Irreversible

Tuesday, March 12, 2013


 
She slept in the hollow of his side,
The bend of their bodies matched:
Two twin concave crescents,
Breathing in sync.

In the air, the essence
Of something irreparable:

A shattered crystal vase.

The sudden realization
That you can’t deal back change.

Moments before, she sang to him,

Come in to me and I will open as a rose,
Palms outstretched in sacramental ceremony,
Submerge you in undulating chambers
Of crimson memory.
I’ll let my cold premonitions
Recede into temporal bliss,
Where “forever” is a hollow promise
Spelled in sand and played on
By changing winds.

Come in to me and you will know
My charcoal nights.
Hold me.
Stay a while.

In moments, soft,
Always your ghosts trailing ten feet behind.

--Alicia

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