In His Flickering Eyes
It was like she expected the sun to rise
In his flickering eyes
And his cooling limbs to come alive
Like a puppet on its strings
Though the sun was scorching overhead,
The air was thick with words unsaid,
With his t-shirt quickly turning red
As she rushed to clip his wings
But she couldn’t hold him tight enough
Or bring him back with words of love
As his spirit flew off like a dove,
Leaving her alone
With dead-weight crumpled in her lap
And the sunlight nudged behind a mountain cap
She kept him cradled in her body’s trap
Desperate to never let go
(2012)
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