Ode To Every Man

I could feel the comfort in your arms

The dwindling dying part of me

Refreshed

Aware

Awakened

Alive as if a flower

Unfolding in the dark

A bloom plucked from her branch

Merciless

Abandoned

Discovered

Opening there within your hands

As they ran from end to end

And of my merciless sadness

And of my ever-ruined veins

Beat by beat

Throbbing once more in remembrance

Of a long-forgotten dance

To dust off my valances

My balances

In my discretion

Your hands were my direction

And they led me to myself

There within your arms

I thought I can outlive myself

I can live forever

Eternally embraced

For the lines that make your face

Trace the shadows upon my brow

And now and then I see you

There inside my mind

In the deepest darkest part of me

It's great love that I find

For love in masses

Or love in drops

Fills my shallow pool

A dry and dying desert

A century of hurt

A body bound to fall to pieces

There within the dirt

Your love the only reason

That love's my only rule

As what love has in seasons

Aye, its treason is its jewel

I needed you in moments

Where I knew no sense of worth

Where tears would be the rain

Blood the soil

Body, earth

Sadness has become

The inner workings of the mechanism

That is my barely beating heart

A complied fracture of bones

Take the shape of my ribs

And sorrow, sorrow alone

The liquid formula of my swollen veins

I am alone in my loneliness

Not forgotten nor cast out

But chosen to be one who is both with

And then without