We don't forget.

We simply cannot.

We lay awake at night,
our eyes closed
but our minds opened
reaching out for each other.

Nearly reaching
but not nearly enough.

-

I awaken.
Alone.

Her heart lay in front of her
exposed for all the world
to peer at
to see

Silence fills the house.
Not a creak
not a peep
Just the sound of my heart
beating
sounding out
to find you.

Breathless

My heart aches out in the night
for your touch.

How much has been left unsaid
in the short waking hours
in which our souls tangle
and weave
until departing
into the darkening sky.

Tonight,
I lay hear
breathless.

Down this Road Alone

The silence fills this house
like something fierce

and yet
all I can do
is listen
and hear your voice
booming through
my hollow bones

And yet
All I can do
is sit here
waiting
for when
you come home.

On Giving Up

Seated on the edge of the Earth
With nowhere else to go.

The words they spoke
branded on my arms
like a badge of a tragedy.

And there is nowhere left to go from here.

Oh,

how the fire burns 

me

How the fire 

licks at my skin

like a feverous 

animals.

How I am lost

within

the flames.