Themes: Love // Hope // Faith

grayscale

when the ocean is black, i pace
the long corridor of the summer/home
a mouth stirs the room. the walls hum

and light won’t sleep. the dark alters
my skin against an unyielding arm

i should brace the furnace—
but i stay, watching how we drum
beneath the skin, bodies rigged
to learn each other wrong
each other’s wrongs. wanted

i learn want from those who wanted drowning

what moves through the body
when time cracks the current open

the mouth holds mine, hands firm
and quiet in the dark—
shushing my body

watch the body shapeshift

how it shapeshifts under

eyes pulling me like rip currents—
into the grayscale room

in silence,
without breath,

i let them

when love demands

is not joy that passes—
only faces who know these tear marks

when they fall,
i arrive inside myself
like sudden darkness

what remains is a ghost
with dead dreams

when we wear our masks
and trap the heart when it asks for more

too much time spent fearing
being left behind
asking for too much

being alone means nothing else mattered
before now. every effort breaks

tell me how to live
we were not meant for stillness

i go where dreams were wasted

if you show me how your heart bleeds,
i will carry your loneliness

i want warmth in the dark
a body to call home

time moves fast
it kills what lingers

what remains is the soul

and love without faith
cannot exist.