The tension in this room so thick you could slice it
Serve cut up pieces on bread
Truth hard to swallow
Sloshes inside my stomach
Like a heavy anchor made of lead
Discomfort burns body in all the wrong places
Can't help but squirm under your gaze
Attempting to navigate corridors of your mind
Somehow I'm always lost within the maze
Sitting silently in the aftermath amidst wreckage
Of a war waged without raising one fist
Remembering what beauty once lingered long ago
Over years steadily dispersed into the mist
Into dimming twilight we are diving headfirst
Deciding to dismiss residual fear
Not absence longed for but something else entirely
Can't place my finger on what hunger's looming near
Sometimes so loud I can't hear any noise
Only piercing quiet of a craving unknown
Intricate
Precise measurements
Indicate enigma has grown
Not having the answer within reach
Gradually driving me insane
Clarity
Sharp epiphany required
To put an end to perplexity in brain
Pause with me
Lend me some solace
Warm each tired old bone
Air inhaled dense with apprehension
Pervading like cheap cologne
Meaning discovered in connecting of flesh
Finally arriving like delayed flight
Sensibilities dance barefoot
Twirling beneath surface
For a moment allowing pupils to glimpse a ray of light
With you close remaining doubt evaporates
Emotion resurges
Love wholly honest and strong
Here in the present
Two heart's rhythm in unison
Realizing that is all I've wished for all along