ELLIE ELENOR
IN OUR ELEMENT
WANDERLUST
Earth in hand,
raindrops fall like the sun.
My feet making footprints
in the golden sand that falls behind.
Mind tired, my knees meet dust.
You let me lie
and bleed into the grass for a while.
Until your bare flower whispered: Move on.
Hand in hand,
We drift like the leaves.
Skin on skin,
marvelling at our symmetry.
Together we watch the night,
as one red seed unknowingly shifts moons,
and the light from a million suns
gently returns to our earth.
FIRE ICE
I once flowed with the waters
Crashing over shore by shore
My restless spirit intertwined
with the torrents, falls and pools.
You saw yourself in me,
Reaching out to hold me down
And your touch
turned my water into bone.
You chained me down,
left me nowhere to run.
And even in those stolen moments
when I escaped,
your memory pulled me back in.
You wanted,
Needed,
forever.
But I found infinity a terrifying concept.
So I hid from your rough touch
behind hollow words.
Staying as I knew
the cold had not yet reached your heart.
gently returns to our earth.
WINDSTORM
The wind screams and the sky splits,
darkness swallowing up the stars.
It takes hold of us,
twisting round our lungs.
Breathe.
Just breathe.
We might survive
We shine as the moon
paints colours on our skin,
breaking apart with each
bone shattering breath.
And as we break,
our dreams dream of flight.
I kneel, fingers interlaced
And shout into the void,
“I am yours to tear apart”,
and the air ricochets back
carrying your voice to my heart.
You say “kiss me;
It will ruin you.”
AFTERGLOW
We had swallowed gunpowder
and together we ignite.
As we burn
a silent promise,
caught between the whispers
of our cracking flames:
"make them remember us"
let our kisses be the embers of our poetry
and our warm touch forever glow after death.
I peer into our oblivion
and I see myself
too afraid to dream of yesterday
as I lie in the ashes of a fire once bright.
I watch myself caress the scars you drew.
Skin marred with burns left by your fingertips,
the pain that demands to be felt.
I know you will hurt me
but you are love incarnate
and I am yours to devour.
I know it in the deepest knots of my heart
as well as I know that
in your eyes there is truth.
