Where are you?

kylia Poems

I cannot find you anywhere Not behind heavy-lidded eyes Nor underneath those covers We used to share, do you remember? I cannot find you, though I search Trust me, I search high and low and near and far but you-- You remain a mystery, an abandoned house sitting Among fields of wildflowers Boarded up, roof caved in Creeping moss along cracks, ivy climbing up your Cold, concrete cast. They say eyes are the windows to the soul But you've pulled the blinds shut Padlocked, hammered like Every single Friday night I cannot find you anywhere Not among the stars in the skies Nor in the dreams I used to discover With only you and the cold air of December. As it stormed, the leaves on the birch Fell like snowflakes, like the doves on our tattoos-- We were one, but now we are two two twoanditstings It stings that I can't climb this tower To rescue you. We can begin again! But you slipped like shadows out of this door (our door) A missing person broadcast And suddenly I am a boat without an oar I am human but you are the eye of a storm and my heart! It reels me in for the strike. I don't fight