slip away

slip away
between the crashing green
where mountains rise
today's eye unseeing
dull from screens and 
expectation
to meet in truth
naked before each day
before the other
to gaze at stars and 
heavenly bodies
wonder-filled and 
possibility heavy
walk beneath a
canopied sky of
stars and glowing flesh
creating worlds like
ancient gods
birthing with
eternal passion
fashioning limbs
and breasts
with loving clay
i will not say 
their name
before i breathe
upon their lips

how long

how long

will you be away

without a thought 

slipped between the 

thinnest sheets of paper 

a treasure for my

rainy day 

you said you'd be back

but not like this

a whisper on a 

Sunday night

it's spring again 

with only
an idea of you 

do not fall in love

do not fall in love

with a child of the past

nor sell your heart to

a memory 

can you see? 

will you live? 

the great rushing 

future 

belongs to you! 

can time be a friend 

or must vision

shimmer like a vapour

silent, faded 

withered up and dry, 

cracked like a forgotten 

boy's bones

alone and empty 

among the old 

men's tombs 

on which the sun 

casts a shadow

of yourself