Lamenting your departure,
The cherry blossom
Distracts me briefly.

2012 © LH

Atrophy

The sunflower
Died a slow death
Gasping for breath
It's throat slit

Yellow blades
Rusted, pointless
Powerless to pierce the
Blistered black heart 

Pursuing the brightest star
From west to east
East to west
Craving to bask in its warmth

A Lavendar sky
Bleeds ruby red
A blazing fire, smothered
The frantic crows scatter
Like windblown ashes

The candle extinguished
It is noticeable, how
The curl of gloom
Tastes of vanilla
 
Forsaken once more
As the first snowflake falls
From the starless vault
No rhyme nor reason

A delicate white fleck
So vulnerable
It diminishes at any token
Of warmth.

2012 © LH

The Stigma

I never knew you,
Half an inch, with webbed feet,
My lungs forming,
Yours, giving up

Buoyant in amniotic fluid,
Whilst you were drowning.
Silent.
Enveloped in darkness,
Both of us, with no voice.

You wrote her a letter
On paper, the colour of the moon,
Delicate white lace,
Her wedding dress,
Never worn. 

She held it,
Hands like nervous butterflies
Fearful a breeze would steal it from her
Unknowing,
She had already been robbed.

Then she carried it with her,
She carried me,
Carried the burden.
She was slowly drowning too.

A bastard child,
A shipwreck on the ocean floor,
Casualties of the war,
The three of us. 

2012 © LH

Loveblind

In our past lives
We passed as ghosts,
We briefly touched,

It left a mark
Invisible upon our skin,
Burrowed deep,

It scarred our hearts

Our eyes will search
The darkest vault,
Discover stars
That doth align

They'll burn our eyes
And leave us blind
Blinding love,

Immortal sign

Stumbling forth,
We query why
Compelling love

So long, suspended

We had but to
Open our eyes
Enlightened now

Our torture,ended.

2012 © LH

Mindfield

Grinding teeth, bleached white tombstones
Sleeping soldiers, lost in dreams
Buried deep, the caustic tongue
Whispers of a war beneath

Behind the poppy coloured lips
She masks an agonising pain
The copper taste and sanguine froth
Spill forth in conflict once again

Foaming as a rabid dog
The kindest cure, to take her life
Sleep with soldiers in their tombs
And flick the trigger switch to night

Dark tendrils stroke her war-torn head
Her tongue is silent in its grave
He stole her mind, her heart escaped
In the end that was all she gave.

2012 © LH

The Parting.

To kiss your lips
And steal your breath
I swear will be
The death of me
To hold your stare
Whilst there before us
Others glare
Oblivious of the love
We share
To feel your fingers
Through my hair
A stray wisp
Pushed aside my face
And on my cheek
Your lips doth grace
As gentle as a feathers touch
Will surely be a feat too much
To see a smile purview your eyes
A sadness there that woe implies
To watch remorseful as you part
I stand forlorn with heavy heart.

2011 © LH


                                                   

Letting Go.

Remaining
In this secluded corner
Regretfulness
Upon your face

Too copious
For me
To undertake

Feast upon the Devil's cake
Claw your flesh until you bleed
When your heart no longer aches
When you've satisfied your needs

Epiphany
The dawning blow
Precedance
The desire to know

I loved
And so, I let you go.

2011 © LH

Arousal

When thoughts of you are in my head
I can think of nothing else
I must escape the urban drone
A place exists,
I call my own
A sanctuary,
Here I can be alone
To freely fantasize and muse
To feel the sunlight caress my skin
Reminisce where your lips have been
Your delicate kiss, surveying fingers
Explore each curve,
Upon my thighs, there lingers
The pulsation of your touch
Shimmers in my eyes
When you pull me to you
My sighs
At the demise.

2011 © LH

Something Blue

The same old lies
On the day they took their vows
The band of gold, felt cold
To the touch
Her incurable heart
Til death do us part
He borrowed a rope-
He knew
When her lips turned blue
There was something ironic
About tying the knot.














2011 © LH

Tears of a clown

She can't sleep when it's raining
She can't listen to the sound 
Of the rain as it's falling
Like the tears of a clown

She can't sleep when it's stormy
As it rips the trees apart
It reminds her of the turmoil
That lives inside her heart

But the rain clouds will shift
And the storm will abate
Sleep eludes her still,
She is lying in wait.

2011 © LH

Looking back

The lovers on the sidewalk
Holding hands beneath the autumn trees
Let go, they parted company
And walked down very different streets
She glanced back at him
As he disappeared from view
He carried on, his head bowed low
But he felt her eyes on him, she knew
She didn't know however
That he thought his heart would break
She didn't know he'd long for her
Every morning when he'd wake
She didn't know he'd think of her
Everytime he saw a butterfly
Or smelled the sea air near his home
And wished that she was by his side
He didn't know she'd kept every letter
That he wrote, she read
And re read every word
She kept his photo in her coat
He didn't know she searched
Amongst the crowds for his face
He didn't know she'd kept his number
All this time, just in case
What they both knew however
Is that they'd never meet again
Their love was brief but passionate
Yet blissful memories remain.

2011 © LH

The Journey

You fill the emptiness in me
make me feel complete, intact
I used to feel invisible
but you changed all of that
You're always in my stream of thoughts
a swollen river overflowing
I carry you with me on this journey
I'll never tire of the unknowing
Where we're going doesn't matter
We are all that might have been
Always everything or nothing
We know not of the inbetween
The impulse is a storm at sea
That tears apart a wooden boat
When it's gone we cling to love
And try to keep ourselves afloat.

2011 © LH

Falling

You don't understand me
I doubt you ever will
Played it safe, never took a chance
I swallowed life's bitter pill
You stood back from the edge
While I faltered on a ledge
But you caught me just in time
I was falling, falling
Unstitched, stitch by stitch
Unravelling slowly
Trace my every seam with your fingertips
Then you'll really know me
The sound of my breathing
The outline of my face
So that even when I'm far from you
No one can take my place.

2011 © LH

Stargazer.

Gazing up at moonlit skies
surveying stars and constellations
you dream of journeys off to Mars
the red planet holds your fascination
I too am gazing at the stars
I think of you and where you are
my shining companion in this darkness
revolving around me like a binary star.

2011 © LH

Cracks widen - lies seep
salty tears on silken cheeks
languid, a crumpled heap
longing for eternal sleep
smudged black streaks
on cotton sheets
shattered heart, incomplete
jilted lover, wounded, weeps.

2011 © LH

Hooked On You.

I want to sleep without dreaming
and wake without thoughts of you
the taste of you on my lips
just one more fix
my spirit crushed
yet I breathe in your smell
my body craves your touch
just one more fix
my spirit crushed
one more fix
it will never be enough
I'm an addict, a user
or are you using me?
does it matter, when we misconstrue reality?
my mind consumed with thoughts of you
oblivion....a place I cling to
transfixed by you
I want to be
I want to sleep and dream of you
wake up where the world smells new
our spirits free,
and you come to me.

2011 © LH