Friday, March 8, 2024

Love, or the weariness of fossils

i’m not obsessed

i’m simply enthralled

bowled over and heart akimbo

a life in limbo

forever and a moment at once

that night i lifted you

like moonlight into my life

and i’ve spent years

bathing in that blueness

naked and scared to flinch or move

for fear it would expire

i’m not depressed

i’m just tired

tired from loving you

that’s all to say

you pushed me into the ground

embossed by your love

into the hallowed mud

of history

bound into a 

stony forever

a mark upon the soul

or a flitting light

bursting into the heavens

crushed into stardust

a brief burst of flame

in an endless night

the rapture of your entirety

now living in my blood

and oil

a root into my soil

i will hold you

longer

than the 

earth

held the 

dinosaurs