My ears are still ringing from the sound of your broken heart,
beating faster than thought, caught in your stare, so
encompassing. All resolve is lost as words fall from your lips,
my trembling fingertips held out in question. So shake hands with
regret, set to slip away. Your eyes crossing, rivers flowing
under your pale feet. As the moments count down to flames, meet
and greet death, he wears a cloak of your hopes and dreams,
quenched like the raging fire they were once. You’re the
breath he never found; you are the closed eyes peacefully resting
while those around you are torn to pieces. You’re the smoke
I pull to escape from thought of you. No touch, no shadow cast
into mind, your hand fervidly held at your side as memories of
you flow through mine an empty space more lonesome for what it
has lost. You’re the sunset smile thundering out of a
careless moment, you’re the tightly closed fingers holding
in a breath. If you would stay here with me, one more minute, I
would steal the world.