Drowning in our escapades

Brambly arms outstretched to weeping heavens
Thick shrouds of gray illuminated under yellow industrial light cast down 

Interrogating empty sidewalks
Drizzly peace interrupted by wailing sirens that call to empty streets

Her thoughts hold loyalty only to him

Having been hiding a midst broken promises and forgotten dreams 

She strays a jaded path of bewilderment
Dreamscapes of far away places
Under canopies of constellations
Stowing away in mountainous powder coated cabins
Outstretched on glittery seashores
Scrambling up trunks to childlike houses
Dipping into bubbling sulfur waters
Her bones sluff off the remnants of a fragmented shell

Lost in blue seas of familiarity framed with subtle waves of laughter
Sharing a calming caress of skin that produces sensations 

A lust much too deep for their seemingly short life

Refusing to allow the denial of her power

She had been incognizant to the extent in which she masks

He lifts her face to the sun and kisses quiet promises to her forehead 

Words flounder to equate suitable meaning

Failing to find their way to her lips

Settling for a gaze locked

Cemented in a moment

Conversations void of articulation 

Reticent plans for an unseen future

Humble everyday exploits

Contented fireside evenings

Sweet breakfast exchanges

Hopes of little feet tipping down the hall

Climbing between them to hide from monsters under the bed

Savoring shared milestones

Reveling in one anothers waning youth

She had been prepared to undergo it alone

Feeling that the unaccompanied thwart the languished

What began as unpleasantness in the absence of his company

Swiftly deviated to a harrowing vacancy

She could no longer find contentment in her indifference 

In him she found fulfillment

An ally in an adversarial world

Her muse

Her consort

In him she found home

And she loved him

In the way the moon loved the sun

Winter the summer

She loved him