Outside of Us

It was two days past the 6th of the 5th month, and I feel I’m still in the same day, with you.

Cozy amber scents wafting from candles burning to the quick, dim lighting.
I’m inviting.

You’re here.
You’re here in my mix.

Day dreaming off and on.
It feels like the same day.
We’re repeating our drastic measures, keeping each other alive.
We’re taking our time.

There were no blue lights, only flames, blankets and fighting the need to sleep.
Slipping by 2 a.m., we resist to succumb to anything outside of us.

4 responses to “Outside of Us”

Woodsy

August 5, 2020 at 1:03 pm

So I’m back in that small place,
doing what I just can’t do –

being all these little things
in all these little rooms.

I wish I could hold on,
find a me I could light, like a candle wick, woven out of words.

But right now,
all I can see is a hug,
like a smoke ring,
drifting in space…
small but unbearably precious around all the colours I have lost
and every silhouette I ever found.

I’d like to hug it back
’til my fingertips crack their way through all the stained-glass panels at the core of the galaxy.

You know I love you, simply for turning –
like a wheel in me, made from a billion candles…

and feeling something that lives and breathes so powerfully in these places…

these places where everything comes crashing down.

It’s like trying to swim inside yourself without any gills…
plugging into the streetlight
for something with which to light the silence.

I used to set
torchfires
on the water
with those street lamps.

Honest I did.

So how do you do it now?
How do you do it here?

Drawing hope
into a world made of such shitty paper?

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1. BrittnyLee
  
  August 5, 2020 at 9:16 pm
  
  Wow this is stunning ♡ this brought tears to my eyes . 🙂 you’re amazing John. Always know that. You inspire so many .
  
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  1. Woodsy
    
    August 5, 2020 at 9:25 pm
    
    Massive hugs to a massive poetic inspiration
    
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  2. BrittnyLee
    
    August 6, 2020 at 12:13 am
    
    Aw thank you so much . You too John. Always my bro !
    
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