Tag: relationships

Moon ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #60

Like the moon moves the ocean
Like petals draw the bee
Like dawn wakes the songbird
Your love’s compelling me

Once she finally saw through
The gaslighting
The manipulations

Once she saw
The abuse
In the abuser

The anger rose
Fire in her veins
Pooled, glowing
As if lava flowed
Like liquid rage
Just below
The surface
Of her flesh

She looked away
And I knew
There would never be
Love in her eyes
If she looked at me again

No trust
No love

My heart goes out
To lights dimmed
Residing in
Dark places
Their power
Long relinquished

A pattern played
Their brightness seized
Turned back on them
A harsher light
By broken souls
Who feed on other’s weakness

She looked at me

Through me

No
No no

She looked into me

Deeply

She looked into me
Into a place
No one had looked before

Sometimes the frame
Is more worthy
Of closer inspection
Than the image inside it

The same is true
When exploring
Philosophy, science
And relationships

The subject
Of any investigation
Is not always as interesting
As the context of its conditions

We plucked the petals
And put them down
The reds and yellows
Gently on the ground
As we intoned
An old count-down

The beauty of a flower is
The life it holds
While purpose lives
Not in its petals
On the ground
Arranged so pretty
An artful mound

I stand, oblivious
In the pool of being
Casting ripples
I do not see

They spread
Interact with the ripples of others
Creating interference
Patterns of confusion

They rise to become waves
Washing over the lives of others
Sometimes pummeling them
Like breakers on the shore

My reflection
In your eyes
I see myself
More truly

You tear at me
In subtle ways
With unsubtle effects

Like the waves
Slowly undermining
A steep rocky shore