Fading upon sunburnt lips

 

Life drifting through

my fingertips

and I’m a grain of sand

I cannot grip.

Lifted across the breeze,

a stardust kiss

fading

upon sunburnt lips.

 

A smile that won’t land.

 

It feels like going

through the motions.

A rumbling wave

on a calm ocean.

A story without

a reader to follow.

Everything feels

empty and hollow.

 

A graveside memory,

buried in faded daydreams.

 

Life is drifting along

and I’m just running

in the distance

trying to catch

a stray shooting star, before

I fade into another night.

 

Light blinking out of my eyes.

 

It feels like going

through the motions.

Wringing out my emotions

for no one to hear or care,

the love I hold dear

knows not the words

I wish to appear,

and silence fills my existence.

The sun has hidden

behind a cloud only giving

silver linings to those

whose eyes are not fixed

on the ground.

 

I need to look up and see the sky.