longer (Remove filter)
Close to the fire
I'm on the edge of myself,
where skin is not enough
and desire spreads
like a nameless flame.
On your body - a mirror of absence -
I search for myself:
a burning instant
between now and nevermore.
The flesh longs for verb,
but all is silence
when I touch you with my soul.
I am a lit shadow,
I am a blind word,
wanting you
where you no longer are.
And in the dark of the room
...
Monday 26th May 2025 4:49 am
The Silence That Remains
There is a silence that is not silence
It is the air that refuses to enter
It is the footsteps that echo in empty corridors
the time that drags, heavy
like a body that no longer feels
Fascism does not come with noise
It comes with the absence of song
with the hand that closes around the throat
and says, "This is not pain. This is order."
But there is a light that insists
A tiny light...
Tuesday 28th January 2025 5:35 am
Recent Comments
Nigel Astell on Facing The Not Knowing
5 hours ago
Red Brick Keshner on "time is of the essence"
8 hours ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on Slug
10 hours ago
Red Brick Keshner on her constellations
21 hours ago
Red Brick Keshner on a sigh, verbally-breathed
21 hours ago
Tim Daly on Hidden
22 hours ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on Number 18 Shirt for Number 10!
1 day ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on When Genocidal savagery meets the useless outrageous ignorance of closed eyes
1 day ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on Actors in A Stage?
1 day ago
John Coopey on WARRIOR QUEEN
1 day ago