Swallow Me Whole

Swallow Me Whole (photo from Lookout Mt., June 2013)

It was your heart I lost when the world turned gold, 

beneath the blaze of secrets untold. 

After the fire has burned away,

these ashes of love are all that remain...

...even your ghost consumed by the flame. 

I gather my voice to call out to you,

but there is no answer for my heart to beat to. 

Tied together

by these threads of wind
and the fire that burned our hearts within. 

I feel the clouds could swallow me whole, rain me down, and you’d never know.