Lying here beside you Staring into the brush stroked abyss My mind registers And whirs And composes The words I'm overrun with The stories that run down the sides of my consciousness Like I ran down that hill in my white gown Running from my past Into our future I ache with excitement and yearning to speak with you Awakenings fresh on my ink stained fingertips Bubbling on the tip of my canvas stretched tongue Expanding and morphing their confines Unrecognizable Without meaning Devoid of intelligence Scrawls and scratches of a cave dweller Somehow paired with a Greek god Your smile Lost in the hieroglyphic translations on the page before you The conversations I long to have Reduced to mere finger-painted pictographs Where I lose your attention Incapable of expressing your radiance