poetry

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words leave my side, as you join mine

you hold me up, turn me over, see my every shape

I unravel, a long cord pulled til you find me deep within

I'm happy to tumble in your arms

you blink, and I feel still

there's silence when I look in your eyes

it means so much from you when you show

and your skin blooms and glows and sighs

sounds dance, clap, boom and swing

life seeps in to the air around you

I'm pinched, stroked, swept and spun

how can I be without you?

I like to try and understand the pieces that fall into place

where my limbs shift, click and squeeze into yours

I'm opening slowly to your embrace

and knowing why I love you

[11/24]

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I pull the sun across the sky

I watch the shadows sidle across the land

I see the people moving down below

Following the light

Don't they know?

In the dark is when we dance

We throw our arms up

Shake loose the reigns of our chariot

Stamp and clap and let peals of thunder crack along the sky

We join hands and quicken our step

Brew joys in the depths of the dark

And hold the night in our embrace

[11/24]

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They never lasted; 

the soft wrappings of my emotions would degrade, 

flaking away bit by bit with the tides of my thoughts until I was left with unoccupied space around the word I had ascribed to them. 

I have felt it creeping into and out of my consciousness for a while now, 

like a dripping tap slowly filling a bucket until the water has nowhere left to go and spills out over the edge.

[08/2024]

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I feel it still - 

The rough paving stones beneath my feet

The muggy warmth of a sun, half hidden by clouds

The thick, icy airs between us

Suspended, yet half dropped by choked out words and muted green gazes.

I hear it still -

The way it swims out of your mouth and brain, 

Ringing like the impact of metal on stone,

The dull pad of steps on slabs

Softened nothing for me

[05/2024]

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