Solace
Yes, the solace of moonlight; Lavishly warms cold skin.
Hidden away. Unnoticed.
Loneliness, familiar, remembering how loneliness would
Tease me, tapping at my back, and hide. It would play
this game of hide and seek until one day I waited.
Then I listened.
Another tap.
This time penetrating the bone.
I ask of it, “who is there?”
“It is I, the reply said, what you thought was real,
keeping you still,
draining life out of you.”
“Yet I am no longer here, you choose to find
Solace in moonlight; this, my girl, has warmed you,
breathed eternity into your mouth.”
“Miles and miles the water travels to kiss your heels. “
Soft breezes float around my shoulders, kissing
untouched skin,
flowing through my hair, sliding down my clothes,
pulling me close, drawing me near, reassuring me,
this is my time. Whisking away the cruelty of trusted
hands that drew back,
shattering with echo’s of ferocity, slapped the glass
to the ground, cursing the sheets under my
exposed breasts.
“The love I had for you wasn’t enough,” loneliness said.
Everything I know, all I have, as drops trickle
Down the small of my back. Yes, I know the wind
has chosen to
love me.
Moonlight has illuminated the pathway though darkness
prevails beside me. The burning sand cooled
by the moonlight.
My road from danger, scented with the sweetness
of the Father’s smile.
In the haunts where jackals once lay,
grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.
Written by Ramona