don’t look for me
while you redeemed
ticket after ticket
to second chances
I counted each stub
as they piled into mountain
ridges, outgrowing the
train treks and metal bridges
distance
Moonlight Serenade
our love exists at gunpoint,
an eruption of adrenaline and cold sweat
with each cock of your pistol
I fall deeper and deeper in love;
you stand, pulling me closer
like the moon beckons
its earthly tides from miles
and miles above the sky
and ever, ever so gently,
you push me, you push me away
Journey
fists loosen, jaws unclench
I surrender my weary soul to
the distance, enveloped
by saffron coloured skies
and strange lullabies
our coordinates resemble
our coordinates resemble
a parallelogram; the way
we position ourselves,
so very measured, distanced,
separated by angles and
lateral lines that shall
always remain unfamiliar,
untouched, yet forever
joined by geometry
Star Gazer
He fell in love with
a star gazer, a girl who lived by
constellations, shimmering
shapes from lightyears away,
her love far-reaching and
universal, lost in the glamours
of the brightest stars, across
Saturn’s belt. And he refused
to interrupt her stare, suspended
on the zenith of the world,
for his love, profound like a
boat’s anchor, would
only bring her down.
.
So he stood, and
gazed at his love, the lovely
star gazer, and wondered if,
in a million years,
the stars ever closed
their eyes and if they did,
would she turn around, and
find him standing, wordless
and waiting, behind her?
Shadow World
I took a step back into
silent repudiation
and bent the
laws of physics
in my mind and soon
we were reunited
between the borders of this
world and the next;
another life in another
universe where we
found each other
in our love and
lost each other
to intangibility.
Game
My defeat consisted of exactly these things:
One nod, one broken heart, and
Sixty seven droplets of tears that burned my hand
When I covered my face
When I closed my eyes
When you became the missing number of my life
When your departure reduced my soul to half its size
.
Your victory also consisted of three things:
One smile, one plane ticket,
One other girl that took you across the world
In order to abandon me
Forever
Somewhere Nowhere in My Kingdom 