It is in silence
When the absence of
Love roars its loudest
A cacophony of solitude
Echoing thundering but still
A deep dark stillness
Like a moist cave
Tunneled deep into mountains
There for one thing
Only to hide from
The monsters and beasts
Of my bad decisions
Staving off the hunger
Of loneliness and desperation
I do know who
And I know why
What I don’t know
Is where and when
Much like the fall
Knows that winter comes
But not knowing when
It readies itself by
Shedding summers last hurrah
As I too remove
The last summer romance
Donning my solace’s overcoat
Love is like a
Firefly that we capture
With the hearts net
And that unlike those
In the wild never
Stop flickering until at
Last we eventually do
But they are released
Back into the wild
Flickering again until caught
Illuminating someone else’s heart
Why do some
Hide their intent
Squirrel it away
Like buried nuts
Don’t they understand
That they buried
Others alongside them
Why oh why
Be someone else
Just be you
The you you
Said you were
When you said
You were you
But now that
You isn’t you
There’s this new
You the true
And real you
You now say
But that you
The before you
The trusted you
Is now the
What you that
You said was
You that’s not
Go to hell
Both of you
