#evanescence
To pass away gradually dissolve in the air I feel you soaking bare
Fingers in your hair richer deeper fuller beyond a world compare
Something breathes in your garden beneath petals aching to open
You've gathered in me, words, states of being naked thin in a glen
Out of the vanishing fade in a mist lifting from I see you in a field,
And in that moment of a circling long evanescence soft slow yield
Upon a felt distant, warm, in a shape, a woman, who I cannot stay
In the even most intimate closeness always already slipping away
I feel in you deeply--you sway--meaning blurs refuse to pin down
A skin that rubs beauty as the dream slides in angles to the round
We touch it just enough to feel it disappear in a fog lost in a vapor
Like bodies in the grass, words on a glass, ghosts of desire we stir
You kiss me and already, the warm in you grows cold waiting old
You drift inside the movement always just inside the flowing fold.
Mar 28
Mar 28, 2026 at 8:57 AM UTC
People talk about death
As if it is the end
Sometimes I see it as a beginning
They tell me that a person expires
When there role is played
And they have done there part
Sometimes I think this body of ours
Is made of wood
The older it grows the more it has to offer
Many people die before their time
People talk of death among other things
These are the very people who should be allowed to grow
Apr 21, 2020
Apr 21, 2020 at 2:54 PM UTC
Do you still remember how we used to be?
Laughing and laughing beneath the sea
The thought of us being forever
I didn't realize that it was going to be over
Everytime my love for you grew
Now I realize, all of it wasn't true
Yet you realize that you're late
Well I'm sorry, but my feelings already fade
Apr 11, 2020
Apr 11, 2020 at 12:59 PM UTC
Patiently waiting for the perfect light.
Glassy lake, wind, clouds, perfection’s near
as the moment dwindles into night.
Captured moments prove that you’re alive, a height
of feeling between depths of time and fear
that living casts only imperfect light.
But the moment missed is like a face out of sight
that against all logic you hope will appear
from around a corner, framed by the night.
Technology offers consolation in its sleight
of hand: Digitally correct the analog here
and now, counterfeit the perfect light.
Yet you want more than the remastered byte.
You want the flash between waiting and souvenir,
Self and spectacle fused, reality felt right.
And so you wait for what’s passing out of sight,
the collision between soon and too late, sheer
threads connecting to the perfect light
before the moment dwindles into night.
May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019 at 8:56 PM UTC
Sugarcandy or a chilli flake
Either a sweet tooth or a burning ache
Lethal or way too safe
Either a tequila or a fresh water lake
A diamond or a snowflake
One meek other too brave
Rumi's words or Evanescence
It's birth and death at play
Dec 7, 2018
Dec 7, 2018 at 8:11 AM UTC
Ere those despairing months have come to pass
And befall my pensive condition
With tempests that hide a southerly sun in undulating expression
I examine my place here
Mind swaying like blades of grass
With neither voice nor sound of breath
I consider the evanescent present.
Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018 at 11:40 AM UTC
you don't have
to hurt
yourself
any longer.
let's just
fade slowly
together
forever...
Jun 12, 2018
Jun 12, 2018 at 10:47 AM UTC
'Twas driven mad this day,
over something small.
Small I say,
But only seemingly so.
Like doors to the fray,
my feelings did flow.
Thine lips of Fate,
they kiss me fondly.
N'one shall know,
Tho they look at me oddly.
Shouldst I dine on thine maniacal stare,
my thoughts and feelings I bare.
and find mineself in evanescence
eternity passes with such sweet decadence.
Finding ourselves in this,
blissful garden of darkness,
My mind doth wander.
Far, Far above those crooked branches,
to a different place in the eon.
You sit at my side and make me whole.
Our child is beautiful,
calling my name.
Jumping on my knee she says with her lips,
"I want the raven."
Before I could reach for this "raven",
I awaken to your nudge and smile.
Gazing into your eyes,
Almost lost,
In the endless depths of your soul,
I recite a verse,
Of that I rehearsed,
Hoping it wouldst make us,
even more so amorous
"If I stay,
I mean,
If i might,
Thoust shouldst be my life."
You question my verse,
And tho you hesitate,
I continue with a simple voice.
"Please, my sweet ember.
Please, my true love.
Find it in your heart and soul,
that you love me,
and make me whole.
You are my One.
I love you."
And as I reach out,
I hold your hand in my palm.
Removing that which is concealed.
I give you my heart in a case,
hoping you give me this alms,
and allow us to meet in affectionate embrace.
Apr 2, 2018
Apr 2, 2018 at 3:13 AM UTC
A stately airship gliding
Over the mysteries of the skies,
I am the smoke trail
That you have left
At your wake.
Evanescent as I am,
Would you really exist
If I had not followed you
Wouldn’t you have been lost,
In the colors of the evening skies,
If I had not pursued?
May 6, 2016
May 6, 2016 at 3:52 AM UTC
beautiful mix of words
from the songs that call
to my soul
out on the landing
that friend i forgot to send home
taught me how
i could save a life
but it was too late to apologize
cold and ashamed,
i lay naked on the floor
i was calling you at 3 a.m.
i just wanted to hear your voice
to tell you that
when i'm gone you should carry on
when i cried you wiped away all of my tears
i'll never be able to thank you enough
and i will never surrender
Mar 21, 2016
Mar 21, 2016 at 8:21 AM UTC
(Villanelle)
It takes patience to wait for the perfect light.
Glance away and the image can disappear.
And sometimes the background isn’t quite right.
The moment missed is like a face out of sight
That against all logic we hope will appear
From around a corner, bathed in perfect light.
Or a pause in the music on a moonlit night
When hesitating lips touch, and love leans near,
But voices whisper that something’s not right.
Technology offers consolation in its sleight
Of hand: Digitally correct the analog *here
And now*, counterfeit the perfect light.
Yet we want more than the mastered byte.
We want the flash between the waiting and the souvenir,
The instant when self and spectacle fuse, reality felt right.
And so we hold on to what’s passing out of sight,
The collision between soon and too late, the sheer
Thread connecting to the perfect light
In which the background is precisely right.
Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015 at 7:51 PM UTC
Why do poets and photographers love fleeting things?
Angled shafts of sunlight piercing a mass
of clouds. A rainbow flashing from dragonfly wings.
Water drops beading like shards of glass.
The fluttering shape of a sycamore’s shade.
The sun sinking into its reflection
In a purple bay. Smoke’s shadow. The rayed
Curve of a finger reaching for perfection.
Whatever churns, bursts, rocks, flies,
Foams, flickers, roils, evades
In pigments of impermanent dyes
We try to fix before it fades
Once I mourned the endless dying
Of here and now, the present always past
Elegized each moment, sighing
Beauty is loss and can never last.
But now I think I had it wrong. In fact
(I learned this from an artist’s eye)
Fleeting beauty reappears faster than we react,
At the speed of a daydream flashing by.
All around, light coalesces into form,
Form explodes into light,
And we live lavishly inside this storm
If we can learn to see it right.
Beauty multiplies, tapering, swelling:
Reshaping, reforming, now familiar, now strange.
This gaudy blur in which we’re dwelling
Is the permanence of change.
Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 8:32 AM UTC
The Siren's song swimming into my ears,
sweetly against the harsh instrumental.
The angelic vocals flood all who hear;
a love of a melody so gentle.
Hair long and dark as the lyrics she sings,
eyes a bold green and skin a soft, pale tone.
A Goddess of elegance beauty brings,
whose talent does her no justice alone.
But nurture does as it will always do:
A son born from such grandeur; a Lion.
The immaculate voice is all but through;
A respite of lull sulks from the scion.
The achievements of song left in her wake;
I'll wait evermore, as long as it takes.
Jul 7, 2015
Jul 7, 2015 at 4:10 PM UTC
A world of fragile things,
where love and dreams and darkness all collide.
Even though this fragile world is tearing apart,
taunted by the shadows, I lie inside myself for hours.
Lost whispers
awaken within me,
like a lullaby,
burning deep inside of me:
"Closing your eyes to disappear,
so afraid to open your eyes.
Safe in the dark, how can you see?
Open your eyes to the light."
She beckons me,
The Goddess of Imaginary Light.
Arms outstretched, awaiting me,
high above the world below,
Shall I give in?
Frozen in my place,
safe inside myself,
I'm still a slave to these dreams.
Why must we fall apart to understand how to fly?
Maybe this time we can leave our broken world behind.
Look past the end, it's a dream.
All just a dream in the end.
May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015 at 9:47 PM UTC
**Beautiful, tragic and short
Who could have known
This is how it would end
Bittersweet memories
Fading and resurfacing
Simultaneously
A moment goes so fast;
A snowflake in a palm,
The evanescence of a kid's thrill
Exaggeration, some may say
But with every intake and exhale of breath
I still take your name**
May 17, 2015
May 17, 2015 at 11:12 AM UTC
Perfect by nature
Icons of self indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world that
Never was and never will be
Have you no shame? Don't you see me?
You know you've got everybody fooled
Look, here she comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder
Oh, how we love you
No flaws when you're pretending
But now I know she
Never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
Without the mask, where will you hide?
Can't find yourself lost in your lie
I know the truth now
I know who you are
And I don't love you anymore
Never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
It never was and never will be
You're not real and you can't save me
And somehow now you're everybody's fool
Aug 6, 2014
Aug 6, 2014 at 9:41 PM UTC
Life
So fleeting
So short
No one realizes
Until they lose someone
That it could all be taken
In an instant
No one wants to die
Even when they are in so much pain they can't move
Physically, mentally or emotionally
They just want the pain to go away
No one has to die to stop pain
Dying only gives it to other people
So even if you are crippled by sadness
Or sickness
Try to keep living
Not survive
But live
Everyday
Appreciate something
The sky
The snow
The grass
Anything
Just to remind yourself
That not everything is bad
The world is fundamentally good
Try to see the goodness
Because
We don't have much time
And we would hate to spend it sadly or angrily
So live
Make yourself happy
You can do
I Promise
Oct 23, 2014
Oct 23, 2014 at 3:25 PM UTC
~How can you see into my eyes like open doors?
Leading you down into my core
Where I've become so numb
Without a soul
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and
Lead it back home
(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I Can't wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
Bid my blood to run
(I Can't wake up)
Before I come undone
(Save me)
Save me from the nothing I've become
Now that I know what I'm without
You can't just leave me, breathe
Into me and make me real
Bring me to life
(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I Can't wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
Bid my blood to run
(I Can't wake up)
Before I come undone
(Save me)
Save me from the nothing I've become
Bring me to life
(I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside)
Bring me to life
Frozen (frozen) inside without your touch
Without your love, darling
Only (only) you are the life among the dead
All this time I can't believe I couldn't see
Kept in the dark but you were there in front of me
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
Got to open my eyes to everything
Without a thought without a voice without a soul
Don't let me die here
There must be something more
Bring me to life
(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I Can't wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
Bid my blood to run
(I Can't wake up)
Before I come undone
(Save me)
Save me from the nothing I've become
(Bring me to life)
I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside
(Bring me)
(Bring me to life)~
Oct 11, 2014
Oct 11, 2014 at 2:11 PM UTC
Breathe in,
My life is within you.
Feel that force in your heart.
This is real enough for you,
Don't be confused.
Stay with me...
Please..
Don't abandon me..
Baby please don't leave..
Don't give up..
I wait for you always.
I promised you,
A promise that I wilt not break.
Don't abandon me...
You belong to me..
Forever and Always..
Even in Death,
Our souls are entwined.
Entwined by eternity's breath.
Of Desire.
Of Love.
Now breathe..
And enter the threshold..
Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014 at 9:41 AM UTC