Memories crawl out
This quiet night survival
Takes you to the edge

Divided we fell

Across divides
Bridge the gap
Cross the chasm
Bring it back
Step out across
Hold out hands
Surrender all
No demands

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My stomach growls
As I sit looking
At your last message
Hoping it will fill me up
With something
Other than emptiness

Drowning in words

Wallowing
Like treacle
Sticks
To my legs
Pulls me under
This sickly stench
Of iron blood
Makes me retch
Stop the voice
In my fingers
Silence me
Fill my lungs
Before I call out
Silent screams
Of daydream nightmares
Always
Remains unanswered
Can you hear
No
Just my mind
Playing tricks
Again
You were never there.

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Sit in close darkness
Alone with your last warm words
My heart still beating

Not for me

Not for me
That moment’s bliss
When finally again we kiss
Not for me
The words you wrote
So deep inside my heart they smote
Not for me
Those loving eyes
That still I am enraptured by
Not for me
To hold your hand
And guide you through this foreign land
Not for me
Yet if I try
I’ll live today, though heart has died.

Needled

I scratched you deep into my skin,
Felt the blood as I soaked you in,
From the memories I hold within
You’re leaking out; the mirror stings.

A Debt

Such a debt owed
Is never repaid
To know love
And the pain of its ending

The circle completes
Silence turns luminescent
All becomes nothing

Honesty among friends

“Are you well?” he says.

“Yes”, I reply.

But nothing could be further from the truth.