miscellaneous metronome

ticking to bring time to a heaving chest.

 

Stay calm,

the pain of realignment will pass.

Burdensome they may be,

burgeoning wings will free you of...

 

Pressure collapsing this cage,

walls torn from studs,

leaving only this skeleton

surrounding us as we find delirium

the backbone of convulsing lungs watched,

earthquake mute laughter marring the faces

with jagged faults.

The cost of cracking,

we must accept the scarring permanent.

Breaks unplanned infirmities,

alone, our time line disrupted itself

and the heavens came,

tumbling down.

 

In silence,

we lay, arms barring

our escaping words.

Eyes overstep boundaries,

slipping through the gaps,

a second moment of

clarification fractures restraints

whilst beguiling brainstorms

sparked our interest.

Our tongues meet,

shyly.

 

rubies placed upon your breath

slipping against molded clay.

In sapphires

you and I hold nighttime

reflections of passion

contained in coal, waiting.

Ivory runs my length,

bending to ecstasy, breathing

shallow, asynchronous, failing

to find it's end in persistence.

 

In night

the danger dropped us, longing

that dusty light beaming down on

the show, Act 2 is

the comedy. Off.

 

Parallel parabola line diamond reflections,

allow for recall with brushed fingertips,

horse hair undertones realigning smiles,

abstract the paintings of today,

of yesterday, stealing away tomorrow

in a previous reiteration of our variant

indifference.

 

The wings of the demon opened

in symbolic solace, fell far

across this burning emotional

harbor, aflame

in angels' suicides.

We've fallen, taken knees to grace,

whispering eulogies the waves applaud.

Sands wash away to cupped stone

palms, caressing the troubled banks lost

in time. The blood washes away,

momentary marks, brown,

stained, it passes.

 

Demons foreshadow.

In their shade we are seen

falling into broken arms, sinew

stitched through hearts, still healing

strength gives way.

 

Our tongues meet

shyly,

this reunion a mistake,

now locked, staying stilled while

attempting apologetic phrasing.

We sit in silence,

backs crooked,

blank walls and barren recounts

crashing in.

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