the lights from the street below shine weakly into the silent room she lay in the tangled sheets staring off into the night a television set oddly turned to face the wall flickers while its low volume garbles its incessant whispered babbling like some deranged man talking to himself the scents of ******* thick in the air there is a tray of food gathering dust a bottle of wine untouched she is motionless the **** skin of her face glistens in the shifting shadows of her silent thoughts
i sit in the hardback chair with difficult breathing apparatus trailing my mental footsteps i tread carefully through the narrow dark wood of her languid eye with small talk laying out a feast of interesting topics she is not hungry
a storm flashes lightening far out to sea images come to the mind of a ship chasing the dawn desperate to break free of the natures fury and the captain at the helm heroic figure standing fast against the odds holding to the wheel and shouting to all hands the rain falling in tangled sheets focus returns to the room she is falling motionless entangled in the beds sheets i am the brave helmsman standing fast this ship has already sunk
daylight appeases the minds of the littered minefield of broken and bent on the bedroom floor so they now allow begrudging paths safely to be seen her eyes have closed sleep the dust encrusted food and the stale wine make a feast for the birds who's small wing fluttering are the only sound the sun's heavy light falls in a narrow shaft that glows against the dark wood background i slowly ease my hand into its warmth like a swimmer testing the waters i dive in and my soul swims the shaft of light up to the bright world leaving this place of shadows and this woman of darker dreams
she awakens hours later to find me laying on the floor with one hand extended out to where the sun once held sway laying there wrapped in my dreams of liquid light dreaming of the day just past and the days to come she lay next to me and cups me in her arms while weak lights from the street below shine up into our quiet room