Paradox of a Drowned River-Flower
~ a dark love poem ~
You said
in voice infirm,
sight ravished by too
many suns and
glimpsed chimeras,
nothing is forever.
I walked a chained walk
on a scorched immaculacy,
shattered splashes of
yesterday’s innocence.
And I was left with
a sharded sun
black flowers and
severed arms of a dead wind.
With the patience of a sphinx
I waited.
Ate only husks.
lived on errant breaths.
But all those abstentions?
to no avail.
A vanished you
wears me like a shadow.
I want you to
dip me again in
shimmered hope
anoint my cheek with stars
you promised,
together we…
You promised. But that was then.
Let us