Let me take you Put your hand in mine: in all softness and frankness: And let us dance Spin and flurry through a world of white, lavender, gorgeous scarlet, and vigorous cerulean- The wind our friend, our toes like feathers
Prancing across earth Held to each other only by our very fingertips Never afraid of letting go
We’re in a forest of orange and bright gold in the sky Floating toes brushing only air Soft leaves shroud our heads we’re blind to everything else Your lips curl in pure joy, they spill staccato laughter music to my ears In this moment, in this breath, we are Nothing else. Saw the sun and the moon one and the same Eclipses of light spanning the entire ocean It was a world above heaven and
I saw you Hair flying- your locks heavy with shadow and glimmering with light Face carved from the most precious Of nature’s birth and bloom My eyes tracing your steady legs and gentle hands- to rest on yours- your time-stopping; shattering; heartbreakingly beautiful eyes.
We took off To a world we had never seen; of new colors and jumping sounds and daunting heights and terrifying speeds- Look at all this sky! Look at all our freedom! Why search for ground if we weren’t ever to land? We could go anywhere in the universe- you and I! All of this boundless, endless space! Let us wrack and demolished to shards, those chains that bound us to the ground- and let us fly free, free, free- Just you and I- flying-
we are free
The sky is iridescent above the clouds before our clear gazes I see your face as beautiful as pure as I remember it; as our hair tangles in the wind; and our essence becomes one-
and…
follow me, my dear.
Follow me as we
f a l l
softly tattering into pieces and slivers and smudges devastating unravel into a thousand petals a flurry of pieces that used to be ourselves, resting on the ground like fallen feathers---- -
never to come back again
our wings have died
our legs have crumbled
and my fingers have gone,
i can no longer see or feel your
beautiful, beautiful face or hair or hands
Ah, can you feel it? Can you feel the darkness? It’s closing in, it’s swallowing us whole, The point of no return with no choice but to end Darkness has chased us in Only black oblivion waits