Lavender's Dungeon

I couldn’t believe my eyes

your presence filled my void consisting of absence and anguish

For the past three months

I’ve been in agony

But I dared not question

the inevitable

recurrence of your

burning soul finally upon me

words failed me, my subconscious’

dirty tricks surfaced tonight

There was nothing else to do

but forget everything

and embrace you

My mind blank, the constant

stream of penetrating

intrusive thoughts

ceased fire for this

moment

of utter bliss

our souls reconnected once more

they frolicked back and forth

between our physical forms

playing like children

playing in the open for they were once so hidden

like a thought lingering on your mind

you just can’t express

but we were hidden no more

everything was remembered

It all came back to me

like the waves of a great lake

we rocked

and our souls sang

they sang

our favorite song

and I helped you see this

and you helped me hear

the notes

for you are my eyes

eyes of a fairer emerald

when glistening in the sun

just so

and it’s my eyes that awoke me

and suddenly I was incomplete again

10/23/2018

(Published in the Southern Oregon University Creative Writing Department’s yearly journal Main Squeeze)

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