We are shaped from silence.
I am struck by life's upheaval loudness,
We've been sucked into the abyss.
The deterrents proceed to extensiveness.
We're still utterly annihilated and witless.
Floundering about in a foreign land.
Everything happens at a breakneck pace band.
As well as ferocious gusts from the past stand.
Our leading spirits are being ruffled.
I'm puzzled whether they were on guard.
In their gleaming towers, the affluent rare.
For all the immortal soldiers drear
Whatever it scarcely in similar barre
For all the awe-inspiring masses dare
As time goes on, it becomes less austere.
Not in the slightest is it secure to leave?
Unless a dreadful catastrophe deceives.
Written: November 30, 2021
You longer blaze in the summer heat,
You breeze in the autumn wind.
Does my change concern You as much?
***
By what means,
do we clinch the elasticity of Your skin?
By what measures,
do we clench the extensiveness of Your muscles?
To keep You warm,
To keep You here,
To keep You.
Nightfall Surrender
You became a part of me
as I join in and became
a part of you…
rolling along with the waves
you complete me
as I complete you
Soul mates lost
in forgotten time…
subliminally
physically
the ebb joins the flow
in luxurious tides
finding fulfilling delights
You alone fill
my empty spaces,
as the waves of the sea
fill the voids in the sand,
permeating my being
with extensiveness
as no other has before
or since
Tick, Tocks
the forgotten clock
lost in the bliss
of the sensual night…
pulled under
in wave after crashing wave…
drowning quite happily
in your arms…our crescendo!
Then comes the sighs
of morning’s arrival…
as tears anew stain
your empty pillow…
still somehow
your memory
completes me
if only at nightfall
when remembrances
thrive in dreams pleasure
All rights reserved by Debra Squyres @ 2013/2/19
Written for: Cyndi MacMillan"s "My Spice Box" members contest
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