Imagine me
so completely
consumed by you,
it’s like I was never
here at all.
Fragments,
only dust
and motes
in the sunlight,
remaining of me.
My whole world is you.
Don’t you lie to me.
I have rested
on your breast,
nestled in your fissures,
healed you when I cut you,
raised you to the Sun,
burned your effigy
and cried out loud
that I was never
enough for you.
Back when I existed,
I was just a fly
on the wall
of your life.
I was just a kite
in your sky.
I never believed
you would destroy me,
but some gnawing truths
eventually hit the bone.
You carried me away.
A river, at once kind
and throttling.
Choking
and drowning
in the nurture.
Soothing in the lazy bends.
No more ways
I can describe you.
Harvester of my soul
and reaper constant.
I spread my arms wide,
ran to embrace you
and I never returned
again.
Such it is;
the way of light and rainbows.
Neither are the thing;
the rain has passed
and the sun burns
hot as ever.
Everything is consumed
in this;
even the world.
HG – 2019
