To love a shadow
28-29 February 2016
The heart knows
Stories of lovers
Beyond Death
Beyond Time
Beyond pretense of the rhyme
When heartbeats spoke Truth
Jane, Ann, Ruth
I now have no name
No one calls
Like leaf falls
The pitter patter of me
Is soundless echoes
Orphaned hands
They twitch in waking
To lost face
In Time’s sands
History in the making
Legends of disgrace
All is lost
Some wounds never heal
The appeal
Is to heart
For when sadness does depart
Gaping hole remains
Counting tears
Assessing the cost
Of dark fears
That shunned her
Remnants of faded sounds stir
Memories of living
I knew you
Like obsession’s ink
You drove me
To the brink
Inches of blinding madness
As I distilled you
In wine’s haze
I dissolve your thoughts
Brewery
Salvation
Gate to intoxication
You haunt my footsteps
I change skies
Like you change white shirts
Neat and smart
Cufflinks art
Ornaments like my clouds stain
Safe haven for rain
You wipe them
As they settle rust
Tiny dots
Mock Silver
Stain less steel for my killer
While I drench starched cuffs
They pierce me
The gift she once made
Tying ends
Loose nooses
Extremities on same arms
That oft held her too
I throw them
Into winding pits
Of my mind
Eyes now blind
To the spaces in between
What was and will be
I keep none
Cuffs and links oppress
Simple dress
I adorn
My mind learning has begun
To love a shadow
Reading of the poem:
The shadows of my name – Emma Ruth Rundle
Night visions – White lilac
The colour of the night – Lauren Christy
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