Haunted Futures

Draconic eyes of anhedonic fiends Annihilate thoughts left during after hours kissing you - thirst kept in ravines drowning the bellows of distant laughter.

Neon lights flicker until twilight dies. What once was a sight of tender presence Now buries the blue of yesterday's sighs But the death of the sun never lessens.

Every moment of charred dichotomy Is a memory that can only leave. The last breath before my lobectomy is the ischemia I could not grieve.

You have become adept at wearing every face except your own. A master of disguise is no expert on the art of joy. Every mask that you wear is another fragment of your heart - until there is nothing left to cut into.

I want to make you laugh so that I can see your truth. But I can see it in your eyes that this isn't who you are. I've always loved purple because of the way it looks when you secretly wear it. Even on days you'd rather be any other colour and any other rugged shape.

Of all the beauty in the world, you're the one I want to catch.

Love is a slow, winding pathway to the astral plains of madness. I want to light up every hidden smile while you study the creases of my soul: an unknown, bittersweet flame. You silence every rumination like air, and I suddenly forget every sadness that has defined the urn of my past. I feel lost in time, sewing the fabric of my own body - drifting seamlessly into nothing and everything all at once. The tangled mess of our beating hearts is an ambiguity that I want to hold onto. You make me feel more loved with just a single, silent look than I ever did with a million rough kisses on an empty bed. I could never understand the miles that you have walked alone in this world. But, I know that I have searched and read every book on the law of attraction - and the answer is still you. I’ll be as patient as a dew drop on a leaf and as soft as a drizzle on an autumn day. I’ll be here to fight the world with you until eternity takes its last and final

breath.