When Love Is Merely Mortal.

When Love Is Merely Mortal.

Watch as I deteriorate,

into a living corpse,

disassembling from

love's  cruel denial.

My hair an extension

of my disarray,

uncombed, uncared for

why bother?

my two lips

now a Sahara 

without the oasis

of your kiss.

Eyes vacant like Poe 

wandering the

alleys of Baltimore

mumbling tragic dirges

to a love now lost

Stenos-is of the

spine bends me in grief

I lie in a fetal curl

my joy a wail 

for my baby 

long gone

your arms no longer

hold me up

on love's pedastal

I grasp only air

and suffocate

as all hopes tumble 

without you.

My heart is an

echoing chamber

where your last words

syncopated between beats 

bounce endlessly

in its empty chambers

My soul is wingless 

empty hope in my chest

my legs have no

desire to carry me 

to anyplace  once

shared with you.

So I lie in repose

on a half rumpled bed,

acres of sheets

mark where you once lay

and your perfumed pillows

like tumbled tombstones 

of white only remind me

of what is now 

dead to me.

Only you are

my antidote,

to staunch the

bitter tears,

and the the apathy,

but your heart remains 

is a vessel drained

holding no compassion 

for my endless agony

and  gluttonous thirst

for you and only you

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A Thimble Full Of Soul-lutions.

Love is simply

stronger stitches 

in the fabric 

of two hearts

torn by other

relationships

gone awry

It binds them together

with threads 

of hope in a 

very lonely world

Joining two in 

patterns of joy

and the warm coat

of two becoming 

as one

After the strings

of past relationships

are severed

what was tattered 

and worn is renewed

If a tight knot 

is formed at 

the beginning,

it secures 

love's tailor-made 

dreams into 

a most beautiful reality

it is a thimble, 

painless solution

that creates the 

intricate weavings

of two souls 

being rejoined

to the velvet

embrace of love

redressed in splendor.