Into my daytime

Beneath shadows I have carved a place for the sun to escape
where I have laughed in the dead grass making faces at angry clouds
my face naked with happiness
unafraid of the dark mountains of air rumbling along the tree-line

I have waited, standing, a golden fountain of sparkling water leaking
alone in the middle of the field
the world around me so humongous, you couldn't possibly sneak up on me
and when I am done, a crow calls

wearing the coming storm as a cape billowing behind you
you approach
calmly walking into my daytime

Eurydice

bait me, please

I have heard whispered
from your bottomless soul
a remorse... an unwanting
a sacrifice I have held in your hair
eyes saturated with the ache of love

while I watched you go away

death was tender with you
by making me suffer so
forbidden to follow you

death be damned
I will find you

Copyright 2006, Eric Nunnally (12.06.06)

Rape

Why would I touch you now
after all these years
your beauty spent with your laughter
having taken life so serious
smelling of soaps and
deodorants
trying to hide your natural odor

you were someone's daughter
once
since divorced
cheating on love with a promising evil

how I hated you for lying about your power
even as you cower
control taken from you
ashamed of your nakedness
when nobody really cares
holding on to nothing

the illusions grasped for
to warm your ego
go
into that place
where you make yourself an alter
for that man's sacrifice

Copyright 2006, Eric Nunnally (12.04.06)

Woman

...
i looked
heaven within her, scentless
celestially cold, drawn of whisper's hint of warmth
against the dream of my closed eyes
still
i couldn't tell
her to do anything against her will
and waited to understand she was breathing
before i breathed

her gravity pulled me close enough
to stay in or
bit my lip thinking
her lips dry, soft and sealed

screened
i tasted my own hesitancy
wished she would close her eyes
give in peacefully
fall into the arc of my arm

but she marked me
guilty
of an undeserved ambition
under a guillotine of conscience
where nudity became art
by my impotence

Copyright 2006, Eric Nunnally (12.04.06)

Bliss

bury me within you
i have starved for no one else
alive I have pressed myself between so much of you
kissing the promise of your death with no afterthought
gorging myself on your smoothed edges
weighing myself deeper with you
til there is nothing left but an empty thought
of bliss

Copyright 2006, Eric Nunnally (12.04.06)

Tortured by your emptiness

in your misery you are beautiful, achingly so
an apparition of a dream I have lost
there is nothing to reach for, there is nothing more between us
your face is an ocean away
i dare not touch you, and kiss you desperately, tenderly
your stony tears leaving my lips cold
i have killed your heart for me
and so i have killed myself
tortured by your emptiness

Copyright 2006, Eric Nunnally (12.04.06)

The actor

fingers fluttering
casting butterfly shadows on the moon
i showed you how much
stars kissing my knuckles
overwhelmed by your thickness
chest burning
for my heart to be ripped out
ready to die to
show you
how much

and you just looked
not getting it
impatient
to go inside
and get your coat to leave

my thoughts were like a bone scraped against concrete
etching desperate symbols to hold you
but you didn't believe
and were only slightly amused

so I gave up
hate waiting patiently
watched you walk away
as the moon disappeared behind the clouds
and I stood there
nowhere
wondering what it was
that had me so afraid of being alone
to love you

Copyright 2006 Eric Nunnally (11.27.06)

Blind First

Words having become heavy
We sat barefoot beside the ocean
Caressed by the quiet of God
Shore soothing us

Your eyelashes feathered the glowing sky
Stoking embers within me
Restless, determined to stay beside you
On the chance a dream betrayed itself
To me

A fool
I wanted to rest inside of you
Day-dreaming your affection
Quenching my thirst
Squeezing life into a drink of water

Spilled purposefully
An offering
Our wetness familiar
Enjoyed
Wanted

Smoothing my hand over the water
I found your thigh
Melted into the strength of my grip
Trembling painfully
The kiss of my fingertips warmed
By breaths rising from your arousal

Sunset lingered, unsure
Last look upon a favorite danger
Fragile moments easily killed with unbridled desire
Aching along millimeters of chemistry
I begged, burning with hope
As you watched me

And then your movements said yes
Eyes fixed on mine
With full knowing you slew me
Tender touch of your lips upon my mouth

Even as my heart caked and bled
My soul seemed embalmed in the scent of your hair
How easily I suffered
Tasting the sweet spice of your attention


Copyright 2006 Eric Nunnally (10.10.06)