She Would Lay In the Wind

Shadows fell softly
on her velvety kiss.
My first memory of 
this evening...

This troubling illusion
keeps tricking my mind.
Yet, all alone is where I find me.

I remember her coffee colored eyes
when she started to stir.
Hours on end she would 
lay in the wind and smile.

Oh, the secrets keep dripping
beneath the chrysalis crack,
the shell has been broken,
and she's not coming back.

I paint lonely bridges to nowhere,
I write poetry that nobody reads.
I lay on the bank and I always think
it's my crazy mind her memory feeds.

I turn over in this twisted twilight,
to be saturated by an insane rain.
There's not a tsunami big enough
to wash away all of this pain.

So take it easy on my memory,
though the moon is so easily lit.
There's a haunting desire, our moon's still on fire...
I wish you were easier to forget!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Smith Avatar
October 27, 2015 at 10:41 AM
Excellent piece Red !!
Guillermo - Fraser Avatar
October 27, 2015 at 8:14 AM
a tragic ending, I like your shift, its smoothly done! some notable phrases!a7 for me ~Olive Eloisa =`)
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October 27, 2015 at 8:10 AM
I remember her coffee colored eyes when She started to stir - Exceptional visual in this line... And the last line is a killer line..'I wish you were easier to forget '...A deep poem R..I love it.
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