Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Forgetfulness

I miss you never rolled off my tongue, 
But you have become my every poem.
Of everything gone,
You somehow still sleep inside of me, 
I close my eyes and still call you my home,
Even if it is lost.
I still have dreams of you holding my hand 
against your chest, 
Your heart beating against me, 
Even in my forgetfulness, 
You continue to stay. 
I try to call you a mistake. 
That's what everyone says. 
Head over heart. 
But yours is the only face I see,
When the world's walls come 
crashing in on me. 
No hands reaching in.
This is not a heartbreak.
Yet, you are the kind of sadness 
that never really goes away. 
No, this is not a heartbreak. 
But something in my heart forever remains empty.

Letting the wait pass

Level me with your eyes.  I'm still waiting for you to break down  These walls of silence Maybe there are fragments of broken dreams,  C...