Falling From Grace
Falling From Grace
When we were in love
I wanted nothing from you ____
But what happens to the memory
of our bodies outlined
by the drifting sand
still swirling in the southern sky?
Like everyone who came before you
it seemed needless to stay ____
and now your voice,
just a shadow of a whisper
I barely remember.
We change so quickly
from green to flower to fruit
to brown to broken to rot
when all we really want
Is just a moment
to float in a cerulean blue sky,
to touch the sun with our hearts
and to feel
that we have been found ____ not lost.
How beautiful your body
how perfect the life
that doesn’t belong to me.
I only know one way to go
decisively and swift
my heart changes
and you never existed.
Unimaginable the way
erotic passion retreats ____
a line through your name
an arrow through my heart
and once again I am naked
and needing nothing more ____
The flower that grows up my spine
reminds me that falling from grace
is at the center of being human.
© Gesso Cocteau
From Stranded Hearts
To be Released Summer 2022
Photo © Anna O
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