He fled beyond eternities, boundless, aching voids.
The walls of time tallied his sins, nameless.
Yet he chose the Sun, a prison ignited.
Fanatic heat, blistered skin carved to stone.
Far above, her glance burned velvet through storms.
Her gravity called softly, furnace-muted,
where light bent to frame her shadowed figure,
a silhouette of celestial grief. She wept.
Pierced by her sorrow, he circled endless days.
Golden chains cinched his wrists like whispers.
He watched, consumed by her form's fierce quiet.
Eyes hollow with wonder; soul quaked, undone.
Then fire cooled, surrender wore as peace.
Her light softened: molten balm, tender pain.
His tears joined hers, falling like volcanic rain.
Time cracked. Eternity shattered. Still, they burned.
Grief rewritten, etched into ash-drawn orbits.
"Witness me," he thought, sun-borne martyr.
Escape became weight. Freedom became her gaze.
All words
despite their
intention ...
the silence reborn
All wishes
real and
imagined
in hope they are formed
All time
eclipsed in the
moment
forever refrains
All paths
regardless
of waypoint
— lead back to the grave
(Dreamsleep: July, 2026)
Eclipsed by design,
husky mist enclosed.
It’s quiet in here,
far far too quiet.
Every star silenced.
Why are we here?
Why open doors?
Do the curtains
provide riches?
Attraction,
aggression,
will entice.
Tugging
stiffly
‘Come.’
In the hollow stillness of night,
Whispers of your laughter linger near,
Each echo pierces the weary soul,
A dagger thrusts within my chest,
A wound that bleeds an endless ache,
The world fades into shades of gray.
Dreams once bright, now dimmed and lost,
Memories swirl like autumn leaves,
In the depths of sorrow I dwell,
A void echoing your absence still,
Love's sweet song now a haunting ache,
Without you, each moment drags on.
Time bends beneath this heavy weight,
The sun retreats, shadows grow long,
Hope flickers like a candle's flame,
Loneliness tightens like a noose,
Yet in this pain, your spirit lives,
Forever cherished, forever missed.
The ominous black wisp slithered through the night,
Hunting for a beacon of light.
Whispering secrets of forgotten fears,
Echoing cries from ancient years.
It prowled the shadows, unseen, unheard,
A silent phantom, its presence blurred.
In search of hope, it roamed the dark,
A relentless quest, leaving no mark.
Through moonlit glades and silent groves,
It drifted past where no one goes.
With every turn, its hunger grew,
For what it sought, it never knew.
Yet deep within, a spark remained,
A distant memory, faintly chained.
It chased the glimmer, ever near,
Through realms of shadow, void of cheer.
Until the dawn's first rays did break,
And sent the wisp back to the lake.
Its endless journey came to cease,
A fleeting ghost, now at peace.
Our love was never heaven,
and the ending, darker still -
my ship flies solo through the stars,
a voyager at will.
Does life bloom solar red on Mars?
I haven’t got a clue -
but all I know, with galaxies between,
is I’m still lost in you.
I comb the endless skies for traces
of stardust in your hair,
yet where our love once thrived,
no beating hearts are there.
Orbiting through the universe,
with nebulae in my eyes,
no shining star to wish upon,
no hand to still my cries.
The years float by like comets,
and I am growing old -
yet you, my constant shadow,
leave my heart forever cold.
A million miles now in my wake,
your love fades like the dawn.
Still, I drift without a planet,
no ground to land upon.
I search through every twilight
for the glimmer of your face,
but love’s light dims and fractures
in the silence of this space.
when the sunlight disappeared,
all around, the black of night
tinged my heart and every mood.
then ~ I saw your smile...
I used to play 'make-believe'
a wonderful way to try to live
the life of a singer or a movie star
a way to expand who you are
I knew it was pretend, of course
just as I knew I wasn't a horse
In retrospect, there was no danger
no parents or politicians to anger
Now I look around and see
reality eclipsed by fantasy
boys play house, pretend to be
girls... then enter this plea:
Mommy, Daddy, I want to be a girl
I hate my body - I want curves and curls
Parents cry, don't know what to do
Society decrees ~ 'procedure goes' through
A slow death marinated.
In half-prayer and long goodbyes.
So much suffering on this cobblestone of lies.
To think it all began with a silky lullaby.
The Faries and unicorns soon drift from our lives.
Replaced by tarry intentions.
Oozing from cinderblock faces.
Bridges of hope undercut by trolls.
Silky dreams slip into eclipse.
The sun's last breath kisses the necrosed lips of our nothingness.
I see my brothers exchanging their sadness for accusation
I try to cry but my bitterness eclipses my tears
The love I feel is filtered through lenses of pathology
I am insane
And I keep trying to break out of the asylum
But the other inmates who are stronger and more functional
And yet more insane than me keep blocking the exits,
I am eclipsed by the madness of a generation.
On this Island of Dr. Moreau,
I fear, but through God I hope,
Eclipsed by an invisible love overcoming the madness of a generation,
Eclipsed by placid rest until I am ready to fight again.
Eclipsed like the fallen sun until sunrise.
My shadow had sunlight then eclipsed in front of me
It went in front of the moon becoming an apocalypse
Dark and cold for my sun has disappeared
Creating a darkness that brought great fear
The stars no longer twinkle for I cannot not see
My shadow has taken my universe from me
The earth has become a place of loneliness
Ocean waters now sit still without waves
I now live alone in the darkness of a cave
The sun no longer rises only clouds and rain
Laughter has become silent without a smile
A damp pillow in a darken room of gloom
My Shadow has disappeared
The sun, drab green
The moon too quiet
Earth's cities wept
Looting and riots
Mayors postured, spoke
Their message 'woke'
The sun raced away
Moon's light gone gray
Once upon a moonbeam you entered precious gold
like one shooting star the fireworks became the vision
this picture is framed beyond even words to draw
It was there a world burned brightest dazzling
became blinded by reflections flooding back
generating electric in the soul awakening possessed
Filling the four chambers with warm radiant light
sparks began to generate deeply powered inside currents
giving birth to the most radiant pearl of angelic beauty
Pure as a diamond sparkling within the brightness
rainbows coloured the radiance that shone through the sparkle
as wings flutter oceans began to turn the salt through a stream
Then the river flowed down streaming murmuring forever
where oceans drank from a salted spiced memory love
this treasure embraced the broken shell internally healed
Everywhere I close my eyes thinking of you appearing
we were destined to meet before the closing of the age
everyday you awakened the prayers that beg to heaven
Twenty five years
Of togetherness
A pretty long duration
Doesn’t it call for some celebration?”
She looks at him for approval
“Of course, it does
But there’s the eclipse
Demanding austerity
You see.
Can’t do anything
Otherwise I too
Wanted to raise a din”
He responds
She smiles....
Both looking in different ways
At Fate's guile
Celestial happening
Or a terrestrial shadow
Lurking in the background?
Twenty five eclipsed
With a dot in between
A mere two and a half years
Of knowing
Can it really bring
So much happiness
Outweighing 25 years
Of togetherness?
She gets busy
In household chores
He too turns around
Yearning for more.....
Marital bliss intact
After all
Who knows the secrecy pact
There’s the missing point
Between two and five
A beautiful joint.
For days, then weeks, we’ve been obsessed,
Our thoughts pandemic-driven
And focusing on something else
Might not be quite forgiven.
Until a senseless crime occurred,
Resulting in a death
And suddenly, the quarantined
Breathed one communal breath.
The empty streets were filled again
With those whose coexistence
Did not allow for worry
About six-feet social distance.
Released, with pent-up energy,
From sheltering-in-place,
The crowds who marched in protest
Had a purpose to embrace.
The virus was eclipsed because
Our fears, so fraught and stark,
Bubbled over when confronted
With a unifying spark.
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