heart/key

By slow.burn.star

11:11

I wandered down the sand
as golden morning light  bled slowly over the horizon;

a freshly torn yolk.
burning away the thick white mist.


walking over eggshells
& empty words

 I found your body

 devoured
 & picked clean

leaving only           
              feathers and bones

to be bleached by the noon day sun.

eyes
: hollow






torn from their sockets,

I set them gently
with black snail shells & pearls.

as if to make you see again.

blood throbbing faintly in my fingertips:
widowed and wanton.
I knelt there, remembering the words you once spoke to me
birds faintly crying in the distance
:
.


I whispered into the
dark & early morning
smelling newly fallen rain
that hung on blades of grass
& danced down spider webs
:
.

I wait.

freckles
in the shape of orian's belt
sprinkled down my cheek,
like fallen stars.
I frown

trying to remember
trying to forget
the sparkle in your eye,
a thousand tiny crystals.


It's time to wake up.


you are
eros

 
   {tempest in a teacup}
holding skeleton keys/
to open hearts .  .  .

like


mine.

you made a thousand promises
that burned to ash.
 
every-           hollow-          one -

& fell away, like paper ghosts    
       
                                                    into the wind.

now I'm forever searching
the sky & the sea
all
indistinguishable shades of grey.


alabaster reverie

stars like pin pricks in the sky
I am searching for those moments :
lost
over an endless silver tide.

holding your bones close to my chest,
as if my tear drops could wake

you

back

to

life,

but you
just slept.

I could never seem to tell you
what I really meant,


I've forgotten the light, and lost
every dream.


-        -          -
I whisper still
a dark epiphany







I loved you endlessly
dear,

now please . . .










come back to me.





 


















 

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Copyright 2010 slow.burn.star
Published on Thursday, January 7, 2010.     Filed under: "Poetry"

Author's Note:

I love, i hurt, I have lost. . . I'm sorry.
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  • Magdalena On Sunday, November 27, 2016, Magdalena (615)By person wrote:

    I sat at the side of a coffin for too long. It takes years before it really sinks in, that they don't come back,,, This is a beautiful crushing piece, I don't think love ever comes without hurt and loss, eventually, always.... Wonderful deep feeling writing.

  • carlosjackal On Sunday, November 27, 2016, carlosjackal (3014)By person wrote:

    The loss and yearning expressed here..So unique and candid with much vision. A brilliant painting.

  • A former member wrote: I love this... it reminds me of something I just lost forever; or maybe never had. Hope you get your come back. -Lost

  • OLd SouL On Saturday, May 5, 2012, OLd SouL (734)By person wrote:

    what the... i've been going through your works... very much impressed.. but this... throws me over the edge. you are a favorite now.

  • A former member wrote: Come back.

  • A former member wrote: this is simply beautiful... And painful at the same time.. very well done... ;)

  • Bella Butchery On Saturday, June 5, 2010, Bella Butchery (724)By person wrote:

    buried blue blones

  • ALBATROSS On Tuesday, May 18, 2010, ALBATROSS (197)By person wrote:

    You stole breath between each strophe and replaced it with.. empty space. Gave the effect of a crash, a downfall, that becomes more formidable with each weighty word. Thank you for sharing.

  • A former member wrote: You make a true masochist of me, dear.

  • theXkevorkian On Thursday, January 7, 2010, theXkevorkian (65)By person wrote:

    You pulled me into your world and made wander through every line as you wrote it ... 11:11 was that the time or are you plauged by it too .... Write On :)

  • A former member wrote: for me, its the space. . .. where the pain takes over.. .. . the absolute empty pain.

  • Six-Out On Thursday, January 7, 2010, Six-Out (1435)By person wrote:

    star girl. it's been too long. this left me with that gaping hole in my chest that only you can open. i needed it.

  • slow.burn.star On Thursday, January 7, 2010, slow.burn.star (84)By person wrote:

    I have been posting since i was 13..... and im 25 now.... been years tho.... years... but i just paid for a year, so i might as well start again...

  • slow.burn.star On Thursday, January 7, 2010, slow.burn.star (84)By person wrote:

    *cant hahahaha

  • slow.burn.star On Thursday, January 7, 2010, slow.burn.star (84)By person wrote:

    I cat post anymore... but thank you, i was drunk enough to just do it... I needed to................

  • Honey On Thursday, January 7, 2010, Honey (412)By person wrote:

    My pleasure.Nothing wrong with a good drunken soul cleansing.

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