For Eric

By Salty Ships

God's laughter reverberates through us
you and I, two hearts alight with a sickened fire
star-crossed fates and scattered
skipping
stones.

I know your skin only in the unanswered aches of my own
yet I've spent my dreams swimming in your circuitry
opening a network of glass blown veins for the rivers of electricity that construct your thoughts
there is no route that will not reflect in the cloud of your eyes
when every sensitive entryway is stitched with sky-reaching rods of raw neon.

Galaxies ago, a pair of particles sent adrift
entwined in threads of thinning time
there is no place for us here, now
but I keep to the horizon
frantically waving the white flag of my surrender
a signal to say
I am alive and longing
even as the earth turns treadmills under you.

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Copyright 2013 Salty Ships
Published on Sunday, April 26, 2015.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • Maladroit On Monday, August 26, 2013, Maladroit (202)By person wrote:

    This will likely be the best thing that happens to me all day- just fantastic..

  • A former member wrote: Truly thought-provoking piece. Seems like there is something familiar to me here, even though you seem to effortlessly go from ancient beginnings to an unknown destination. & it doesn't take long, does it? Enjoying your works, muchly, Salty, keep them coming :)

  • FadedBlues On Saturday, May 11, 2013, FadedBlues (2172)By person wrote:

    ...ever wandering & weary of it. kinetic & epic...

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