good-bye kiss

will i taste the salt of your soul every time i lick my lips? can you see the sun glint through the curtains in stark-white patterns as if heaven is aflame? a parade of the beloved with eyes of embers, across crimson plush to sing you to sleep. a gasp, a tear, soft cries commingled with musical notes, neither dirge nor allegro.

will you remember these times we've shared? each brush of our lips, touch of our fingers? the heart stops beating, so great the emotion that bursts through the chest like lightning. waiting in the next room to control our breathing, our lungs heavy weights around our necks.

in the end, i stand alone, in slanting rain like riddles.

darth sardonic