Tony Bush Poet Blank verse

Never Enough

Blue emotions call to me as if they know 
my predilection for memories 
encrusted with indigo skeins. 

I can track the veins 
and arteries of failing, 
the leap of suicidal thoughts, 
entrails upon a railing, 
fencing in my dreams. 

I should take you home, 
insist upon your company, 
in a second I build Rome 
then watch it burn as idle imagery, 
a dream city where I once lived. 

I was only a sitting tenant 
in the parlour of your life. 

It was never enough to keep you 
occupied or in love with me. 

Never enough was all I achieved, 
my hands flickered and died 
and the sand of faith fell through them 
with all I once believed. 

I should still take you home, 
to a place of limitation, 
a time I may look at your face 
and know from your vocal tones 
or something in your eyes, 
I have not lost you completely. 

Forever. 

This is not enough, no never, 
and the bones do not suffice.

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