H A Y L E Y  G A B R I E L 

when the car vanished and I fell shadows were waiting but so was she arms reaching all the way around not to lift but to hold to sink...

I am in pain too I want to say as if that can take some of yours away *

cold words are cold comforts *

sometimes your echoes ring so loud I can't hear myself *

vampire teeth know where the veins lie where the skin breaks sinking—feeling when they land and it hurts and I change too *

the moon floats on the surface of a dark sea asking to be plucked by my hand or maybe yours I want it for myself but I'd rather see black...

what's harder— keeping memories or losing them? *

the garden rises and falls blooms and dies starts anew patient with itself let me be a garden *

you're not sure you're never sure and then time laps over and it doesn't matter anymore *

I wonder—do we all blunder? one step after the next eyes blacked out I ask him softly screaming please lead me kindly to that place I've...

pick your poison —work on the antidote *

now you see me please see me now you don't don't go *

meet me me, the stranger and love me again, more, anew, anyway *

the River can't stop to talk it has somewhere else to be the Trees are there but they don't care they have their own growing to do *

we are the same, the Night and I blinking into the corridor— nothing tangible here when the darkness is in me the fear goes where? I...

One day I will visit that place where love is set aside. I will hold the pieces in my hands and wonder how they haven't died. With my...

why do I fall so easily? they say that love is a strength, so why do I feel weak when I leap down down into its depths so far it sends me...

A poetic reflection on love, first written November 2017.

I remember the time. The time I met you. It was subtle and passing but unmoving and rigid all at once, as if I could lay a finger on you...