Black hair, sifted through my fingertips
Your dark eyes, meeting mine for the first time
Muscling in green clad love and rocks
Seabirds and saltiness stain our spirits
Which laugh in unison at the
Absurd, glorious choking and loveliness
Of life and how well-spent
Bend time in two, fold and rend
Until the sea overtakes your love
Drowning her and keeping vigil For her
Disappeared without yourself
Pain floods my head when I think
About desire
Not true Desire
A jeering and impossible echo
Stealing me away from reality
From you
My head splits, torn between an imagined past
An unlikely future
Noise, tear and render
Fat and tallow bubbling
Underneath the skin
Glistening with blood
Honey, poisoned with your tears
Raised wild and bright from the killing fields
Horses run reckless and riled
Sent from the depths
Of the sea inside
Heart turned to sepulcher
Mind turned to tomb
My thoughts doomed to uncertainty
Within uncertainty
Within hesitation
The truth lies
Every twisted word
Every longing glance
Betrays the Real
Devotion bound to emotion bound to indifference
Stomach churning images of lust
Bloated and razed like my mind
Acid sex giving way to
Smooth mind and body
Knowing transmuted into suffering
Sublimate my soul for your body
Lingerie stained with red wine
Delight in the poetry of life and of love
Delight in every early morning and late night
Candlelit vigils to your perfection
Sufi wine and omelettes served with birdsong
Using stolen words to describe you
Stealing from greatness to describe you
Even greatness isn’t able
