this piece is by my good friend hayley. enjoy...



today i sat and watched a willow dance
each elegant vine hung, suspended in the wind as if to reach out and pull me up into the sky. . .

i thought of you

you are like that gentle wind that plays among the vines, tossing and turning each one, giving them life

your zephyr passed over me once
over me and through me
you tousled my hair, swept me off my feet, and for a moment, made me dance
for a moment lifted me to a place above all my worries, above all the pain

i can still feel your touch
it sends chills through my body

*sigh*

but I am not your destination
you softly brushed past my check and slipped through my fingers
and now all I wish is to be whisked away again on your billowing breeze
find comfort in your whimsical essence. . .

but you’re gone
and i’m sitting here alone
watching a willow dance

we speak like friends do, cutting our hearts open and letting them pour out;
awash in thoughts and memories that used to belong only to one of us, now belonging to both, diving in and out of our souls to bring to the surface whatever treasure we might find there.
i found you in the bottom of my heart.
i would revel in those hours forever, in you forever, exploring every nook and craney of your heart, and traveling the distance of your mind.
i would never imagine that we would wring out our souls together, drying mine from all the murky water that made it heavy. i never thought i could do it, holding back my tears with laughter, but your presence made it comfortable, your voice softened all the hard parts that choked me up.
when i look inside of you, past the dripping warm liquid brown that completes your eyes, there's a fire burning. so i sit down and warm myself by your fire and listen to all the things that you hope to be, your dreams, your aspirations, your confessions, and all at once i realize why i fell for you in the first place and never could get back up.
but i'll never let it escape me; it's sealed with the way you finally put your heart out on your sleeve and laid your lips on my forehead. even when i miss you like i do, i know now that your soul is no more than a heartbeat away.

lost in this likeness
it looks exactly like you
sadly its only an illusion
a contusion in my brain
causing me so much confusion

soar in
soar out
these walls are empty
as they come crashing down
you won my heart long before you knew you were ever playing the game
but its all the same to you
so it seems

step in
step out
stuck in your trap
and you're simply sympathetic
by no means monotonous
awashing me in comfort
and tangled in loose ends yours
of some sort

dirty little fingers
grasp the face of a china doll
'take it and run'
they shouted;
like wolves to the moon.

you would never notice the puddle you splashed in
as your feet flew over the gound.
your legs are covered in mud now, love.
with your every rythmic hoof-beat
the earth cracks beneath you.

'never look back'
they cried,
'never look back'
like vultures
encircling a carcass in the blistering sunlight.

stomp
stomp
.splash.
slosh
slosh

one unsure step
and its face meets pavement.
they're all gone, love.
you were moving to fast to notice
that they never took to running behind you.

you would never stop to think until now
and you wouldn't have
if your body hadn't come crashing to a halt so
abruptly, love.
and you finally noticed all the mud on your legs
and that they were nowhere to be found (when you needed them most)
as you lay face down in a hundered tiny shards of china
covered in your dirty little fingerprints.