Verse of Longing

The early sun nudges me away from you

But where am I going to go?

Your resolute fingers clutch mine

Like a baby dreaming away

Waking before you and watching you

Feeling your breath

Remembering the old, loyal falcate moon

And the love in its light we gave each other

Now that you've rolled your eyes

And moved your lips, reaching for my name

My world's autumn

My heart's bliss

I clutch your fingers back

And still, I don’t say -

" If only I could be

By your side

In your love

For all mornings to dawn"

Before Everything Ends

Just for a few more days
Let me have a few more hours
A few more moments
Let me soak your beauty
To whose serene layers
Melancholy clings fervently
Take the rest of my youth
And this life that's a void without you
This life which is nothing
But the tattered cloth of a beggar
Patches and stitches of pain and pining
And the scent of a mirage hiding its poverty
Pity these helpless throbs
Of my mind and my soul
Helpless, this body longs
For what was never his
Just a few more hours
Will since long captive, dreams have surrendered
This is what I've inherited
This is what I couldn't escape

For the sake of the love that we said we carried

Let’s bear this humiliation

Just for a few more days

A few more hours

Let me lie on your lap

That never failed me
There's a tiny heart inside, that's a rebel
Agony and abandon never scare it
It beats but for you
Just a few more days
Stay for a few more hours
We know that you'll go
For there is nothing to stop you
Or make you wrap your arms
Around this tattered cloth of a beggar
That pretends to be my soul

Whispers I No More Utter

This morning is red
Even though dawn has slipped away    

These drops which leave their home

A forgotten elegy beneath

The grey slow clouds they hum

I remember a embrace like this morning

Partly full of longing
And partly ridden with abandon

How incomplete the same skies seem
No different than my immobile passing

This journey is now a point itself
No goal, no home to hope for

Inchoate our story shall be
But nothing has felt more absolute

And more complete than this love I carry within

Your kisses break at the doorstep 
Of a haunting memory of autumn

That autumn is about to knock again
And again 

The world shall immerse in blinding rain

Yesterday

It is just the memory of how you were 

That I miss so much

That I'm in love with
One which you seem incapable
To ever again be
Let me hence pack the clock
And stay at where we said

'tomorrow will be better'
So that I may hold your hand again
And not face the misery of
Watching your face turn 
To things mere and small
So that I no more live
This terrible wait

Painting An Embrace

I wish to hold you when you're anxious            
And tell you that there isn't a thing

I wouldn't do to see you smile
But you're so far away
Farther even
Than the farthest dream 
And the faintest star on the night's starry face
I'm not made that powerful
To travel so far
But my care may
It can gently lull you
When you're sleepless
Tell me hence
When your brow sweats
And your heart sinks
It's for such moments
That I exist 
It's to hold you when you're anxious
That I now live