We were always dancing.
In pretty imagery, in and out of each other’s dreams, in endless timing.
We dance on the slippery grounds of fate, in scenes that look like forever stand-stills.
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Updated 2 months ago,March 4, 2025
i. the lost words.
The cold bites my tongue in one too many ways.
Words float in and out of my head, like construction intentionally built for ruin.
Some annotations left out on purpose here, some letters falling undone there.
Poems kept in cases for you a hundred years over.
Messages in bottles cast far away where they continually sail afloat, never reaching you.
We were always dancing.
In pretty imagery, in and out of each others dreams, in endless timing.
We dance on the slippery grounds of fate, in scenes that look like forever stand-stills.
You never stop swirling through the chill air that I breathe.
I see us waltzing in every forlorn tale of a moving story.
I ask to see my reflection through deep, thick snow and clear hanging icicles.
I do not get very far, so I continue walking the uneven path.
It is cold down here, yet my thoughts are strangely warm.
I guess nostalgia feels warm.
Reminding myself that love is warm.
I have more questions than answers, and in other instances, I have answers before knowing the questions.
Mixed thoughts of commitment and missing you and whirlpools of emotion waft through my blue air.
Of missed chances, broken promises, simply giving up before our time.
Of wild explorations, young loves blossom, of the tide that keeps bringing me back to you.
The wind blows and blows.
The wind blows and blows and blows until it stops.
I am feeling better here.
In love and light.
In your welcoming arms.
I can breathe now.
I can live now.
For a good long time.
the stars upon water.
Rock hard yet still delicate to the slightest touch.
Life lost and found and grown anew.
Light, lingering emotions now steady as the night that holds the moon.
It takes us looking into frozen water to see the light.
It is a magical sight; the stars upon water.
I thank all of the stars even in the starless nights, for you.
