Flamelight

An open window spilled piano tunes.

Somehow, they had a taste of might-have-beens,

A taste of evenings and of farewell.“

- Those Golden Afternoons

“Out of the dark I came to know so well,

That drips into my soul like blackened dew

On snow-white petals withering away,

I rise as visions hold me in their spell.“

from: Vigil (Night Mirror)

“For ages remained separate, apart,

We journeyed closer over starlit trails,

Still unbeknownst to me, you took the shape

Of dreams and whispers, warming like the sun.“

from: Journey Inward, Outward

You’re not what they see, couldn’t show what you were,

Did you even know, as your season unlearned to change,

While tumbling through the strangeness of the world.“

I guard my thoughts lest they engulf them too,

To grind them into nothingness, and fast.“

“When winter fell, so fell another year,
Its weight and promises now part of me.


Brown-golden dimness, deeper sank the night.

Awake and half in dreams by candlelight,
Crayons, snow angels, vistas of the past.
Stone walls with still white lilies standing guard.
White hyacinths atop a book of lore.“

Their moments woven, etched in time.

Erstwhile called the spirit land

Was our home, a glimpse away.

Come find it in the dawning grey,

In midnight’s stillness, twilight’s sway,

And hear then, faint beyond belief,

Unearthly laughter’s silver chime.“

Build a bridge for us to climb

Past the mists that might deceive

We cross the worlds that lifetimes spanned,

Their moments woven, etched in time.“

from: Nowhere, Now Here

“With the path obliterated,

The search for it a memory,

Its remnants thorns and splinters that were shards from the start.

Endings all what tales seem built towards.“

from: Flamelight - Into Darkness

Nighttimes never this endless,

Hope followed suit by its undoing,

When darkness means silence, both within and around,

Once shelter, now shroud…“

And each and every single one a fight,

A sculpture cut from bone, a dawn from night,

And forming them means healing from disease.“

from: Antidote

“Now finally, I know where you will be.

I lift my head and see the star-filled sky.

In countless dreams I saw you soar and fly

Among the stars as one of them, so high,

A wingless flight magnificent to see.

Entranced, you float among their distant songs,

Exalted, far from earthly faults and wrongs.

Your singing joined their endless melody.“

“…Again, your words remain both balm and knife.

As years and journeys led me through their maze
I missed you quietly throughout my life:
A muted sense of loss from early on,
A certain slant of light on wooded hills
At eventide of long-lost childhood days,
The breeze a harbinger of coming chills.“

- from: Missing, Missing

“At first, your gentle words came from a dream,

Faint shimmer of a long-forgotten light,

The way towards you dimmed and blurred with frost.

Surviving deep inside, yet never lost.“

- from: “Journey Inward Outward“

Their speech and silences all feel alike.

Thin with pretence, their surface cracks too soon.

Words fly like stones, their smiles chill me in place,

Honed like the deadly weapons they wield best.“

- from: “Airless“. (from Flamelight - Worlds into Words)

“The more I speak the less I feel I say,

I thought, as no one seemed to hear or see.

With nothing for my hand to hold bur air,

The world around me seemed so far away.“

“Time slips away with what could be the world.

Like slowest drowning, only from within.

Now ghost-like, stilled in endless winter cold,

I guard my thoughts...“