Voltage

Voltage

A shock shot and sheared the air
all blue, it severed through,
frazzled his blood,
dazzled his breath.

The charge had grown, suddenly,
rubbed and stroked
stoked in the erratic static
of wandering lives.

Hair raised and eyes dazed,
days splayed out,
Stretched taut by electric torque

Her shock shot and sheared the air
all blue, it severed through,
frazzled his blood,
dazzled his heart.

Let sleeping embers lie

Waiting to leave for my old home,
that warm and safe place between
the folds of embrace and easy smiles,
I looked up to clouds, now slipping cold and wet
down the rocks and bushes of Devil's peak.

Never before has the rankled hand of
obsession gripped around my thoughts
and steered me towards the fire.

That burning heat
enticing, enflamed with the promises
of a love lost.

In those curls and curves
of flame I see flashing
ecstasy, the writhing
red of joy

A spatter of rain brings me back,
It is still dark green and grey outside.
let sleeping embers lie.