DELIRUM

 To kiss your tears

As they fall

Soothe my lips

They are Holy Water

Washing my sins.

Not in this life

But in another

I shall collect them

In vials of glass

To keep close to my wretched heart.

To gaze into your eyes

I wonder how the lids askew

Could keep such fire burning

Within.

Could it not erupt and burn me?

Drown me so deep

That I may succumb

As cinders on your feet?

Closer and closer you draw to me

In a graveyard, slowly, Alas!

As I touch you

You crumble to dust

Ashes, thorns and debris.

Wake up! Wake up!

Someone cries

I look up to see

Your dust forming 

Windows, sheets, curtains and

Rods of steel

No! No! I cry

Shaking the bars that imprison you from me

Now I must die

Life leave me!

For in this life

You were but a dream.