checkmate when you take these hands
you stall into infinity our marriage
just like the swirling stars took
infinitude to trade secrets
responsible for concerts of masterpieces
etched the length of forever in our
skies, just like the heavens
manage to pull together a scene
of bloodied sunsets, in time for every
evening, opening splashed across our
visions, minutiae in the grand
scheme of eternity. our lives, a mere heartbeat
bristling to escape. just as our moments
morph into piracy and our chances
fade into oblivion, i discover them
and futilely grasp what last vestiges
in the smoke, rising, guile to me,
so to add to my collection
of fading nostalgia, cold
marble memories fading faster
than our guilt can make them sparkle
crystal.

you say your hands are tied
even as they wait.

mine
awaken. ...   ¶ 8/21/2004 07:09:00 PM