Most beloved, 

Why do you wander beyond my reach.

Won’t you take my hand 

So we can face the darkness 

together. 

Some things just go together

Like early grey tea and rainy mornings

Like soft blankets and Carly Simon songs

Like fresh pencils and new parchment

Like chai lattes and a Jane Austen novel

She had the sweetest eyes.

This is what I remember most.

So blue that the great tides wept in jealousy. 

Her smile could warm even the coldest heart.

Her demeanor, pure.

The words she spoke were soft and soothing

As if violins and lyres danced from her lips.

Her mind was filled with all things gentle

With lavenders and diaries. 

Do you know what it is like to live your life

In total darkness?

To not see even a beam of sunlight.

It is maddening.

It is tormenting.

It is hopeless.

But this is how I live in my deep, vast ocean.

My eyes shall never breach the surface.

So I swim with my forlorn heart through treacherous storms.

And in my free time, I sink ships.

So maybe just for one moment I can see a face

Other than my own.

And then they too sink down into 

An underwater grave. 

A writer does no cry salted tears.

They gush jet black ink 

And wipe their pain away

With crumpled parchment. 

A curious creation indeed.

Their beauty, a hoax

To the eyes they feed.

Their “benign” duplicity invokes

A false reality to succeed. 

A question I shall coax

And an answer I do need.

Can plastic flowers hurt you folks?

Its charming appearance mislead

Everyone of us to smokes.

Our eyes are blind to their misdeed.

Their malice portrayed as jokes.

Soon with our backs turned, they make us bleed

It seemed but yesterday you were by my side.

Holding my hand and stroking my hair.

My love for you beyond the tide.

To the mountaintops I will declare.

But I knew I must die and leave you aside.

For a god’s prophecy leaves no spare.

Him first than I, that was certified. 

Out run fate we dare.

“What has Hector done to me,” I replied.

Did I tell you I lost you in a nightmare.

But I would wake and look beside

Until one day you were not there.

To battle I hungrily stride.

We will be together in death, I swear. 

Did anger kill him?

No, my ferocious love did.

My burning heart slew. 

I look up to what used to be a deep blue

Now only to see a bleeding red

The air was sweet and smooth

Now is bitter and dense

I breathe and my lungs fill with ash and dust

My throat burns

My eyes sting

I hear the sky roar

Like a lion proving its might

She unleashes her hellfire upon us