Saturday, 17 May 2014

Watching the Sky



today you're spread far too thin
wispy on the wind and barely tangible
you feel a distance from the surface of the earth
so little substance, you can be looked right through
are you eating enough, my love?


you move imperceptibly like a sadness
one always there and slow to depart
you are pale and hold no weight at all
breaking up without me seeing
come closer my lovely

It must be cold where you are
you can shout and cry if you want -
just gather some mass and fill my eye
be a blanket, a panorama
just be nearer to me.

Blue is a heartsick colour after all.




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