Memories In Silence

Love, sweat, and tears
Hang in the Shadowland
Stain the grave
Where lovers dream

I am a lover
And I dream

I dream of your soft flesh
Warm and smooth
Beneath the Desire
That reaches out for you.

The walls amplify your absence

Your absence
Like the sea
In which pieces of you reside -
Lingering emotion wanting form.

Your voice floats to me
On faded parchment,
Floats like wizened driftwood
Across lonely waves -
Though I fear I forget already
The shapes and textures you spoke.

I call your name
Through the dimensions that divide us

Name the wishes I have for you,
But names and wishes fall dead –
In Silence -
As the heart which beats for you.