An Eternal Love Letter

A poem

I fight the elephants upon my eyelids 
forcing myself to brush them off as easily as dust skids 
off a road. Stuck on my side, I cannot move 
facing the midnight blue that you’ve 
carefully planted 
cobalt and azure enchanted. 
Breath halts in my throat like a peanut not swallowed 
I’m stuck between now and tomorrow.

Yet I see your hazy glow
a floating orb, I dunno.
But you’re radiant and my knight  
a true summer’s delight 
in the midst of Jack Frost’s grip
my lips
ice. 
It’s unfortunate that I’m an edelweiss 
destined to be short-lived yet eternally bound
but how?  
How can both be true
at once? When we outgrew 
what was once a dream;
it's now just a stitch torn from the seam
a piece of fabric flowing 
with wind’s feathery breath blowing 
and mother nature’s cotton hug 
capturing what’s left of the torn and broken and unplugged. 

I taste salt and feel my cheeks become paths for rivers 
my fingers quiver
as I reach out 
hoping to grasp your … I burnout 
hand falling far
down. The elephants are back in a bizarre
type of way. 
Nothing makes sense to quite say
I refuse 
to confuse 
that you’ve been gone. You’re past your end.
But now is just my beginning with you to send

An eternal love letter. 

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Thanks so much for reading, as always :) see ya next time.

Lana :)