Fear, Jealousy, Uncertainty

In a distant island

I strided ashore, planted a foot a time

But the waves kept clashing, and left not a single trace

And then there’s you

The dear you, so distant, through an estranging cloud

And here I was

My feet plunged in the sand as a step forward

I reached for your hands

But the cloud vanished and revealed those very hands

Embracing someone else’s

My world turned pitch black, subsiding into nothingness

As this heart pulsated its last

For you laced around this lump of muscle

Wires the lavished me with utter sorrow

Strangling harder, slowly, slowly

But I didn’t struggle

For neither you, nor the world found joy in me

And with that thought on hand

As if in sync, mine and the cloud’s glands

Entered a perpetual state of heavy downpour

|December 2015|