With breaths incomplete, more like a robot's

Who am I, if not half of a whole?

My starving heart is tangled up in knots

And the grip suffocates my soul

Dreams invade my implanted thoughts

Shiver through the pain and cold

And so I am

 

Seasons peaking with perfect promise

My summer flame faces the unknown

Joining the gold-bleeding artists

I strive to find a sense of home

Now you walk with me through harvests

As if it were meant we shall roam

And so we are

 

Whose soul is whose? Hearts beating in time

An emphatic elemental embrace

Our words evolve and rhyme

Our bodies create innerspace

Like water I crave your energy

And you drink me in as synergy

We weren't the ones responsible for this

But being the pieces is worth the crime

 

Melodic amalgam of passion

We're incapable of doing wrong

My cul-de-sac heart you've crashed in

To my magnetic siren song

 

Lo, we couldn't plan for this

Shall rivers flow and ebb

Our futures purely kiss

Clasped by a universal web

How easy you make life feel

From only your smile I heal

 

Awake to your confident glow

Asleep in your calming heat

Partners for everything we know

A duo to everyone we meet

And so we are

 

Limitless love abounds

Through frailty and loss

The serenity we've found

Is our fate, star-crossed

 

And welcomed into your family

Swathed in festive gatherings

Abuzz with humble harmony

Amazed the health laughter brings

You move ahead of my thoughts

Resultantly I connect your dots

 

And so we've become

Well-adjusted to a proud show

Of our best departure from

Who we were without us 'two'

So in need of help

We ignored it despite our face

Of exactly why

We needed 'us' in the first place

 

With our bones all crumbled

Piles of pretense-sharp rubble

So, now try to rebuild this sunk ship

As a blind quadriplegic

 

Breathing is harsh combustion

Though maintains when torn in half

Hearts programmed for corruption

Designed to delude a path

 

The hunger is devoured by dread

Blood barely pumps like a cold machine

I cling to dreams' escaping bed

What's to think beyond wishing?

And so I am

 

I would've walked my feet bloody

Crawled myself to stubs

Just to feel you next to me

If just to die inside your hug

 

If only I could

With the same mad passion

Put that forth for the good

Of any other practiced action

 

Am I alive to try again?

Exposed as the weak fool I am

Only courageous enough to pretend

Don't to be nothing, do to be damned

 

And I let time kill it slowly

Iterations of failing beauty

Feel like death in life's clothing

Bursting bubbles of biologic duty

Throughout my moldering nerves

Caving my spineless posture

Carved hollow by your words

That we'd always have 'our' future

And yet here I am

 

So I may have failed

We'd been strangers all along

Maybe my ship has sailed

But I'm not convinced I was wrong

I watched my love make you glow

Could feel you sleeping soundly in my arms

A seed lives; this was proof it could grow

It's the greater sense of life that disarms

 

Now I must go on tending

Be a partner in this chaotic dance

On the beat of my heart mending

By the rhythm of chance romance

 

See my pieces move

Hear my words so raw

Touch along my grooves

Taste my kiss in awe

 

For, what else can I be

Than a shade of universal love?

In an endless, stormy sea

That we are all made of

And so we are