Are we allowed to say I love you

While lying on the floor

Doubting faith's existence

Determined to take no more

Should we only say I love you

When strength is at its peak

Or can it be said with sad songs

Soft apologies for being weak

When we've reached the most

One lifespan can measure

We must return to flow

Every earthly treasure

It's a liminal space I chose

Before I ever started

What's the farthest one can go

From deathly brokenhearted?

Face the light

Hide the smile

No way to say

Craved this awhile

My holy becomes stoic

And then thoroughly uproarious

The only thing to know

Is that it's all foolhardy silliness

The picture is quite quaint

What absence has painted of me

You didn't remember to say

I had failings in the eulogy

Everything once overwrought

Now revealed to be

In the end all for naught

As you cautioned me

I needed to go away

For a while to be taught

It's all so much brighter

Than we ever thought

The lines in his form

aligned with her warmth.

She was the color

and he was the shape.

They let their bodies

draw together,

forming a masterpiece.

Burn it down and bleed it out

because nobody's listening.

I run away, by myself

waiting for the end.

I've given up and I am numb

looking for somewhere I belong,

a place for my head on roads untraveled

that make me hit the floor.

I'm lost in the echoes within a

castle of glass and shadows of the day

leave me crawling on hands and knees

from skin to bone until I faint

and there's nothing left me ....

She sketched a line

in the sands of time.

So neither heart nor mind

would reunite

and ignite the war

once again ...