Ah, to awake sweating and breathless from a nighttime emissary apparition. Perhaps the only sadness which is briefly but intensely enlivening. Oh, but the melancholy afterwards… Still, it’s been a while now - is that a good thing?
Gently I awoke, to feel you softly breathing
abreast, in perfect frozen serenity you laid
Still, I eyed you with a mindful disbelieving
Far too immaculate a scene, which betrayed
that in my bed, besides me, and deceiving
my eager senses is really merely but a shade
I wasn’t truly seeing, indeed just perceiving
Realizing that ghostly remnants do pervade
my dreamstate anew, fantasy begins to fade
Again I wake, sorrowed chest weakly heaving
Damned jerking reality shift tore me from vainest bliss
Fabricated paradise! Yet one in which I’d fight to exist
A frigidly icy space, as of an unmistakable emptiness
belies this biting truth which now is shown far plainest;
by me no-one lays, as only a silent void does persist
It seems there’s an invisible, utterly impenetrable rift
betwixt us, slumber’s vault harbors this shadowy Miss
No efforts on my part can free her from dreamy midst
Shamelessly panting and pleading, screaming silently
All that I am now afforded is blurry, fading recollection
and wretched thoughts on how good that it would be
should my dreams, with their euphoric self-deception
and splendidly beguiling finery, become awoken reality
Welcome to my humble writing blog. There's a lot to see here, if you care to see it. Enjoy your stay!
FEATURED WORK:
An Ode to an Abdicated Muse - A poem demonstrating my infatuation's huge capacity for aesthetic appreciation
A Sniper's Perch [REDUX] - A short story narrating the mechanical executions and detached ponderings and reflections of a lone Russian sniper during the brutal climax of WWII
The Last Bard’s Tale [REDUX]
An Epic Poetry series (in progress)
         Part One
You'll find Alexandria when the Dawn Commeth
A short story told from the perspective of a man facing his fast-approaching death. The narrative follows the struggles of two starcrossed lovers kept apart by wicked divine intervention.
         Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
         The Poem
         The Story