even in my dreams, I am restless.

you sit cross legged in a silence that surrounds
as the breath slowly gushes around your chest like
a storm of sea-breeze, every wave darker than
the ocean-green color of his eyes.
you reach out and pour a puddle of
ultramarine down into the depths of the canyon
that created in your throat, each drop a shade lighter than
the misty orange hue of his lips.
you stand and stare up into the crumbles of the ceiling
as they dance around the stars in your eyes, each paler than
the whitewashed walls of his cheekbones, while
you carry away your glass of red wine, as it leaves traces
of crimson circling around the circumference of your veins,
each circle holler than the almond shaped squares in his nails.
your life is a round-trip to the moon, and you’ve just taken off.
you feel his halo hooped around you as completion,
you feel his celestial galaxies left behind at your feet
you feel the swaying of his stead around you like an ocean,
there is nothing sweeter than this honeydew defeat. 

The fallen grace of your smile has led me
Into woods, dark and deep
I am reminded of that laugh that keeps me awake
Through long, endless nights when I spin around
In echoes of aching and longing
And wondering where exactly you’re from

I sometimes wish I could spot the date
That you walked into my life, like a needle pin gently
Tipping a point on a map of my existence
Unaware that it touches the crevice that broke it all
Into thousands of pieces, all indebted to you
All wondering where exactly you’re from.

Raindrops that threw themselves at us as we held on
To one another, for dear life, or not,
I never know. Balconies that reflected the lights in the sea
Just as the lights in your eyes dimmed as you held me
Up against the rails

Did you know then that those were the rails of my life?
I cling to you endlessly, your grasp keeps me from falling
Deeper into these woods, these forests
I whisper,’Where is he from?’ into the emptiness
And hear reverberations of the universe as it responds
With only a faint gust of wind

I feel it caress my face and I know,
I know where you’re from
You’re from within, me
Safely seated within the walls of the pulsing arteries
That fill my body with blood and that
Keep my beating heart wondering, in awe, of you
Full circle.

spots of light shatter your vision
coloring it down to an electric crimson
the night fades into a voice of peach
you whisper softly, the softest speech

disregard the arms
that pull you away
drop the fingers that need you

the wind will blow your name to me
and I will catch you, heal you

you look up to the sky and 
decide to fly away
crystals of white and blue and gray
remember to 
forget the world
remember to let those wings unfurl

precision in every move you make
you splatter the black against the walls
surrounding you
they rise and fall
they lift your gaze to the sky.

let me in, tear those soles
run like the wind to a world unknown
desert sand rises up, and blows
like a wave destroying you and making you whole
I cannot contain the words I know
grasp then in your hands, and
Let go

remember to take me with you when you disappear.

I see you stand under an empty willow tree
surrounded by every jewel and precious stone ever to exist
piling up around you, hordes of smiles and kisses thrown
your way, you lift them up and smile
at me. Would I ever leave you be?
Probably not. Although the weeks and days to come
will be empty, I promise you,
I will not be standing here whilst I push aside my wounded
Pride
my ego was born ten days ago and with you
forever now will it live
silly rhymes rush me back to centuries old poets
like a split second in a time machine where I drift through the years
watching you as you fade further and further away
until you’re nothing but a speck in the future
I know I will find you again.
For now, say hello to my ego.

your smile is my warranty
it’s enough to keep me wondering
and needing unbearably to unlock the chains of your beautiful
intriguing mind
you’re a star amongst pennies
and you glow like a winter sun 
on a summer day
the cold warmth of satisfaction
and unyielding unavailability
let the words skip as they trip down those stairs
spiraling down into the black and inevitable
depths of your eyes
the smiling, crying
eyes

carry away your priceless smile
that laugh that shakes the earth as it resounds
through the trees and the skies
shaking the birds as they flutter away
butterflies fail to fly, they fall
and as you collect their beautiful wings
in your jute brown broken basket
you pierce them through the skin in your shoulders
and you fly, away, a multitude of colors
like the glimmering of the sea on a sunny day
or the raindrop as it glistens on a forest floor
you fly

take away your precious stones and hearts
your jokes and empty whiskey bottles
as you gently leave them behind you on the grass,
I wander as I wonder
when you will turn around and see me
cast your eyes down and realize that 
I am the ground beneath your feet
and the stone cold marble steps that appear
as you float over motionless seas,
unafraid and beautiful till the last 
split second step.