memories with faint
colors paint her thoughts...
Hiding in behind
the beauty of your own mask...
Why must we always
pretend in order to be...
a mahogany desk houses the letter you sent
a year ago, sleeping under a blanket of dust...
No approximation yet made,
in an endless mental fabrication...
Skies are so grey.
It is pouring inside out...
Life is always having somewhere to go,
and when we have nowhere to go...
you collaborated with silence,
fleeced by darkness, so...
you are a constant. you are light. you are
a wellspring of hope. you are on the cusp...
the absence echoes throughout this
self-inflicted desert, a wasteland of...
time has come to a rolling stop –
for this brief moment...
blackbirds sing the mourning birds in –
and i echo their songs of lament...