persephone | sonnet twenty four posted by imani , Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 4:43 PM, in Labels: ars poetica

trapped inside the machinations of departure
my heart offers an alpha rhythm, only that
i am wide awake, staring blankly at
what has been lost and what was never found

a communion of spirits, our sighs and blinks
construct an inescapable archipelago of
history and familiarity, each thread
devoured by the lack of exclamation points

this is about you ~ the cause of spring and
bearer of life, this is about you and
our unspoken algebra ~ a mystery, a quest,

a delirium, a shipwreck ~ a tangle of thoughts
twisted and hidden for fear it would
slip from my hands unable to discern you.