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Photo found on Pinterest
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Stay safe
In the confines
Of these walls
Never risk more
Than you should
Cover your blemishes
Lest someone sees them
Hide protected
By what you’ve always done
And whatever you do
Don’t trust…
And when all else fails
Don’t listen
To any of the above
And actually live
©Entirety 2017
Slippery silk truth
Mixed in with velvet black lies
Entangled in more
Than he should have
Held out for
But the way
Her fabric
Felt against his skin
He didn’t care
He’d ponder on semantics
After she was gone
©Entirety 2017
Photo by Rodney Smith
Before the silence
There was a sky
Broader than you or I
Before the stone
There was flesh
Malleable for things to come
Before the ash
There was fire
Humbly simmering
In this universe of unknowns
Before the end of the page
There were words written
Echoing possibility
But before you and after you
There is still me
Tidying the void
In the silence
©Entirety 2017
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His heart took to open water
As the creeping brumous chill
Took over the shore
Breeching the sea
Pushing or pulling
Fleeing from
Running to
He couldn’t say
But this nomad
Was meant to drift
©Entirety 2017
Tossed on my ass
As I tout drunken confessions
About the ways I burned
When I burned
With you
Now tottled off
Knowing no straight line
Would ever do
©Entirety 2017
Photo found on tumblr
In violet dreams of twilight
I burned for an expanse
Broader than touch
Deeper than the ocean
I yearned for love
I ached for exposure
And found the lover I seek
In no man
In no tangibility from this earth
But by the hand of beauty
Something I felt
Beyond my flesh
But rather piercing my soul
So that when touch came
And when love arrived
It came purely
It came as I needed
First by feel
Then by trust
In something more
Than the finiteness of flesh
©Entirety 2017
Photo of a Manitoba Prairie Sky by me
The portrait
Of our love
Hung in the hall
Of sorrows
Our champagne kisses
Turned bitter
Dappled light
Disappeared
From our tongues
To effervesce
In hollow shadows
Of love gone
©Entirety 2017
Photo by Gaetan Lee on Flickr
