time howls its silence

 
 
I shivered in a blanket of
cobwebbed emotions
as a day passed
with just a
scattered light
through the holes
in my soul
 
and it felt like
teeth clenching
in darkness
so honest
it showed
nothing
 
It felt like that
 
like that
 
it felt like alarms
blaring danger
on all sides as
the wind howled
like a raving thing
thirsting for
the spare copper
in my veins
 
yet less survivable
 
Yes.
 
Less survivable
than shivering
under the unkindness
of a happy sun
as hours crept by
without you
 
without you

(without you)
 
because
 
you are blue skies
at midnight in a hurricane
 
you are sunrise
in the void
 
you are solid ground
as the earth tilts
beneath my painted toes
 
and I lie here
blind in naked terror
peering through
my cobwebbed quilt
at flashes of your horizon
 
waiting for you
to uncover my face
as you cover my body