what is it that we have wasted
if not time we could have spent together?
living on the edge of our dreams
on the precipices of waking thought

we just happened on different planes
in the geometry of our awkward lives
taking the transit of broken promises
to a sea that yet overlaps the needing

the heart falters over the impossible
as it follows it’s haphazard course
slipping away in a hazy distance
awaiting a voyage of frustrations agony

we live no longer in the reality of life
but in the soft fringes of imagination
ghosts in the light of a blown candle
amid the shadows of yesterdays calm

what makes the world go around
when we have fallen in tangential lines?
away from reason and sensibility
into an endless sky of forbidden wants

we existed for the moment of knowledge
truly given birth in loves upper hand
but only to die upon its battered shores
to be fractured when once we were whole

to know love and yet taste its lacking
through the saltiness of bittersweet tears
understanding the futility of duty
and complying with belonging to life

we yearn in the moment we close our eyes
and resurface in the waves of destiny
stung by the realization of waking alone
even when we found ecstasy upon the edge

© Amor Sabor 2013