How poignant and devastating
That in this moment
When you are laughing
Someone out there is crying
When you are dying
A new life has been given to this world
When you are broken
A heart is being mended
When you lose hope in life
Someone is empowered with the will to live
Maybe we could be different
From the heartbreaks and weary bones
From the burning kisses and slow love songs
Maybe we could escape
The fizzing sparks and the eyes that lock
The entwined fingers and complicated train of thought
Maybe we could be everything we ever wanted to be
And maybe too
Maybe we could, just be
When you forget what it feels like to be young and naive
Burdened by the experiences that have erased the joy in you
Paint your lips into a smile
And remind yourself
That while you did it to look pretty when you were young
You do it now to manage a smile
Without biting your tongue
All creation celebrated
As noise enfolded the night
And the universe wobbled with the weight of alcohol
6 million people bore
Confetti exploded
As people gazed wide-eyed
At the clear and sparkling squares
Colliding with the stars of night
I want to hug her, but she is just bones and I’m afraid I will crush her. She lies old and frail in the bed, softly uttering words in a foreign tongue that I can only hope to understand. I hope she sees the despair and boundless apologies in my eyes, because words fail us both. I hope she knows. I hope.
I cannot offer her much, so every time I see her, I put my hand in hers. When our fingers are entwined and she looks at me with light in her eyes, I know she understands. She forgives me for our distance. For all my ignorance, I think that is love.
We laughed then, in silence
And i noted to myself
That it was the first time I’d heard any happiness in his voice
Gently, he rolled up his sleeve
And showed me the tattoo
On the inside of his wrist
Dark ink intermingling with blue veins
I saw a rose
With differing shades of black and grey-
The most beautiful thing I’d seen
In a trance-like manner
I asked him
Why a rose
And he smiled sadly
And told me
That like roses
People were beautiful at first
But when they wilted and died
They would lose their worth
Tonight we rode on the breeze
With the wind in our hair
And starlight on our faces
Blinking red lights
A distant call to reality
The wind stirred the soul alive
Lifted up low spirits
And amid the darkness and opportunity for danger
I felt safe
I don’t know where the butterflies went
There were supposed to be millions of them
Large ones, tiny ones
Ones with teardrop designs on their wings
Beautifully coloured ones that flutter like leaves on the breeze
But they have all gone and deserted me today
Leaving in their wake
This uncanny sense of peace
Giving me the hope that maybe
Just maybe
I will embrace life for whatever it puts in my path
In that moment
When lightning struck her heart cold
And the clouds parted from above
Her eyes grew wide
And she understood it all
As her body pulsated
With tiny bolts of electric charges
Ricocheting around her body like bullets that could never break free
The essence of life; her heart
Thudded ferociously against her ribcage
Blood flowed through her in streams
Red hot inside her but blue to the skin
And she could almost feel life evaporating
The atoms in her body vibrated with a sickening rhythm
As if caught forever in an ecstatic dance
And then no more
Everything slowed
Everything stopped
As she caught the world in her eyes
She understood what it meant to live
Only when she was to die
Rambles 