Four Forevers To Your Exile
Forever began the day I fell into your smile.
That was the first forever
the sweet repetition of petals upon petals
Your mind was a gazelle and my mind was a leopard.
Our chase was a dance here and there
Cobwebs are all that are left of you
Of the lines that defined your lips
And the cryptic smile they were set in
That blossomed your dimples whenever your lamps were lit
Cobwebs are all that are left of you
Of The upturned tip of your nose that greeted all my kisses
always was a challenge to the bridge that held your eyes:
And your eyes
were always a mystery to me:
A shadow to the conundrum that was your gait.
they shamed Egyptian queens,
and spoke of unknown civilisations;
In a language so secret
Even love could never decipher.
But cobwebs all that’s left you now
And of the sweet pain, and of the tears and of the sun
I remember you made me a man
After you first made me a child
But I was never man enough
Not even half as much as I was a child
Forever began after our first kiss
When I kissed your tears after your heart bled
Then your lips found mine for strength
But I was no knight
I never could enter the dungeon of your being
I never could slay your dragons that held your heart and soul
The dragons that later took you.
Forever into gravity
Lost in space and time
Cobwebs are all that are left of you
And of all I felt for you
And of the pain you left behind
And it doesn’t matter how many blows I strike with my pen
Hoping these words will reveal our long lost summer
Hoping they would sketch out a memory of you.
I still can’t reach you.
I never could reach you,
not with my kisses; nor my mind, nor my soul, nor my little deaths.
And now, not with my words.
Exile was the tracks our train travelled upon
Me against the world
You against my world
Exile was the path you chose to my heart
Exile was the axis of all that burned in you
And the gravity that held me to you
In a revolution of hope, nothing other than hope
Exile was the frost on your lips every time we kissed
Exile was the crumbs that fell off of your fingers
Those times you fed me
Exile was the third forever
Forever began when all my fears came true
Forever ended the day you ceased to smile
