Where I Lay my Head ( Early Valentine Card)

[tectak]

In this room, I lay with loves I met.
I filed away the images I knew
would rise again, like wraiths of raw regret,
to dash my dreams of holding on to you.

You lie beside me as the light disclaims
the greyed out phantoms, fantasies still clear.
Another slips across my recalled frames
and strange, I taste the sweetness of her tears.

Then there was the long and snow-deep night;
another sat upon this bed and cried.
I watched her,naked, in the candle light;
then dress so slowly, leaving me her pride.

I look to where a silhouette still lies;
her name was kept, she never made it known.
We thrashed and threw our passion to the skies;
but when I woke and called her…she was gone.

I damn you for your bodies, ageless, pure!
Why do damned recollections stay so new?
How could I love so long, yet be unsure?
Is this my dream...or are you dreaming, too?

Tectak
Jan 2013