Everheart,

Fragmented
you give yourself away
and lose another piece
While you starve
these beasts will feast

Disconsolation proves
Rejection causes collapse
Wretchedness moves
To reside in these cracks

You've been here before
Far from tomorrow
Where promises live
And happiness borrowed

You cry to stop the beating
You scream for an end
But the cycle keeps repeating
And you'll start again

Sweet Gravity

For you I've fallen

At first resisting

But now in passive descent

I closed my eyes to finally dream
But found less than what's before me.
So I gazed through the night
And part of morning's dawning.

If no tomorrow should ever bring
The bliss I knew that night,
I'll remember it with all my heart,
All my soul, and mind

As The End Of Paradise.

~
She leans over the sink
weight on her toes
to applied lipstick
in quick certain strokes,
the way a man signs
his hundredth signature
of the morning.

With lips of convictionless curvature
as the lipstick retracted like a red eel
all day she left her mark
on everything she kissed.
Even the air remarks
like intoxicating news
whispered from ear to ear.
~

Of all the places to find my name
None of these upon your wrist.
A year has passed and all the same
All the lovers remain unkissed.

Of all the places to find my name
The most of these upon the stone,
"here lies" to pretend some shame,
For what sins did I atone?