U-shaped...

What do we do when the heart is torn out
When there is nothing left but a u-shaped void

Let me once more touch you
let me stretch across the vastness
and caress you
let me reach in and hold your heart tenderly

For I long to see myself again in your eyes
and shower in your giggles

For nothing and no one fills the u-shaped void
the wilderness memories, the vast, unending starkness
of life without you.

Existence

If not my love
then my friend
If not friendship
An acquaintance
If not an acquaintance
Then mere existence
For
without you
life is not living

but with you...
life unfolds
reveals its full joy.

Revealed

A drapery diaphanous
she flows
through windows open
slowly billows
And though beautiful in calm...
through breezes her strength revealed
a kinetic, moving grace
yawning, draping, whipping, gaping
she flows
loved, cherished, adored.

Let me hear you

To hear again her voice
tower carillon over blue covered miles
And though fear from unknown creeps
my heart leaps, skips beats

And in her words
her sun-ray warmth beamed
bathed and melted
pouring over her
like molten chocolate
all that is me

To hear her voice again.

A Rapier

Rapier
slender,
steely, swiftly
plunged deeply
where no one had touched, to its hilt you thrust,
embedded...
and then,
silently, without a whisper, finishing the deed,
withdrew the dripping blade
And left me to hemorrhage
our tourniquet friends to mend

Nothing

Tossed.
Trash.
Waste.
Rubble.
Mistake.
Worthless.

Nothing.

Never.

Shards

Shards of glass
shattered long ago
Lie upon my floor
Most swept-up
...all but the smallest
Yet a daily
stray cuts me
And again I bleed

and yet, not to discard
I pick them up, the shards
and though not a cup they make
piece them together,
time's glue holding
and the sun shining through a window next
refracts and throws a rainbow.