melancholy posted by imani , Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 4:07 PM, in Labels: ars poetica

the first poem i have written in a month, i think...


shadows and shades
that obscure your
perpetual grin
descend and swallow
the grim and
dreamlesss journey
of your hand,
the deluded and
ill-fated trail
to your mouth,
the throbbing, shackled,
nostalgic smoke
that tell me
we once were.