Lexis Affair
The air was disturbed
by wispy soft strings
the tickles uncurbed,
like hummingbird wings;
the beat in my chest
it stuttered a spell
and dared risk a rest,
a moment to dwell.
The stir of his verse
had fractured my breath
and nervousness burst
beneath the great depth;
my eyes came to pause,
my heart came to flutter
all just because
of words none shall utter.
The thoughts that emerged
an enemy force
so quickly diverged
and took their own course;
the tip of a pen,
the roll of a ball,
reminding again
that prisons don't fall.
The blocks of mistakes
with time as a mortar
old dreams can't awake
I'll not cross the border.
First lessons I learn
no need to redo
the errors they burned
more dreams than a few.
A sense of belonging
had drawn out a sigh
a wisp of that longing
I've tried to deny;
The shivers I nursed
for moments in time
caressed by his verse
a rush of sweet rhyme.
I slept with his lexis
and loved the embrace
and woke to a nexus
of strings to displace
but drums of regret
I just can not hear
as moments of threat
still whisper so near.
I hugged an illusion
for feeling I wept
in dreams and delusions
that silently crept;
the hiss of commotion
it shook me to reason
reminding emotion
is personal treason.
It's never that's real
forever that daunts
the rousing I feel
persistently haunts
my wits I can't lose
post lexis affair
alone with my muse,
loose quills in my hair.
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