Daybreak
Daybreak, and your voice is a lingering breath
your presence is an imprint warming
my now orphaned breasts
the lightning still flickers and taps
maddening code from brain to heart
Daybreak, and shadows are chased
to their beckoning corner
your stormy eyes are studies in fever-pitch
your irresistible, irrepressible mouth
a smeared fire-engine stain
do we accuse my own love-swollen lips?
Daybreak, and the silence is infinite
you pretend at nonchalance
but your beautiful hands tell another story
you are near enough to touch
and all the more distant
Daybreak, and we are already spent
ruptured to opposite ends of the room
backs bidding one another farewell
the door is now salvation, resolute
leaving me was always a hollow threat
you will make good on old promises.
Daybreak, and I capitulate
among the splinters of our heartbreak
you have departed without remorse
my will crushed in your dilapidated suitcase
as you feign the lightness in your step
In response to @Firdaus poem "Midnight". Link to original post: