between lost lovers, between stylized flowers
So I paint you with sudden strokes, it feels like a lifetime
Completing you with me. It must be a holy sign,
It must have been radiant water, radiant earth
That gave birth to you and me, the way we fall
In each other, get born again, to worship the ground that you walk on.
To look at grace, to look at the outside world losing face,
To see faith becoming you, stretching itself across your canvas, so lavishly, the indecisive one
We paint, like mile-wide fisherman’s clothes shivering,
Like salty sun-kissed wind.
To look at you sketching painted pink and stretching green,
While I rise out from beneath you, looking
At you on the breeze-covered coast, just at the point where dawn breaks, it’s as if
Your skin is bathed with silver, there’s dark green and white hanging
Out your back, the image of tranquility, the perfect peace I have known.
It gets darker.
I call you silently, you are dusky skin and you are glowing, glamorous
rise from your stillness, sprawled across a low, white bed
across sullen waters. The kind you love, the nothing we need
to be all day.
the series you etch, it’s on frozen glass,
I watch you silently, rising like a sea creature long thought gone.
calling out to you, the fog horn, the sigh that makes you come.
This incredible feeling today, this soaring of the wind as I rise for you from inside this sparkling ocean
I could swim to the surface and see you translucent, blurry, and I could
Wash my lungs with air, not knowing what would poison me
I could die with it and I could die in your arms,
Glistening silver in the dark. I could die, and I would search for you the next lifetime,
all the same. It’s all the same to me.
Divine and timeless,
the search would go on, the echoes of dead stars and bright scars
Following endlessly. Sun after sun would revolve back and forth.
The warmth of watching your intensity, the gifts of life after life, building together,
Body parts vibrating rapidly, feeling this experience, like logs of raft tied together.
And so we are.
(poem by: last minutes light, sketch: she who must not be named :P)
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY EVERYONE!!
