Member Poem

After midnight, this foolish heart is all I've got
But there are no winners or losers in this game
I breathe the fragrant elixir of time well spent
Finding an answer with your smile that came

My thoughts are far away, when I see you smile
And all I can taste is your sweetness and sweat
As perfect strangers with a human connection
We lie satiated and light each other's cigarette

You and me together, until we have had enough
I, returning to my own prison, again missing you
I breathe in our imagined smokey, scented tryst
That floats through my dreams, out of the blue

And now I am here, at the end, barely breathing
Each inhaled gasp, reminding me of your scent
The time has come to insert the breathing tube
Fiery nails in my lungs, with their sweet torment

In the middle of the night, as I lay here sleeping
And after all the time gone by, I breathe you still
Clinging to the perfumed, aromatic, musk of you
You, You.. until my lungs have breathed their fill

Christina L. Pearson
© 07-04-2019