Unquestioned.

A hope set alight by promises.
Promises of a new dawn and his.
His companionship unquestioned forever.
Forever unwavering, steady never.

Never before had she dreamt.
Dreamt of a world that so much meant.
Meant to be built on love.
Love as a giving, received from above.

Above & beyond where the sky larks live.
Live in a misshapen exchange of give.
Give in to an unquenched fear.
Fear of a mind that hadn’t seen tears.

Tears wet her cheeks and fall.
Fall across into a river; she stands tall.
Tall, frighteningly dull, turned grey.
Grey, damp dresses on a hot May day.

Day turning to the next night.
Night without a trace of love or stars.
Stars hiding, mute spectators to it all.
All burnt down to leave one unidentifiable scrawl.

Real ?

I’m unsure of what I feel for you now.
Or I know but don’t understand how.
A straight path with countless bends.
I feel, I wouldn’t want to comprehend.

Away, lost in a recycle-bin of Paradise.
A tangled web of lies and good-byes.
Unsure, unaware, uncertain gazing.
Memories and tries that need no erasing.

Of soft cloth and dying embers.
Of a future which everyone remembers.
Silk, pulled apart into strings.
Strikes on hot iron & new beginnings.

Unsteady footing on a path untrodden.
A flicker of times lay gone in the modern.
Sightless windows & visionless widows.
Open skies, factory dust & cawing crows.

Dragging on, endlessly, for a whim.
Brightly lit tunnels on tracks dim.
A stone cold heart, burning warm.
Shaking, certain a steadfast storm.