naufrage
i open my eyes to the day. it slips in through the bars, the light as soft as her skin and almost as painful.
i feel myself disintegrating and spring awake gasping for foreign air, swollen and still soaked in dreams.
haunted by all the nights we spent with our faces wrapped in gauze.
the wind ripped us from the earth, thunder like a stampede in the stomach of hades.
i turned my back for a moment and you disappeared.
and now i go off searching for something invisible, expired. in suit and tie, i stumble down the street, gathering static under my soul. distended and ready to burst.
the sky shrugs its shoulders and the clouds all disperse, parting before me like the sea.
i'm going walking with your ghost at my heels, foaming. clinging to my ankles, dusting the tracks my steps leave in the sand. i am a million grains of it.
a sleepy vision hangs over these walls. steady, spreading slowly towards me like a quiet flood.
we'll hold hands in the dark. hold hands in the storm, and set ourselves adrift at dawn.
i can't believe it, either.
i feel myself disintegrating and spring awake gasping for foreign air, swollen and still soaked in dreams.
haunted by all the nights we spent with our faces wrapped in gauze.
the wind ripped us from the earth, thunder like a stampede in the stomach of hades.
i turned my back for a moment and you disappeared.
and now i go off searching for something invisible, expired. in suit and tie, i stumble down the street, gathering static under my soul. distended and ready to burst.
the sky shrugs its shoulders and the clouds all disperse, parting before me like the sea.
i'm going walking with your ghost at my heels, foaming. clinging to my ankles, dusting the tracks my steps leave in the sand. i am a million grains of it.
a sleepy vision hangs over these walls. steady, spreading slowly towards me like a quiet flood.
we'll hold hands in the dark. hold hands in the storm, and set ourselves adrift at dawn.
i can't believe it, either.