streets

streets ... when the night comes and you are waking to a world so far away when the dawn of your day brings stars to the skies above me and when the moon is caught somewhere in between i wander through the streets that i have wandered so many times before down the back alleyways of memory the avenues of desire the dead ends of heartache and the boulevards of hope and if i lose my way as i have before please forgive  this heart of mine that searches along the edges of love for the last road that i will ever travel the road that leads to the wonder of you Copyright © Kennedy James, 2015. All rights reserved.

The Yearning

The Yearning ... A dream lost in time, a hope beyond belief too much passion too much pain with a feeling unlike grief I never thought to feel so empty so lost, and so alone I have everything, yet nothing I guess my selfishness has grown it's not the moon ... the stars I'm reaching for just a need to fill this 'hole' for this emptiness inside me is eating through my soul Copyright © Kylie Elligett, 2015. All rights reserved.

the lovers ...

the lovers ... two lovers lie on the bed her left hand draped quietly on his shoulder each finger silent except for the one bearing a simple gold ring their lips touch and do not touch in a suspended paradox a kiss frozen in time never quite complete and yet so much more than complete their bodies are hidden concealed by a soft white cover seemingly placed carefully over them with a crease in the fabric perfecting a line across the slope downwards from their hips to their feet and above them cotton netting hangs suspended in folds that have yellowed slightly with age and you are here as a witness to some defining moment when this tableaux comes to life and the two lovers move in the bed turning and twisting into one another as they complete the dance of love and if your eyes do not fail you you will see the bubs of foliage spring from where their bodies intersect and the fragrance of flowers will fill the room do not be amazed and do not be frightened for it is you who have made it so Copyright © Kennedy James, 2015. All rights reserved.

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If you drop a glass, and it shatters at your feet, do not try to pick it up. You will not be able to put it back together, no matter how hard you try. Instead, remember the glass when it was whole, and when it was there to help you quench your thirst. Copyright © Kennedy James, 2015. All rights reserved.

fireflies

fireflies ... the distance keeps us apart mile after mile after endless mile across uncharted waters that rise and fall in tides like two lovers rocking rhythmically in silhouetted shadows etched like charcoal smudges across the opposite bedroom wall beside where the steamy window opens to starlight over daylight and daylight over starlight and so it is our life together yet apart you sleeping somewhere me waking nowhere you turning silently under the neat covers almost certain you can hear me whisper your name when i have not whispered anything at all the years keep us apart days, weeks, months dropping off the kitchen calendar and crashing like fine china in puzzle pieces across the marble floor and though i wish i could wish it away still the gap of time returns and crowds in between my outstretched hand and your disappearing fingertips two hearts so far apart in the count of years reaching for hopefulness but missing the ledge of certainty and sending a love so perfect in its rosy beauty free falling into an abyss of seemingly unending blackness that ends only with a splash in a pool of tears our moments together are like fireflies on the darkest night that blink brightly and light a straight line from my heart to yours and your heart to mine each breath and nervous shudder is encased in a sudden luminescence that is there and then recklessly gone each moment caught in an incandescent flicker illuminating two lovers entwined before vanishing and obscuring a thousand thousand more kisses in a shroud of shadows but if the stars align just right and if the earth relents to love distance and time will fold and stall just long enough to blend two hearts into one and you and i will be together under a single sun Copyright © Kennedy James, 2015. All rights reserved.