You search for

love:

even now

when our last

morning sky

is laced

with arrows.

You’re reaching

out, the agony

the ecstasy

still beckons:

I wake alone,

thinking of you

makes me smile,

your adolescent

vibe in ageing

body.

Everything

crumbles

we’re flaking

into dust

yet still

you sigh

for silky thigh

& blended lips,

your ever ready

quest, for love.

You crave

her touch

it doesn’t matter

who or why

for an instant

you become

’the one’

& all else melts

to sound bytes.

You shed light

pure gold dust

we bask

in warmth:

You engage

become seen

evoking

perfect

symmetry.

You talk,

talk:

lips move

we breathe

the essence

of passion

light seeps deep

flooding darkness.

Now sun sets

we are bereft

left in lingering

twilight

searching

for a way in

mystified

by

this glimpse

of God

so

human.

I’m invisible

a sea mist

I arise, disperse.

People pass

no one notices

it feels peaceful

when once

every head

turned.

I am nothing:

children seed

scattered

blown into

tomorrow

dandelion free.

It feels like

childhood

when the world

looked huge

how now the

years pile

high.

I drive my

body to

comply

I’m invisible

to you

time eludes

me

love has

never

done me

proud:

I count each

blood red

sunrise

with eternity

on my mind.