your love,
bitter like your alcohol.

blaming me
for your lack of expressing it..

belly of the beast,
growling like the grizzly.

hungry for control...
thirsty for lust...

i craved dialogue.
i sit starved,
staring blankly.
recounting ten distant
monologues.

will my tongue
ever utter the words
my mind never mitigates?

will you ever touch me
again? . . .
will you ever touch
me again . . .

misty eyes.
flushed cheeks
as red as roses.

vertical jamboree.
modified...
horizontal soiree.

a world vivid.
fading.
silenced.
muffled..

star dusted eyelashes
pointed towards my toes.
slow motion heartbeat..
pounding headache..

standing.
stumbling.
standing.

intimate.
we move slow motion..

pounding heartbeats,
synchronized souls.

stubborn sick.
i pinch the wick,
burning my fingertips.

longing for our lips
to reunite..
reignite
that flame
that once engulfed
the universe..

will you ever return to me? . . .

when? . . .

when . . .