#dearjane
I unraveled her kimono
As if it were a gift,
When hours earlier,
She’d bandaged my arm.
I traced her clavicle
With the only finger left,
And seconds later, would
Intimately grasp the music.
So I whimper within want,
And blame it on the pain,
Come an instant,
She’d pegged me a “liar.”
Then we’d love, we’d wed,
A naked knowing only moonlight,
And should the hours understand
“Later,” we’d know only dark.
So the sunrise ensued,
I folded her kimono, silk and
As if it were a letter, one
Parting gratitude and prior wander.
But the crimson and
‘Ever’d arrive later, and later’d
Arrived atop a melancholy’s mount,
Eternal and seasoned “regret,”
She’d passed, we’d passed,
And the night’s passed to know
Only “broken,” broken, the bow,
And how all and always unravels.
Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 11:01 PM UTC