Along the long, silent halls they drift,
thoughts curling tight like thorned tendrils.
Calm resists.
Walls lean close, sighing with quiet cracks.
A tremor passes through you.
Whispers press in like tidewater.
Yet your roots hold in secret.
You break and the light drifts past,
soft and silent.
Your back, a shoreline my breath returns to,
warm as tidewater held past midnight.
I trace the hush between your shoulder blades —
a silence taught to speak in skin.
The room forgets its corners.
Only the curve of us remains:
two commas curling into a sentence
neither of us dares to end.
My knee behind yours,
a lock finding its key.
Even the sheets have stopped pretending
they’re not listening.
Outside, the moon lingers —
a voyeur of our stillness.
Inside, your exhale folds into mine
like verses learning their rhyme.
In the midst of the ruined city,
A man wanders ,
his face ravaged by grief,
He approaches silently , to the edge of the cliff,
His dreams robbed by desperation ,
His mind unable to bear the devastation
A man once full of hopes and dreams ,
Now he sits gazing into the tidewater stream,
Poverty has overwhelmed his land once abundant,
His existence, now been made redundant
All is lost and the struggle has become weary,
Life has lost all meaning , now dreary,
He contemplates death waiting to embrace the reaper,
With a reluctant step , he flings himself over the cliff,
His journey ends , and the deed is done,
No longer will his voice be heard ,
His final prayer , to once again embrace his beloved.
Swirling vistas of such sweetness found floating through the auspian air ~
Pen to pad calibre idioms beyond the verbs measuring these tidewater inkwells aside
Beauties, evergreen genetives in red, white and pinks, pronounced; Camelots dreams....
Testimonials of daybreak amid the pacific keynotes?!
Her ambient adverb treasures, gently washing upon the shore inside, my thirsting soul ~
These syntax reasonings postulating now their exotic gatherings; stencils
Moonstruck truths at contemporaries point break; subverting the translucent waves
Amplified currents in forms approaching this high tides, ecliptic heart....
Shadows once shimmering their syllables of review; now, a nouns verse!?
Swirling my spirit deep inside this melding aqua paragraphs, seaside melodies; rhymes
In literatures pacific daybreak keynotes ~
Postulating Moonstruck testimonials; syntax reasons floating through the air of this, loves
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...."Comtemporary Romance Novel?!"
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