Prelude To The Longest Three Hours Of Sleep
The look in your eyes
Betrays a melancholy pain.
Speaking the sorrow without talking.
Hours spent in silence.
Mourning as a means to an end.
Gentle caress on skin.
Nervous laughter fills the quiet.
The stillness of air broken
By the thundering beat of hearts.
There is an infinite sadness in love.
Attraction is a cruel joke
To disguise the nature of emotion.
I could cry when I realize
The fatalistic truth of inevitability.








Ephemeral
Blue-tinged lips, cold kiss
Pallid complexion, numb caress
A day submersed, still so fair
Water drips from tangled hair
A week before, let out a sigh
The night to wed had been nigh
Flowers picked, gowns we'd chosen
Now blank stare, heart is frozen
A final bed, satin white
Grief sharp and clear, but blurred is sight
The makeup makes you look so plastic
Someone else lies in that casket
Love is a joke from God to mankind
Impossible to keep, nearly so to find
The truth now I know, pain is eternal,
And God is cruel, for joy is ephemeral