Show me the ceiling
To break through it
Roof to climb
Endless stars infinity
Town edge dwelling
Among likeminded
City limits absorb
Unsuppressed greening
Ancient named peaks
Conquered cliff seams
Deconstructed reality
Worldbuilding dreams
Every time a memory
Falls from your lips
I capture the castle
Tend to its turrets
Looking out to wilderness
Waiting for inhabitants
Clock stopped in shock
Longing to revive
Moving hand to hand in time
For one
Nightly thoughts invade
Missed chance blooming
Once a year
Beauty and opportunity
Keeping me awake
How long till next opening?
Keeping me grounded
Expectantly waiting
Indefinitely
Crowds gather round me
Knowing
Queen of the night
Stood over me
Displaying her colours
For one glorious moment
From then on I became
More like myself
Each passing day
Take you with me
Everywhere I go
Wherever I stay
Yet pieces of you
Will be strewn
Carefully
Tenderly
As I speak out
A love that dared
As I shed scales
Off laden wings
Turning transparent
Emptying
Evolving
As we all are
Portraying colour
Residing within
Becoming again
A heart
That sings
Once was a time when
Stars were synonymous
With the afterlife
Ancestors shone
As diamonds spinning
Elipsis bound
Girth of lady earth
Lying flat submerged
Ground
Once was a time when
Hearts were synchronous
Rhyming couplets
Composing sonnets
Grand concertos
In an evening
As arms of rays
Move bout the waist
When a glance
Spun my world
Round
When you can't see
The tree
For fallen leaves
Nor the clouds
For the breeze
Wait until season
Wind changes
As it always will
Kind friend
Reminds you
Of the dawn
Ahead
Peering through into
Your world now mine
Illuminating
Now to find
The key to latch
In the dark
Hiding under layers
Ancient wallpapers
Generations
Foundations
The same
Women endured
Loneliness
Female company
The only cure
Gateway
To wilderness
Built by hands
Bound in chains
Heart also
Only opens from
The outside
I hold myself
Walking down street
Speaking to strangers
As if dear friends
I hold thumb between
Two fingers
Capturing the sense
That I am me, not them
Knowing full well
Where the boundary is
Where my body ends
And yours begins
Yet the fingertips
That stretch back
From my mind's eye
Touch yours and hide
Nestled in a hollow
Where no one can reach
I entwine with you
As if strolling through
The parting tide
Ignores the wall
Between earth and sea
Too timid to dive
Admiring the view
From low water line
Signals lost in fog
Along the way
Holding onto mine
A time for adventure
Blistering cold and heat
A time for restoration
Distraction, diversion
Show me another way
Through the thickets
Deep immersion
A time for shelter
Closed cabin
Four walls
Cocoon
To reform
Break out
In good time
Reborn
As seasons unfold
Each a gift
New openings shown
None more enduring
Than one to admire
But not to own
Tumultuous images
Whip through forest glades
Of my afternoon daydream
Real life happenings
Unrelenting
Where to turn for comfort
Assurance the world
Is still beautiful?
All is not lost?
Confounded
A flash of snowy white
Glistening pink
Ripe and soft
To touch, I imagine
Delighted
No justification needed
To escape by reaching
Hopeful fingers toward
Your hand in my imagination
Elation
Count the stars of heaven 