Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Breathless

 


You leave

me

breathless,

silently standing

motionless

except for the

pounding

rhythm

in my

chest.

 

I confess

to every star

that will listen,

that my eyes have

never witnessed a miracle

until the day you stepped in.

My heart has never beaten

as much as when

I hear your mind

and the way you

think.

 

I’m breathless,

just gasping for air.

My soul soaring

away

and I’m unaware

of feeling the

wind on my face

because the only

care I have

is to hear

the things you

declare, the life you hold within.

 

I confess to the moon

as she glistens, so bright

that I have

never felt so light,

until here and now.

I’d never

walked on air,

but now my feet

no longer know

the ground is there.

And the light I hold inside

is totally eclipsed

by the love

that lives there.

Monday, 13 April 2026

Slipstream - napowrimo

 


Sometimes I feel adrift,

like I’m in the slipstream

of a wild dream,

and I’m just hanging on

for dear life.

My feet skimming

across the surface

like I’m dancing on ice,

or like a deer

caught in the headlights.

 

My mind sits at home

wondering

where his body went,

and my sanity starts

to leak over the walls.

Great puddles of ink

stain my scrapbook

and I just stand at the

window and look

as day turns to night.

 

I watch from outside

myself, my mind

too cramped to stay within,

as a melancholic

cloud descends

over my eyes

and I awaken

lost in a crowd.

Clamped in place.

My hope stretched

to breaking point,

just screeching

in pain

to be released.

Panic

strangling my shouts,

as the fear slaps me

across the face.

 

I know that if I reach out

my friends would sit with me,

the fog will lift

a little more easily,

but I’m too enshrouded

by its clouds,

that I sit,

not wanting to

burden anyone's life,

take their time or

devour their light.

So, I place the mask upon my face

to cover the tears

streaming down the cheeks.

Forming lakes that I could

so easily drown within.

 

But then as the downpour

starts to overcome.

An umbrella of hope is opened up.

The love that comes when friends

see through your storms.

When they hold you tightly

and keep you warm.

When they sit

and just let you breathe

and slowly the fog starts to leave.

Only a heartbeat away - napowrimo 41

 

When we rip out all of the self

and become one with the air,

when we displace the worry

about how we look, what we wear,

the money that disappears somewhere.

When we stop trying

to fit the controlling looks,

when we stop trying

to tick the right box,

it all becomes wavy and free.

 

The heart beats a little more easily.

 

When we set fire

to the old beliefs and

see the beauty

inherent in this world,

when we turn to love

instead of hurt and abuse,

the story of your life

finally starts to come true.

 

The way love can take you

by the hand and help you float free.

 

How the worlds colours all run.

When we let love be.

 

I’m talking human chemistry,

the way we can connect

and feel as one without

ever touching skin.

With love to hold on to,

the way our minds

hold each other,

through the words within.

 

 

When we disrobe the self-doubt,

drop the restraints of how

we are supposed to look,

when we just drift into

the ethereal bliss of togetherness.

None of this matters,

for this is a world where

hearts and souls connect.

 

When we dispose of the programming,

the language dampening our potential,

we have so much more to offer.

We are elemental,

we are fire, earth, water.

We are air, and when we bare our hearts

we are the happy tears of another.

We are colour. A spectrum so divine

that rainbows only come out

when our world goes grey.

 

When we drift into the aether

it is sublime. When we explore together,

letting the wonder of affinity

become your new infinity,

drifting deeper into each other.

I’m not talking of skin touching skin,

but our conversation waltzing

through the swirling storms.

When we drop all pretences and

let our egos fly away, then everything

starts to make more sense.

 

So, close your eyes for a moment.

Breathe, and believe in the calm,

take my hand, and forever

is only a heartbeat away.

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