All roads end

The roads that wind in light

The roads that tread in secret

All roads end

None in favour of the other

Some end quiet

Some end in fire

They twine

And meet at gibbets

Let us march together

And not alone…

Stand naked in the bitter cold

Of a prairie winter night

And stare into the icicle stars

The breath freezes

The flesh freezes

The world freezes

To a quiet, still darkness

The mission

Should you choose to accept it

Is to love fearlessly

Against all odds

And without limits

This person will self-destruct

in five seconds

Four

Three

Two

One…

I wish to take a walk

In the cold winter night

To the hidden places

To shadowed places

That we might meet

To embrace in the dark

And break loneliness in two

A living, loving eucharist

Declaring life through sacrifice

And stave off desperation

In a dream of you and i

Pressed down and broken

In the dark wandering

Forever lost.

Leave your writing

Unfinished and open

That i might cross your T’s

And dot your I’s;

Create with me

A cursive life

Connected in the curves

And linked in the loops

Spelling out a story

Worthy of the name

I have a sad

Held close to my chest

Like the stuffed blue whale

I remember when I was three

It is soft and it is cold

It feels like it belongs to water

I want to stuff it down the drain

Like I did to the whale

In the big white bath tub

I want to drown it so bad

Before it drowns me

I will replace it

With a mirror that shows the sun

Even in the night

Who needs a sad

When you can hold a star in your hand

I see her

Sipping from turquoise

And looking away

With eyes i drowned in

The moment I fell

The moment I dove

I see her

Sipping from turquoise

A small frozen moment

Startling in it’s beauty

And i hold my breath

Refusing to blink

Lest i sink

Into darkness

Never too see her again

Sipping from turquoise

Are you a word

Are you a sentence

A paragraph

A chapter

Or punctuation

In this story?

Whatever,

You are…

This matters,

You are

This part

Of eternity;

Ink in the endless,

The endless chain,

The endless circle,

Just the endless

Embryo of eternity

How about that?

Here you are,

Here you have always been,

Waiting;

Here you will always be

Forever.

In the air

I imagine

I am disconnected

From myself

I am apart

From my emotions

Above it all

Weightless

Without purpose

Safe from the storms

That roil below

Empty

Lonely

But ok

Until I land.