Lost

[brynmawr1]

So it has been pretty quiet lately so I thought I would put this one up to give everyone something to do for five minutes or so.  I wrote it awhile ago and kind of forgot about it.  It has gone through a few formats and this is the one I like the most, believe it or not.  I put it in basic cause I don't want anyone thinking too hard about it, unless compelled, then hack away.  Almost forgot the rule of putting the title in the post!


Lost

Always
            the broad light pushing
apart our
            shining dome of sky, ringing
vertigo of curving
            horizon; suffered my eyes
in its din of bright.
 
Dim of dusk
            is where I find you
at the end, what
            is there but night
its promise
            holding close, hands
cupped round
            not to smother
but to banish those
            hobgoblins of day
beyond a campfire’s ring.
 

Let the thick dark fall,
            earthen and wet
to blanket us in
            a simple child’s fort
lit, now within
            my sky the blurred blue
of your eyes, my horizon
            the curve of your smile
everything now
            as close as a kiss.
 

How we laugh
            at the parallax,
the shifting perspective
            between
camera one and camera two;
            Time fumbling
about having lost our knowing
            hands still finding
their own way.
 
Scant the warning; that tingle
            on the nape
of the horizon.  Dawn gathering on
            its haunches, hungry
for dreams, again
            dying
on tomorrow’s brightening lips.