I keep you
next to my
soft skin,

close, hidden:

a gold chain
a whispered word
a promise.

You’ve lodged me
deep in your
shattered heart

where I silently
stitch the pieces,

ancient remedies
incantations from
lost Gods

astrological symbols.

We’re travelling
down an unknown
road: the destination

glitters;

I keep you next
to my soft skin
my realm of mystery

till the eagle flies,

a gold chain
a whispered word
a promise.

We’re heading
towards a rising
sun, sea, a life,

a song so velvet

I keep you
chained to my
strong heart

I bind you
to its rhythms,

a gold chain
a whispered word
a promise.

Our love is
versed in magic
tremors

hand touch
fiery filament

I keep you close
to my soft skin

a gold chain
a whispered word
a promise.

Grass is crisp, white,
wedding dress white
fox slinks across the lawn

thankful for the night
he’s left behind.

The crescent moon
is pristine: illuminati:
all I’ve known

wraps me in eternity.

Love is hard to source
impossible to grip
it slips like water

through my fingers,
all that’s left behind
is crushed ice.

I erase the letters
of the year, hold my
head high searching

sanctuary, this errant
spirit soars in flight
I return to myself.


Eight pink clouds
line up on horizon
the ground beats iron

beneath

the horse’s hooves;
my breath spirals smoke
& I again surmise

love is hard to source
impossible to grip:
it slips like water

through my fingers,
& all it leaves behind
is crushed ice.

{Song Victoria & the Heartbeats]

https://soundcloud.com/victoriamosley99/victoria-the-heartbeats-whoever

Like a mountain stream

like a crystal spring

whoever would believe

there’d be so much life between

a powerful will to be

to touch to breathe to see

whoever would believe it    

believe in us.

Like a rising star

like the setting sun

a galaxy unseen

& all the cliches

ever rhymed

whoever would believe

who’d ever think

this was a thing

a touch a breath a dream

so much life between.

I didn’t know your face

or your footstep on the stair

a passing glance

a gaze & suddenly we’re here

whoever would believe

who’d ever think

this was a thing

a touch a breath a dream

we’ve so much life between.

Winter’s on the run

your tears have melted ice

my cries have raised the dead

& all’s been left behind

our bodies seem to guess

the mystery unwinds:

it’s love songs

in the wind

a sugar coated bliss

I never would have known

that it would come to this

whoever would believe

who’d ever think

this was a thing

a touch a breath a dream

so much life between.

it’s love songs

in the wind

a sugar coated bliss

I never would have known

that it would come to this

whoever would believe

who’d ever think

this was a thing

a touch a breath a dream

so much life between.

It’s 4a.m.
& no birds sing

sleep has fled:
you, in your
hot dreams

all boy / man
sprawled limbs
so silent,
silent like the tomb

are far from me.

We had a life
didn’t we?

A love affair
on steroids
a gift from
jealous Gods

a passion
like no other
it burnt me:

it burns me still.

It’s 4a.m.
& no birds sing

you, far away
call me from dream.

I asked you
today, if it had
turned out
the other way

if we’d walked
the aisle all
white froth, old lace

what would you
have missed?

Just what,
in these years
we’ve spent apart

all fourteen now,

would have been
lost to you if our
hands had banded gold?

If we had dared
to live my impossible
wish?

Lived & loved
together.

Tonight you
laughed
a wistful tune,

you laughed
softly
& sadly said.

‘ Nothing’.

At the end
of the beginning
nothing stirs


the past’s
laid out
like a lost map

once vibrant
pulsing, iridescent:
that’s youth

fading.


Decisions made
snap
like branches in the

storm.


You walk in
darkness: obscured
in cloud

we share
illuminated
moments:

At the end
of the beginning
despair lingers,


you grope for
cohesion, I flutter:
a trapped bird

seeking justice.


There is no
answer to your
riddle


round & up
it spirals
an eroding

sculpture
of desire


The answer
is harsh,
disperses laughter


At the end
nothing stirs
the palette

is sombre


yet like a
fool I glitter in
my galaxy of dreams


awaiting morning.

We move through

empty space;

there is no ‘time’

we try to rhyme

our rhythm

align to distant stars

watch kestrel on the

wing for portents.

Love, whatever it is

ebbs & flows

takes us by surprise

there is no reason

to the hormones.

That moon up there

expands to full

another night,

another year

& you,

found me

on a limb

suspended by

the sea, weightless.

You give, I take, I give

a softer way of being

the fox cries

for its mate

while love,

whatever it is

ebbs & flows;

takes us by surprise

a hand to hold

& all of this

‘time’ passes by

regardless.