Empty Pillows

[philrose]

In my sleep I speak to you and your name sounds so beautiful
I lay my head on empty pillows and reach for your absent body
long grows the night
I remember how your mouth eats at my body and how your dreams are wrapped in rainbows and sunlight
All these thoughts mean nothing without your breath beside me
I remember how I fall speechless when your eyelids open
Oh my love is far away and the night has barely broken
Even though your heart is distant, mine is not alone
for only strangers travel without love's throne
I deram of the nights I slept inside you
There is nothing emptier now than the empty pillow upon which your beauty rests
There is nothing more lonely than the heart that beats inside my breast
nothing more broken in mercy than crying leaves upon a weeping willow
Nothing more silent than an empty pillow

Nothing has changed my life more than you standing
waiting for me, where dust meets my shoe
Your restless breath leaves me numb and softer than a fallen crumb

I am waiting for ancient ceremony to begin
I am longing for your lips upon my skin
For when the moonlight covers up my chin
my fingers tremble for your golden ring
And the troubadour plays his antique strings
Fallen is his minor chord
The wind cuts round the mountain so broad
but the wind cannot move the mountain, for love is the mightier sword

I live for the smell of your hair
I have promised you my body
You are the reason my eyes stare

I first saw you in Amsterdam and I bent like an old widow

You are as perfect as autumn leaves, perfect as the heart I wear on my sleeve

In the bar the meloncholy minstrel puts down an old lament
I remember you, between the drunken candles
The ones I lit to forget my statues of regret
You are the reason for the man that I have become

I left my fingerprints upon your breasts, I touched you often
I touch you in secret
I was the wetness in your groin
You are the reason why my eyes wept
Empty pillows is why I have not slept

My past is in debt to you
I am with you still, from you alone comes a light that is everlasting
You are the harvest of my defeat
You are the reason of my retreat
You are the reason why I'm humble
You are the reason why I rise when I stumble
You are the reason why the night is so long
and why I can't sleep with empty pillows

[mickey_one]

now I see you do longer pieces as well! I am very willing to crit. this if you are interested. Let me know.