The trees whisper
rustling, gilded intonations-
spilling secrets like honey
into the productive blue sky.
sunlight lurches through the trees
and cracks my foolish skull,
sending all of the thoughts
I had left alone in there
spilling over the golden
dappled forest floor.
You seep into my periphery,
delicate and half formed
amongst the moss and the earthworms.
I smile at the shadows of
discarded memories;
crawl, crustacean-like,
sifting for something more tender-
Dredging up phantom images
that flutter lazily across my eyelashes
and come to rest in greedy palms.
You and I live and breathe
in the same stratosphere
and I don't quite know how
to let it go.
The incorrigible melancholy
commingle in your shadow
and hold me fast.
I miss you, and the words
twist around my fingers
like a rosary, though
I cannot place them
within the confines
of my silent brain.
rustling, gilded intonations-
spilling secrets like honey
into the productive blue sky.
sunlight lurches through the trees
and cracks my foolish skull,
sending all of the thoughts
I had left alone in there
spilling over the golden
dappled forest floor.
You seep into my periphery,
delicate and half formed
amongst the moss and the earthworms.
I smile at the shadows of
discarded memories;
crawl, crustacean-like,
sifting for something more tender-
Dredging up phantom images
that flutter lazily across my eyelashes
and come to rest in greedy palms.
You and I live and breathe
in the same stratosphere
and I don't quite know how
to let it go.
The incorrigible melancholy
commingle in your shadow
and hold me fast.
I miss you, and the words
twist around my fingers
like a rosary, though
I cannot place them
within the confines
of my silent brain.