(Music: "Éphémère" - Tony Anderson)

Break me

in waves of creeping silence

for my tortured mind to rest

so I can feel

what a dance of words unspoken is like

in moves glimpsed over

from a future

or a past

unknown

for it is this that breaks through sanity

a moment too real

in its dreadful pain of knowing

that it will be gone

and will undo

me

in your mind

but not now

just then

when you will feel

the dreadful pain of present

locked in a past

or a future

too known

imagined

not lived

broken by its certainty

of a will

we both had

but did not believe

since we speak certainty when silent

and take no vows

since we know

to trust

just the present