Solitude

I lie alone
As stars shy away across the sky.
No one touches me,
In my solitude, I am home.

Sometimes I’m drawn away
When one’s adoration leaves me breathless
And fantasies run rampant;
A mind stumbles and reason breaks.

A mind looks on sceptically
As adoration turns into obsession
And pieced dreams shatter;
Complex grows the us in the lust.

Alone I am safe
As stars shy away across the sky.
No one touches me,
In my solitude, I am home.

Fantasy

Languishing in the afterglow of spent desire
Under the heavy-lidded rim of dawn
As sleep eludes and storm clouds ominously emerge
With the wind rising at my back
Invoking whispered dreams of the night before
When our eyes met and the world slowed
Stealing a kiss and breaking away
In star-speckled darkness as laughter took flight
Secretive smiles and a closing chasm
As wandering hands trailed lust-ridden doodles
With awkward grace and keen hunger
While a knowing eye set apart, smiles.

Somnium (Dream)

Your words bring me to my knees
And in the passing of a lover’s sigh
Such sweet sorrow descends as a life is stripped bare
But in place of the faint lingering touch of a lover’s kiss
A soft blush rises as a dream is conjured.

Black Rose

A lone vine creeps upwards
As the seeds of its dark brothers burst forth,
Splicing and twining.

In less than a blink,
Ensnared is my inner self.
As limber fingerlings caress my pale skin
And shivers shake,
While a black rose rises,
Within the greens of my iris.

Its forsaken thorn springs a tear,
That finds its escape only fleeting
In its tantalizing freedom fall.

A Glass sits half-empty...

Tiredness sighs as another day passes me by,
A speck of nothingness struggling to grow,
Alone in the shadow of many.
Hurting to draw too deep a breath,
Lest my will breaks.

Escape is a dream I dream about everyday,
Only lacking the strength to take flight.