this day never came
not in the way one can hold on to

the gray blurs my edges
until my certainty is lost too

slipping out of solid

time dissolves
nothing changes
nothing stays the same

yet unresolved has never been more peaceful
watching
drifting
waiting

It's that slow surrender
of day to night

the kind you can't believe exists
until you witness it.

The clouds drew near
to lie against the very flesh of the earth
in an intimate embrace.

I wish I was a mountain
shrouded in the silent comfort of a cloud
rooted to the earth
yet hidden from it
resting in the shadow of the sky.

I feel like the sky

obscured
moody

pierced -- by someone else's light

drawn nearer than I thought I'd be
by the messy beauty of the human life

The flowers promise that it's summer
and my heart believes them.

The night
smells of something
romantic and beautiful
that I have lost
but will meet again.