Daybreak

Daybreak, and your voice is a lingering breath

your presence is an imprint warming

my now orphaned breasts

the lightning still flickers and taps

maddening code from brain to heart

Daybreak, and shadows are chased

to their beckoning corner

your stormy eyes are studies in fever-pitch

your irresistible, irrepressible mouth

a smeared fire-engine stain

do we accuse my own love-swollen lips?

Daybreak, and the silence is infinite

you pretend at nonchalance

but your beautiful hands tell another story

you are near enough to touch

and all the more distant

Daybreak, and we are already spent

ruptured to opposite ends of the room

backs bidding one another farewell

the door is now salvation, resolute

leaving me was always a hollow threat

you will make good on old promises.

Daybreak, and I capitulate

among the splinters of our heartbreak

you have departed without remorse

my will crushed in your dilapidated suitcase

as you feign the lightness in your step

In response to @Firdaus poem "Midnight". Link to original post: