“Hey, been a
long time.”
Eyes meet
Surprise and shock
Happiness
He stands six feet tall
In a full blown
Tux.
Grinning eyes,
That familiar
Scraggle.
He bends his knees

I have not been truly happy for two years.
But I found my happiness today.

The door that slams

The brush of metal on plaster
The melting
Liquid glow
Of a brand of fire
Leaking its saliva
Over my skin
I take a breath
Distant
The pain no longer

Moving on

From the very first intake of breath
We were Hers.

The tender tremors of her laughter
The spice of her skin
Browned and warm from the sun,
The sweetness of the many flowers

Echoes…

Chase at my heels
The wounds
That once were stitched
Tightly
Slip from
Their bonds
And fester
And grow
Until they consume
Me
The last words
That she breathed
Were words

Candles

In ecstasy the candles
Burn out
The wicks curl
In their pleasure
The heat of
Passion…
Wax drips.
Succulent those
Droplets spilled
From
firelight's
core.

Noir- The Lady Death

When you think of me
Think of the ocean, the depths
Of inky darkness that whisper of mystery
And madness.
Or of black roses, their morbid scent

Neo Religion

Dance with the lady of despair
In her velvet gloves and lace veils
With those red lips parted so sweetly to draw you in,
That exquisite flower that blooms to fire

Bitch in Red

You want an experience?
Tag you’re it
I’ll be your acid trip
I’ll make your head spin
I’m as illegal as hard drugs
The kind of girl who’ll wrap you up

Seduction

A Little Ray of Sunshine

When the sky is gray and gloomy
I take my rusted red wagon
That was once my fathers, his father’s father’s
Passed down to me
And I pull on my winter coat

Dark Waters

She can’t see the surface
Her hands reaching frantically up
To the ceiling of darkness
The veil of mysteries above her head
Her long fingers coming together

Question

Ignorance is dead.
No more excuses for the absent minded
In their spinning tea cup worlds
Of ‘maybe yes’ ‘I don’t know’ ‘let’s reset and start again’.

Beauty

To take the hills in my hands
And feel their shape
To feel my breath
Warm the chasm that
Parts them
And my fingers running over
Each gentle slope
To their very peaks

Two Sided Coin

The death card is drawn
heads or tales from the tarots
You draw the dagger
Death is a two sided coin
because I poisoned the wine.

Lauren
March 2008