Photochrome

March 2016

What kin am I 

You asked
Who are you
Anyway?

Something
Somewhere
Somehow
Intensely familiar

Aggrandised maybe
Larger than life
Larger than you
Larger than me

We hold on
In desperation
Clinging
Pleading even

A minute longer
Let me be
Let me love
Lost in you

For when you leave
Shadows fall
When you go
I do too

Wide eyed
Rapt
Lips puckered
I wish you

Wish you whole
Wish you happy
Wish you in the flesh
Will you with memory

Someday
Somewhere
Somehow 

You will cease

And I will cease
With you. 

Pause in a headlong rush

February 2016

A blur
Familiar
To the
Myopic

Fading
Into grey
Unyielding
Concrete

Rushing headlong
Fast forward
Straight
To the end

And then
A pause.
Breathe.
Hold.

I forgot to exhale
Sentences became longer
Cadence slowed
Ploughed in, snowed under.

One second passes
Only once he blinks
Mellowed, floored,
I live a waltz.

Now mesmerised
Then fearful
I will, alone,
For languor.

Let me rest
I beg, fervent,
Let me savour
Let us be.

The habitual frenzy
Unwills
Makes merry
Skips ahead.

And I wrinkle
Fade faster
Burn brighter
As the last embers

Of a dying sun
That wishes instead

To live. To love.

Brown and Blue

January 2016 

You turn
Your smile
Shards of my eyes

Wave in the wind
Mocking, inviting
A leaf settles.

Brown... blink
Blank
Blue captures

Breeze lilts
Crooning
Careening

You touch
I die
Lifetimes

Are never enough
For eternity
Let me bury

In your warmth
In your shade
In your tempest

And I too
Envelop
Surround you

Madness unparalleled
You & me
Me & you

The pin drops.

The Beginning of Grey-Blue

November 2015

In my grey
Your blue
Washes
Over

Picks up
Tramples
Glorious
Effervescent

Lulls
Mesmerises
Opens my eyes 
New worlds

Worship
Is nonchalant
You devour
You flay

You challenge
You melt
In your love
I'm nought

But putty
Smooth hands
Own me
Decisive, possessive

My river roars
Unstoppable
Careening
Careering

I, a rag
A river in me
Content
To be washed in your wake.