You caught me
praying underground...

Before the dawn, I always wake up to find
last night's dreams sleeping beneath my pillow...

The sun has been residing
within my mind this season...

She sat beneath
her rose ice-cream tree...

The ocean awakened
tonight to the rhythm...

She stole Mona Lisa's smile, painted it
with Monet's sunset and hid it beneath...

Broken eyes look heavenwards
trying to find peace within a glass bed...

It was over a decade ago when I left my childhood
beneath quilts devoid of your once familiar...

The day I relinquish the land
I've called home, and the day after that...

You taught me of fire,
mimicking its fury with limbs aloft...

I don't want to write
about our burnt bridges again...

They creeped and crawled,
caressing the cracked earth...