The hand of darkness

Swallowing me whole

Time leaves no trace

Perhaps we were never

Two souls beating in tangent

Urgency flooding veins

A build of want till

All is naught, begun again

My hand outstretched

Your mouth, oh your mouth

Red for pressing closer

Embrace loss before she damns you further

Every day hence

Your eyes in my head

The shapes of trees bending against wind

I ache within myself

For your solace and brand of hurt

Like match struck on earth we burn

Fumes and fire, the careless touched by scour

Here you left your mark my breast bone

Exposed to cold, your lips devouring skin

What colors we make unknown

As moon is echoed in deep dark water

I am restless, destroyed, parched

Without your sustaining force

The weight of your need, absorbing air

They say no one feels that long

We all give in to loss eventually

I turn in my mind to the memory

Only yesterday, only now

Slow removal of touch, still the impression

Like shadowed dream crosses from one place to another

I follow

When you are lost

I uncover

The hide of us

Secreted in promises broken

Still the shards of glass glitter

I see you hold one to our throat

I see you cleanly slice us through

Division and sewn for next season

Deep in fecund earth I stay

Your taste on my lips, your smell infusing

For I am a thing of your interest

Existing when you create

The words whispered in darkness

Come here, come closer, stay

Oh stay …

26 Replies to “Stay”

  1. So, this is why I love poetry and how one can weave words into doing what they want them to.

    “I ache within myself
    For your solace and brand of hurt
    Like match struck on earth we burn
    Fumes and fire, the careless touched by scour
    Here you left your mark my breast bone
    Exposed to cold, your lips devouring skin
    What colors we make unknown
    As moon is echoed in deep dark water”

    This is superb, Candice. The ending is amazing.

  2. Let go deep desire?
    Forget what enfolds?
    Touch that both feeds
    And consumes, utterly?
    What fantasies are those?
    When the only want is
    Stay, just stay?

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