Your head moves under hot lights
thrashing
a passion as you open your mouth wide
roar your words
small teeth, thin lips
skin colored by strobes
I want your impulse
your brave furious eyes
your mad flung acrobats anger
it’s the addiction to throwing aside
caution
striking out like match on ink
permanently marking your stride in heat
I watched you take a whole roomful
swallow them whole with your flame-thrower energy
spitting them into stars and tilting laughing
as they adored you and didn’t know why
your mercury vapor left them reeling
clasping my hand in the car with headlights off
driving blind down blurred country roads
inside me with urgency born of
thunder and trees struck silver
firing in strange shapes of want
it felt like flying, I grabbed a tuft of you
spun like a catherine wheel in your orbit
time was fast and everyone watched as
we climbed buildings in our wonderlust
they’re crazy, they’re so in love
they’ll burn out, they’ll extinquish each other
we never did
not until the key stuck, didn’t turn around anymore
rusted and tired of pushing wooden horses
tired in their paint and festoon
oh I would have made them well again
as I did you
just for one more shivering impulse
riding your coat tails as you took in
the capture of your swell
kissing me beneath table tops
our faces glittering from thrown aside masks
hands reaching, climbing up skin
dance of thundering hearts clamoring to be
still
as you lay now, white out, no sound
I dance contorting to cause a smile
there is none
only a wick, half used, half submerged
in waxen reproduction of what was once real
give her back!
give her back!
I yell at rooms without inhabitants
tables missing their chairs
windows containing no view
your fingers trembling in mine
if I could have
I would have
made us one
save this image; a kiss lasting past quitting time
you pull away and reach in again
no ending, just softness
a song we live inside
calling us home
there we go
hand in hand
through the vapor
vanishing
Love all your lines, but how our faces do glitter (as you say) when we find that one person where we can throw down our mask 💐
You are so lovely thank you so much dear one
No, you are the lovely one, I’m just the old grizzled Viking descendant that adores your word, but struggles to understand your anguish. 💐😀
Don’t undersell the Vikings dear one, they’re the original brave souls.
Haha that’s why I’ve always attracted controversy 😀🙏
Such blasting, blooming energy, working its way slowly through to the inevitable parting. Well done. I especially loved this: I watched you take a whole roomful
swallow them whole with your flame-thrower energy
spitting them into stars and tilting laughing
as they adored you and didn’t know why
But I don’t know why I say that, because I loved the whole thing.
You are a bit brilliant you know that? One of these days you and I are going skiing together that’s just going to happen
captures the glorious madness of desire and the horrible pain of loss on multiple levels
My friend you ‘get’ me in a way that’s uncanny
love and pain have a unique language that few people speak
Makes me feel less singular knowing we can share that and understand
I, as well, 🙂
Madness divine, then inexorably slipping away, leaving hunger and memory.
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TheFeatheredSleep – It was a beautiful madness, love without limits save for one.
I love this, Candice…
A wondress madness, something we should all aspire too!
Thank you so much dearest Orville and most of all for your reading what I write it matters and helps so much and I am so grateful to you
Such tangable passion!
Thank you so much dear one
The mad dance of love….
Ah so it is! BTW I know you don’t watch Wentworth because you have TASTE but I am so addicted I think I’m getting an Australian accent! 😉 xo
Bi crikey, mate, that is bonzer 🙂
Hahahaha!!!! Brilliant!!!!!
🙂 🙂 🙂
Beautiful story, despite what feels like somewhat of a tragic ending.
Sorry about that! I did want to make it less tragic but that is the way it seemed to go. I appreciate your patience with my maudlin stuff!
Au contraire! The story goes how it wants to go, and you write it beautifully 😊
You’re a bit terrific my friend 💓
Thank you kindly, my friend. I appreciate that
Glorious passion and love! Wonderfully written. 🙂 “save this image; a kiss lasting past quitting time” The best kind of kisses.
Susi are you on FB? Because there’s a few good sites on there I would add you to if you were xo xo
I am! Pls share the links or invite me.
I tried to find you, maybe you’ll have better luck? Candice Daquin 💓
I PMd you on FB 🙂